Cathie Pilkington RA at the Royal Society of Medicine
Earlier this week Professor Cathie Pilkington RA delivered the Royal Society of Medicine’s 2018 annual arts, society and medicine lecture to a packed auditorium of...
How Vitamin D works
We talk a lot about how important vitamin D is for our overall health, but how does vitamin D work? Check out this fun cartoon...
Recent developments in digital health
Everyone is talking about digital health, but what sorts of things does it include? Telemedicine is the real time interactions between patient and doctors using...
Time to talk about Raynaud’s disease
Around 10 million people in the UK suffer from Raynaud’s disease, which affects blood circulation, causes some areas of the body, such as fingers and...
How do nurses say goodbye?
In nursing there are many ways of saying goodbye when the therapeutic relationship ends. Some patients bid a cheery goodbye, cherishing their restored health, even...
Augmented reality helps surgeons ‘see through’ tissue
Using augmented reality in the operating theatre could help surgeons to improve the outcome of reconstructive surgery for patients. In a series of procedures carried...
Lung disease piling on the pressure in A&E
The perennial outrage over emergency winter pressure in NHS hospitals is now subsiding. As usual, we have seen the blame game and finger-wagging headlines about...
Brexit could disrupt medical supplies
Patients could find that supplies of their medicines will be disrupted when the UK leaves the EU, according to the Brexit Health Alliance in a...
Bad sleep has massive impact on lives
Unhealthy food choices, rows with partners and short attention spans are among the most common knock-on effects of a bad sleep, according to a study....
Why do we fail to reach our fitness goals?
When it comes to attaining our fitness goals, our willpower only seems to last a few weeks. According to the Fitness Industry Association, about 12%...
