Kindness for Mental Health Awareness Week 2020

Ted talk

Did you know that kindness can be beneficial for our mental health? Kindness Matters – Mental Health Foundation – Mental Health Awareness Week 2020 […]

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Covid-19 detection dogs

Medical Detection Dogs have proved that dogs can detect #Parkinsons, #malaria, #cancer .  They are now training them to join the fight against #Coronavirus. Together with their collaborators London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Graduate Studies and Durham University they believe they can make this happen, and if you can support this work please […]

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The Duchess of Cambridge speaks with midwives about mental health

Duchess of Cambridge

https://youtu.be/rRYrGsBKKk8 The Duchess of Cambridge speaks with midwives and parents at Kingston Hospital in London via video chat about the importance of mental health. […]

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Make May Purple for the Stroke Association

The Stroke Association

Make May Purple is the Stroke Association fundraising and awareness campaign that coincides with National Stroke Awareness month. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is a difficult and worrying time for everyone. It suddenly turned our lives upside down and has affected people emotionally. Isolation can be especially difficult for stroke survivors and their families.  The Stroke […]

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VE day celebrations in the streets

The Hippocratic Post - Fighting Fit

What a day it must have been!  75 years on and hopefully we will once more be celebrating victory together in the streets over a very different kind of war. Watch this show reel from Imperial War Museum – VE Day, 8 May 1945 was a day to celebrate. Victory in Europe Day marked the […]

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Remembering the courageous nurses of ANZAC

As Australians and New Zealanders come together, exercising social distancing measures on their doorsteps this Saturday at dawn, we remember the harrowing and dramatic stories of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War this Anzac Day. An introduction by Peter Rees to his book The Other Anzacs: Nurses at war […]

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Webinar on Avoiding Intubation and Initial Ventilation in COVID19

Webinar on Avoiding Intubation and Initial Ventilation in COVID19. EMCrit explore an obsession with Critical Care and Resuscitation. Editor in Chief: Scott Weingart […]

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Does COVID-19 really cause ARDS?

Opinion from the field: I am a physician Cameron Kyle-Sidell has been working at the bedside of COVID-19 patients in NYC. I believe we are treating the wrong disease and that we must change what we are doing if we want to save as many lives as possible. I welcome any feedback, especially from those […]

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