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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The current epidemic of knife crime in the UK raises a number of issues surrounding causation, prevention, and from a medical point of view, dealing with the casualties. Knife crime in the UK is becoming a big public issue. England and Wales have seen the largest recorded increase of 22% – this figure was revealed amid […]
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 […]
When managing long-term pain in the pain clinic, we rely on all our skills as doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and so on. We use our skills, which are mostly based in mainstream, ‘Western’ disciplines, to best effect, yet sometimes we can feel limited in what our conventional approaches can achieve for our patients. On 25th […]
Dr Taha Huda, a member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s sexuality and sexual health council, was one of the speakers against the motion at the recent Hippocratic Post debate The end of HIV? It is my privilege to take part in this debate: The End of HIV? Firstly, it is important to consider the […]
Dr Yusef Azad spoke compellingly at the Hippocratic Post debate, the end of HIV?, on the issues of stigma and discrimination faced by people living with HIV. ‘In the end, of course, everything ends – that is trivially true. The interesting question for us to debate for the HIV epidemic is whether the end is […]
Dr Emma Vardy is speaking today at the Royal Society of Medicine’s meeting, People ‘need’ pets: exploring the psycho-social benefits of the human/animal relationship. ‘We know that animals can be beneficial when it comes to improving mental health and wellbeing. Therapy dogs, which are specially selected and trained because of their calm, placid natures, are […]
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It’s just common sense that doctors who have empathy make better doctors. However, until now, the benefit to patients has not been quantified, which makes it difficult for doctors and quality controllers to put a value on being nice. For our research paper, which is published in the latest issue of the Journal of the […]