On Thursday 17 January five young doctors, including Dr Peter Jenkins, will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM Trainee of the Year. RSM Clinical Neurosciences Section Presentation title: Dopaminergic abnormalities following traumatic brain injury: A targeted approach to treating cognitive impairments. Route into neurology Dr Peter Jenkins studied medicine as a postgraduate at […]
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On Thursday 17 January five young doctors will compete for the coveted title of Wesleyan RSM trainee of the year. RSM Surgery Section Presentation title: A gremlin in the works: Reduced expression of bone morphogenetic protein antagonist Gremlin aids breast cancer progression Special interest in breast surgery Miss Catherine Zabkiewicz studied medicine at Guy’s King’s and St.Thomas’ School of Medicine and is a trainee […]
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Yoga is an eight-part system which influences the whole person, mind and body. It is an ancient practice which incorporates different elements such as physical postures, which may be held for a long period of time, to breath control, mindfulness and a code of ethics. The ethos behind yoga is to be compassionate and kind […]
Professor Alison Fiander, former clinical lead of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist’s Centre for Women’s Global Health and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Cardiff University, will be giving a talk on global gynaecology in the developing world at the evening event, Global Medicine and Women’s Health, to be held at the Royal […]
Dr Richard Graham is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Good Thinking: The London Digital Mental Well-being Service, who will be talking on the subject of surviving and thriving in the digital age at the upcoming Royal Society of Medicine meeting, Digital mental health for children and young people on Monday 3rd December. Social media […]
The growing workload crisis in NHS primary care could be helped by the systematic integration of community health workers at scale, a study shows. Published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the modelling study was led by researchers at Imperial College London. Using a model introduced in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy, they […]
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Not just what you eat but when you eat influences body weight. Some of the recent science relating to this topic are being explored on 12th November, 2018 at The Royal Society of Medicine: Chrono-Nutrition-circadian clocks, mealtimes and metabolic disorders meeting. When you wake up in the morning, do you think about what to eat for breakfast […]
Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH, thinks the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) has been well worth joining. Some years ago, I was invited to dine at a London club and, liking its professional atmosphere and indeed its siting in Wimpole Street, asked about the conditions of membership. “Doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeons”, I was told by my […]
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When it comes to various psychiatric illnesses migrants suffer more from conditions including depression and anxiety than the indigenous population of the new country. But it is hard to generalise because migrants are not a homogenous group and people may migrate for all sorts of reasons from political to personal, economic and social. The pop […]
Human beings are each colonised by trillions of bacteria living on surfaces such as the skin, the genitorurinary tract and the gut. Every individual has a unique microbiome which reflects diet, environment, medication and many other interactions. The microbiome plays a key role in helping to maintain our health and keeping us free from disease […]