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<title><![CDATA[AI: Doctors risk being sued if tools go wrong, while companies are &#x201C;shielded,&#x201D; report warns]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Doctors are being left exposed to legal claims by a “widening gulf” between the law and the rapidly changing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, the Medical Protection Society (MPS) has warned.In its report Closing the AI Liability Gap,1 the medical defence organisation said that doctors and the NHS were currently expected to absorb all legal responsibility for AI use in healthcare, while AI companies were “shielded.”Under the current legislative framework doctors could be held wholly liable if an AI suggestion turns out to be wrong and they have followed it, said the MPS. At the same time, if doctors “reject an AI output and things go wrong, there is a real and significant risk that they could face allegations of negligence.”As AI systems are not clearly defined as “products,” manufacturers and suppliers may not face the same consequences that apply when a defective product is found to have...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Elisabeth Mahase]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[AI: Doctors risk being sued if tools go wrong, while companies are &#x201C;shielded,&#x201D; report warns]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Victims of war: Women seek refuge to deliver their babies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[bmj;393/jun09_11/e950313/FAF1faCaitlin Kelly/APA group of Sudanese refugees wait for prenatal consultations in the Birao District Hospital in Central African Republic (CAR).The women are among the 36 414 refugees who have fled civil war at home. Having survived displacement, they face further health risks, as women in CAR are 138 times as likely to die in childbirth as in the European Union.1 The country's fragile healthcare has been further undermined by UK, US, and other countries' overseas aid cuts.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alison Shepherd]]></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2026-06-09T08:21:07-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Victims of war: Women seek refuge to deliver their babies]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Partha Kar: NHS workforce planning is missing clarity and direction]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The healthcare workforce has been in constant flux in recent years. Besides conversations about the next version of the workforce plan due this year, some other recent developments are interlinked but make little sense in isolation.Steps have been taken to reduce reliance on international medical graduates, possibly on the assumption that UK graduates would eventually meet workforce needs. In the meantime, roles such as physician assistants and other non-doctor positions may have been expected to fill gaps, particularly in areas that attract fewer UK graduates. The idea seems to be that domestic graduates could focus on specialties and locations of their choice, while other healthcare professionals take on service heavy roles that were traditionally staffed by international doctors. This approach may reflect miscalculations about workforce supply and demand.The Medical Training (Prioritisation) Act becoming law means that UK graduates will be prioritised over international graduates for medical training posts.1 I suspect...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Partha Kar]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Partha Kar: NHS workforce planning is missing clarity and direction]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[The sperm racing world cup - how male fertility is becoming a sport]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a world cup of everything these daysIt's a fair point. Footballers will shortly be battling it out for the 18 carat solid gold Fifa World Cup trophy across North America, but participants in this slightly more fringe event will be competing for a $100 000 grand prize in late 2026 (https://www.spermracing.com/).A nice boost for the (sperm) bank balanceIndeed. Sperm racing describes itself as a “science based competitive sport.” Semen samples from participants representing 128 countries will be tested and “raced” against each other on a microscopic track that mimics the reproductive system to compete for the prize.Ex-sperminating the opposition?In a manner of speaking, yes. The sperm that crosses the finish line first wins, verified by advanced imaging, with high resolution cameras used to track every move.How did this all come about?It was established by a group of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs, including teenage founder Eric Zhu, with the idea...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gareth Iacobucci]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[The sperm racing world cup - how male fertility is becoming a sport]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Trump: Diabetes doctors ejected from conference for handing out paper criticising US administration]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Police in New Orleans forcibly removed1 five diabetes experts from the American Diabetes Association (ADA) annual conference for distributing an editorial2 published in the association's journal. The paper criticised US President Donald Trump for dismantling and destroying biomedical research in the country.Louisiana State Police confiscated the doctors' conference identification and forbid them from returning to the meeting. They escorted the protesters from the event peacefully. No one was arrested.“They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference centre, and now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting,” said Aaron Kelly, co-director of the Centre for Paediatric Obesity Medicine and professor of paediatrics at the University of Minnesota, who was one of those ejected.“It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real,” he told the Washington Post, adding that his comments did not represent the views of his institution.3The ADA said in a statement to...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janice Hopkins Tanne]]></dc:creator>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Trump: Diabetes doctors ejected from conference for handing out paper criticising US administration]]></dc:title>
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<title><![CDATA[Five year old girl was left &#x201C;traumatised&#x201D; and in pain after physician assistant wrongly prescribed vaginal pessary]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A 5 year old girl in England was left bleeding, traumatised, and screaming with pain after a physician associate (PA; now known as a physician assistant) wrongly prescribed a pessary to treat itching and vaginal discharge, an investigation by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman has found.1Vaginal pessaries should not be used in prepubescent children, but a GP authorised the prescription on the basis of the PA's recommendation, and a pharmacy dispensed the pessary without questioning it.In March 2023 the girl's mother, named as Mrs N, took her daughter, H, to their general practice in the East Midlands. She saw a PA her mother thought was a GP, who suspected that H had thrush. The PA opted for a clotrimazole pessary (an antifungal) and cream.In fact, said the ombudsman's report, H's symptoms were consistent with paediatric vulvovaginitis, not usually caused by yeast infections such as thrush, which are rare in...]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clare Dyer]]></dc:creator>
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