NHS warning to staff on ‘discouraging first cousin marriage’: Is it medically justified?
NHS warning to staff about ‘discouraging cousin marriages’: is it medically justified? National Health Services staff have been issued a warning by the government-funded NHS Monitoring Board, urging them to ‘stop discouraging cousin marriages’. According to the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), which briefed staff on the policy on cousin marriages, it stated: “It is…

