In the United Kingdom and the United States, alternatives to western medicine have become increasingly popular in recent years. Likewise, in Hong Kong, ‘alternative medicine’ is gaining popularity, although Hong Kong has always had a major alternative to western medicine in the form of traditional Chinese medicine. Can a physician in Hong Kong incorporate alternative medicine into the practice ...

Objectives: Medicine shortages are a global phenomenon. A growing number of reports indicate the problem is increasingly affecting the European pharmaceutical market. The present study aims to investigate the characteristics, determinants, legal aspects and management of medicine shortages in Belgium, France and from the perspective of the European Union. MethOds: A review of scientific and gre...

1Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Ospedale Colonnello D’Avanzo, Via degli Aviatori 1, 71100 Foggia, Italy 2Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina Elena 336, 0016 Rome, Italy 3University Center of Legal Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, chemin de la...

The late 19th-century discovery of X-rays befuddled not only the scientific world but also the medical and legal worlds. The possibility of looking into the human body as if through an open window challenged the time-honored medical monopoly over the inner cavities of the human body. Likewise, the possibility of visualizing objects unavailable to the naked eye challenged the established legal t...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long history of medicine. The principles derived from core Islamic teachings provide a comprehensive moral, ethical, and legal framework for the practice of medicine. The issue of brain death has significant impact on the procurement of organs from cadavers. It is a major subject of debate and interest to bioscientists, legal experts, religious scholars, and t...

Department of Legal Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Department of Forensic Medicine, National Institute of Scientific Investigation, Seou...

Suicide with One Cranial Gunshot by a .320 Caliber Pocket Revolver Lucia Tattoli1*, Saskia Sabrina Etzold2, Michael Tsokos2, Lars Oesterhelweg2, Sven Hartwig2 1 Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Turin, Corso Galileo Galilei 22, 10126, Torino, Italy 2 Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, University Medical Centre Charité, Universit...

great value to the student of legal medicine. It is in fact such a book as Coull Mackenzie, if his life had been spared, might have written after long service as Police Surgeon, Calcutta. The volume deals with parts of the subject of forensic medicine which are alwajTs inadequately dealt with in ordinary treatises on legal medicine. The first part deals very fully with the phenomena of death, t...