Christmas is many things to many people. For some, it’s about family time, others good food and drink, for some it’s the gifts or traditions, the tree, or simply the children’s excitement. Whatever the best (or worst) bits of Christmas are for you, it is invariably stressful in the run up to Christmas and often […]
The Royal Society of Medicine and ITN Productions have launched ‘21st Century Healthcare,’ a news and current affairs-style programme which explores the need for a collaborative approach to medicine to encourage new thinking. The programme brings to life the solutions to some prominent healthcare issues. ‘21st Century Healthcare’ showcases clinicians, academics and innovators who are […]
No cash, no care is the reality for many patients in many countries around the world and it is harming the most vulnerable people including refugees, displaced people, pregnant women and children, says Medecins Sans Frontieres At a Malawian health care centre, a mother receives only half of the pills she needs to treat her […]
Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the beneficial health effects of exercise in older adults, according to new research. The findings, published today in The Lancet, show that short term exposure to air pollution in built up areas like London’s busy Oxford Street can prevent the positive effects on the […]
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Research has shown that 3,000 headaches occur every day per million people in the general population. This equates to over 190,000 headaches every day in the UK. The Migraine Trust states that migraines are the third most common disease in the world, with an estimated global prevalence of 14.7% (that’s around 1 in 7 people). […]
Pancreatic cancer is a truly tough challenge for researchers but a ‘back to basics’ approach to pancreatic cancer research can save more lives . The disease has the lowest survival rate of the 20 most common cancers, and less than seven per cent of patients in the UK will live beyond five years. Survival rates […]
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Today, on World AIDS Day, Dr Huda Taha, consultant HIV physician and member of the RSM’s Sexuality and Sexual Health Council, discusses the global picture of HIV infection. Approximately 36.7 million people live with HIV. People accessing antiretroviral therapy (ARV) has increased abruptly from 7.5 million (2010) to 17.0 million (2015). HIV treatment prevented an […]
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Over the last few years we have begun to see some amazing news from London’s largest sexual health clinic. At 56 Dean Street there has been an 80% fall in the number of new HIV diagnoses since 2015 – something they’ve put down to intensive testing, high levels of people living with HIV being on […]
I’ve always advocated that people should be open about their HIV status, not least because it helps them access the support and help they may need, but also because it allows everyone else to see what it means to live with HIV today. Since my diagnosis, I have become a stronger person and I’ve paid […]
We are all born with an innate loving instinct, argued Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, but anger and hostility arise when the individuals need for love is unmet, frustrated, or hindered. That view has been tempered by modern understanding of the human genome that reveals there are specific genes that increase the risk of […]