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THE University of Sunderland is set to build a multi-million pound facility to help train the medical professionals of tomorrow using human tissue. Sunderland City Council has granted planning permission for a new ‘cadaveric centre’ at the university’s city campus and work is expected to start in around six weeks. When completed, the centre will be key to the newly-established School of Medicine, provide training for other students within the Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing and offer vital facilities and benefits to surgeons and surgical trainees in the region. The late...

The recent release of the report of a panel of inquiry that probed the affairs of the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) and the subsequent removal of its President and four members by the Minister of Health has brought to the surface many problems concerning this important statutory body. It is well known that the inquiry was initiated by a complaint made by the office-bearers of a powerful trade union who happen to be members of the council. Many deficiencies, shortcomings and irregularities in the report itself have been exposed. The impartiality of the inquiring panel has also come into que...