Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing

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Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing Living Better, Living Longer by Cassandra Szoeke: The research-based approach to ageing well Secrets of Women’s Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international […]

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Invitation to A-A Heart Rhythm Congress 2021

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Arrhythmia Alliance Heart Rhythm Congress 2021 (A-A HRC 2021) — all at a touch of a button, available on-demand at a time to suit you no matter where you are in the world — is for all those interested in expanding their knowledge of cardiac arrhythmias and is worth up to 24 CPD points. A-A […]

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Holiday reading recommendations

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What’s a summer holiday without a good summer reading list – Rebecca Wallersteiner recommends some exciting new titles to cram into your suitcase: Summer holidays are upon us and an abundance of compelling newly published books to choose from. From When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, a non-fiction novel meditating on […]

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How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly – Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

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  Discover how mRNA vaccines help your immune system fight viral infections and how this decades-old technology was used to create COVID-19 vaccines. — In the 20th century, most vaccines took over a decade to research, test, and produce. But the vaccines for COVID-19 were cleared for emergency use in less than 11 months. The […]

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Messenger apps and patient confidentiality

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Messenger apps and patient confidentiality – what every healthcare professional should know: Three years after GDPR rules were launched, many healthcare professionals are still failing to comply when sharing clinical data via instant messaging The global pandemic has provided a catalyst for the adoption of specialist digital communications tools which enable secure information sharing and faster decision-making. Siilo […]

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Easing dementia’s burden on Indigenous Australians

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Easing dementia’s burden on Indigenous Australians: Improving the impact of high dementia rates on Indigenous Australians and communities is the focus of a University of Queensland-led telehealth project with a global track record of success. Partnering with the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council and Metro South Health, DementiaECHO is facilitating ‘round-table’ learning between Indigenous health services […]

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Medical Law: In Conversation with James Badenoch QC

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James Badenoch QC, Barrister and member of 1 Crown Office Row, will be joining Professor Roger Kirby, RSM President, for a conversation about his career in law, handling high-profile clinical negligence, medical law and medical discipline cases, and how COVID-19 has had an impact on patient safety and highlighted medico-legal issues within the NHS. Instead […]

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Ultrasound stimulation slows dementia degeneration

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Ultrasound brain stimulation slows dementia-related brain degeneration: The Transcranial Pulse Stimulation with ultrasound (TPS) technique developed at MedUni Vienna under the lead of neuroscientist Roland Beisteiner from the Department of Neurology can be used in various neuropsychiatric brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. It improves brain function by externally activating still-functioning neurons. It has […]

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