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BMA - Tuesday 29 June 2004 (2428 words) |
 | BMA committee for public health medicine and community health chairman Peter Tiplady said public health doctors were doing a ‘tremendous job’ despite the break-up of the specialty by the changes to health authorities and primary care in England. |
| BMA medical academic staff committee chairman Michael Rees told the ARM of a meeting he recently attended with a group of predominantly female, high-flying senior academics in critical specialties such as paediatrics and obstetrics. |
| BMA armed forces committee deputy chairman Martin Daly said some trusts were already offering this, but the association should lobby the Department of Health to ensure it happened nationwide. |
| British Doctors Call for Halt to GM Crop Trials (1122 words) |
| The BMA’s answer to the Committee’s question as to whether the Executive should prevent GM crops trials from continuing on the grounds that it is against the precautionary principle was a resounding "Yes". |
| Currently, the BMA said that not enough is known to give an accurate risk assessment of the health impact of GM crops on the health of local communities. |
| The BMA asserted that there is evidence that these genes may be transferred to non-GM plants and that there is significant risk of antibiotic resistance transferring "possibly into pathogenic organisms causing human disease". |
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