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Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Lancet paper was eventually judged fraudulent, retracted, and found to involve ethical breaches and conflicts of interest that produced measurable public harm — facts that expl...
The disclosure of children’s medical information in the UK is governed by a layered framework of data-protection law, common-law confidentiality and professional guidance that centres on capacity, par...
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) found that Dr Tom Gilhooly’s prescribing breached accepted standards of care by using unlicensed or off‑label medicines without adequate consideration...
The General Medical Council (GMC) Fitness to Practise hearings concluded that Andrew Wakefield engaged in serious professional misconduct: his 1998 Lancet study was conducted and reported in breach of...
A small group of judicial decisions — some domestic, some from the European Court of Human Rights — have become touchstones for how free speech is balanced against harm and regulation on social media ...
Search results do not locate any record of a “Dr Joyce Alexander” serving as an Associate Specialist in haematology at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow in the 1980s. Available sources mention ...