* gender and sexuality
A senior professor of old-age psychiatry has branded the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ (RCPsych) approach to the Assisted Dying Bill ‘inconsistent with the college membership’. Baroness Elaine Murphy, a prominent medical member of the House of Lords, has added her voice to a growing number of RCPsych members, including a former college president and vice-president,… Read more »
The House of Lords Select Committee on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life Bill) held the first oral evidence sessions today, where it heard overwhelmingly that patient choice and autonomy are enhanced by the introduction of assisted dying. The Bill sponsors and three representatives from Royal Colleges all said that patients will be able… Read more »
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Oscar Pistorius girlfriend, Reeva Steekamp, has been killed. But that doesn’t stop the Sun newspaper using her for titillation now that fear of Leveson is fading.
The Sun stoked outrage over its treatment of women today after editors put a picture of murdered model Reeva Steenkamp, girlfriend of South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, in swimwear on its front page.
