Saliha is a patient at MSF’s women’s health clinic in Kamrangirchar, a densely populated slum in the south of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. She has survived abuse first from her father and then from her husband. She is, in some ways, typical of the women who come to the clinic. “Before, I had no […]
Volunteers at Doctors of the World help child refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq as well as Libya, Eritrea and Somalia. Dr Sarah Dickson will be speaking on their behalf at the upcoming Royal Society of Medicine conference, The Challenges of Child Refugee Health: Everyone’s responsibility. It will take place in London on Tuesday […]
All around the country – in health centres, schools and even old phone boxes – public access defibrillators are being installed to help people treat cardiac arrest. But would you be brave enough to actually use one in a real-life emergency? According to a study led the University of Warwick, many people are reluctant to […]
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The Rosetrees Trust is a unique charity which works on the basis of venture philanthropy for medical research. In other words, we invest relatively small sums for big ideas and help cutting edge projects get off the ground. Thirty years after the charity was established by my parents on the occasion of their Golden Wedding Anniversary […]
AIDS continues to kill: one million people died of the disease last year. The death rate remains shockingly high despite the availability of antiretroviral drugs, used by more than 15 million people around the world. […]
How did Diana learn to become the ‘Queen of Hearts’ for the marginalised and unloved? Nurse Helen Cowan says she has met nurses and carers who shared her endless empathy born out of personal suffering. In the controversial Channel 4 documentary, “Diana: In her own words”, the Princess was portrayed as somebody more comfortable sitting […]
Dorothea Crewdson, a Red Cross nurse, was given instructions to leave for northern France in 1915. She spent the next four years as a witness to some of the worst horror of the Great War, yet her diaries, with their beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, sparkle with warmth and humour. #Passchendaele100 […]
Neurology trainee Dr Smriti Agarwal, awarded an Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship in December 2016, has recently moved to Sydney, Australia for a post-doctoral position. She will be working with Professor Matthew Kiernan and Professor John Hodges, who run a world class collaborative research programme in neurodegenerative disorders at the Sydney Brain […]
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New figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have revealed that more nurses and midwives are leaving the profession in the UK than joining it for the first time on record, with the number departing having risen by 51% in just four years. Earlier this year the Health Service Journal reported that 96% of hospitals […]
For many years, I have worked with and supported an independent non-governmental organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors Without Borders) which is passionate about what it does, taking medical care to different parts of the world in need. There have been many times when we have felt the need to communicate our message about our work […]
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