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Practice management: One of my employees is pregnant – what do we both need to do?

Employment law adviser Janice Sibbald offers advice on the responsibilities of both employer and employee during pregnancy.

  • 23 August 2022
  • Article
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q3

Dental case study: Persistent gingival swelling

...Mrs L, a smoker, presents with painful swollen gums, bleeding and swollen lymph nodes, and the dentist suspects periodontal infection...

  • 23 August 2022
  • Case study
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q3

Book choice: Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine

Book review of Hybrid Humans - Dispatches from the frontiers of man and machine

  • 23 August 2022
  • Article
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q3

Ethics: A girl I used to know - on Derry Girls and ethical development

Professor Deborah Bowman watches hit TV series Derry Girls and reflects on the way our values and ethical principles develop from childhood to adulthood.

  • 23 August 2022
  • Article
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q3

Vignette: John T Shepherd (1919-2011)

Leading figure in cardiovascular physiology.

  • 23 August 2022
  • Article
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q3

Professional pitfalls in social media use

Risk adviser Kay Louise Grant highlights the importance of being aware of professional expectations on how we behave online.

  • 23 August 2022
  • Article
  • Insight - Dental
  • Q3

Majority of symptomatic Covid-19 patients still infectious after five days

TWO-THIRDS of symptomatic Covid-19 patients are still infectious five days after their symptoms begin, according to the first “real-world” study into the disease onset.

  • 22 August 2022
  • News

Tackling backlog in bowel screening

A BACKLOG of patients waiting for colonoscopies as part of the NHS bowel screening programme could be tackled by raising the threshold at which patients are invited for more in-depth investigations, according to new research.

  • 22 August 2022
  • News

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Notice is hereby given of the one hundred and nineteenth Annual General Meeting of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland

  • 15 August 2022
  • MDDUS Update

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