Published 25 August 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b3459
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3459

News

In brief

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

US workplace suicides rose by 28% from 2007 to 2008: Of the 5071 deaths that occurred in the workplace in the United States in 2008, 251 were suicides, up from 196 the year before, figures from the US Department of Labor show. Redundancies, reduced working hours, and financial distress as a result of the recession have been blamed for the rise in suicides. The total number of workplace deaths in 2008 was the lowest number since tracking began in 1982, largely because of a fall in fatal injuries among construction workers, again because of the recession, the department says.

GP is found guilty of "hazardous" prescribing: Jane Barton has been found guilty by the General Medical Council of widely prescribing powerful painkillers and sedatives to elderly patients under her care at Gosport War Memorial Hospital that were "inappropriate, hazardous, and not in their best interests." The GMC’s fitness to practise . . . [Full text of this article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to StumbleUpon StumbleUpon   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?

Access jobs at BMJ Careers
Whats new online at Student BMJ