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Iran: WHO calls for protection for health workers as conflict sweeps the Middle East

British Medical Journal - Vie, 06/03/2026 - 11:46

Health workers and facilities have come under attack across the Middle East as conflict engulfs the region, health leaders and charities warn.The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the World Health Organization have urged restraint, with the escalating situation threatening to collapse already fragile healthcare systems.Fighting involving Iran, Israel, and armed groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon has intensified in recent days following joint US-Israeli air strikes on Iran on 28 February that killed the nation’s supreme leader, ??Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Israel carried out further air strikes on Iran and on Hezbollah positions in Beirut on 4 March, while a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, killing 87.1Iran and Hezbollah have fired rockets and drones at countries across the region in retaliation, with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatening on 4 March the “complete destruction of the region’s military and economic...

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Trump’s glyphosate order infuriates MAHA movement, leaving RFK Jr exposed

British Medical Journal - Vie, 06/03/2026 - 11:16

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aiming to increase domestic production of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, sold as Roundup.1Trump’s 18 February order comes under a national security justification for increasing US production of glyphosate for food security. It grants immunity under compliance with the Defense Production Act, which generally protects parties from liability for actions taken to comply with orders under the act, though it does not provide blanket product liability immunity.But the move has brought angry accusations of betrayal from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement and placed its founder, US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, in the awkward position of defending a product he has long condemned.Roundup is made by Bayer, which acquired the original manufacturer Monsanto in 2018. The pesticide has been the subject of tens of thousands of lawsuits, many from users who claim to have developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma as result of...

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Charles Polkey: neurosurgeon and pioneer of the surgical treatment of epilepsy

British Medical Journal - Vie, 06/03/2026 - 11:16

bmj;392/mar06_3/s439/FAF1faWhen the powers that be at King’s College Hospital told neurosurgeon Charles Polkey that it had decided to name a ward after him he was initially reluctant to accept the honour. He only relented after his wife, Maureen, told him he should do so as he had devoted his life to the hospital. Polkey also reasoned that the recognition would highlight the good work of the unit to which he had been so dedicated.Polkey’s reserve was characteristic of a man who colleagues described as humble and quietly self-assured; while his work was internationally recognised, he had little ego or vanity.He undertook all forms of neurosurgery, including emergency paediatric neurosurgery, but was best known for his work in epilepsy surgery. He was appointed to the Maudsley Hospital as successor to Murray Falconer, who in the early 1970s had developed temporal lobectomy for the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Polkey built on Falconer’s...

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Conocimiento, colaboración y liderazgo en la batalla contra la infección y aparición de resistencias

Último número Revista Medicina Intensiva - Vie, 07/04/2023 - 22:15

F. Gordo Vidal
Med Intensiva. 2023;47:191-2

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