Published 3 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4541
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4541

News

In brief

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

Obama lifts ban on people with HIV entering US: From early 2010 people with HIV will no longer be barred from entering the United States, after Barack Obama completed an order initiated during George Bush’s administration. The US is one of a dozen countries that use HIV status to bar entry into the country. The ban has been in place for more than 20 years.

Swiss propose limiting assisted suicide: The Swiss government has outlined proposals to restrict assisted suicide to people with a terminal illness who have only months to live. Alternative draft bills have been drawn up, one with an outright ban and the other with the preferred option to tighten the rules. More than 115 British people, not all of them terminally ill, have travelled to Switzerland to end their lives.

Amnesty cites evidence of torture in Sudan: A Darfuri rebel who died of tuberculosis last week . . . [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