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Bloody Hell: Menstruation and the Challenges it Presents to Girls with ASD
Highlighting the experience of menstruation for girls and women with ASD and where medical care is currently lacking
How Cognitive Biases Shape Decisions in Emergency Medicine
Cognitive biases are everywhere in the emergency department. Learn how these undermine objective clinical decision making and what strategies could be designed to combat them.
What’s so Funny? Trauma, Psychosis, and the System That Broke Arthur Fleck
A thorough psychiatric formulation of the Joker. What parallels exists between this portrait of mental illness in film and the current state of the mental health care system in the NHS?
The Digital Dermatoscope: AI’s Accuracy in Detecting Lesions in Skin of Colour
Exploring how dermatology AI performs in diagnosing skin cancer in skin of colour (SOC), including the key limitations, advances, and equity concerns.
A Trip in the Clinic: Are Psychedelics the Future of Depression Treatment?
Psychedelic-assisted therapy is gaining an evidence base in the spotlight of psychiatric research. What unanswered questions remain, and how may psychedelic therapies impact models of healthcare?
Eugenics For Sale: The Ethical Considerations of CRISPR Technology
Exploring the ethical dilemmas around emerging gene editing technology
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