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“Increased awareness of the place for surgery within global health will not only benefit the surgical community, but will improve health outcomes, strengthen health systems, and reduce health inequities and local and global scale.” – The Lancet (2014) Global health addresses the needs of a community by evaluating the social, economic, political and environmental factors…
You’d expect red wine to make remembering harder not easier, but in fact it helps prevent age related memory decline, according to new research. Scientists at Texas A&M say it’s all down to the wonder antioxidant resveratrol, also found in the skin of red grapes, some berries and peanuts. Ashok K Shetty, a professor at…
As you know, being a Doctor is really enriching, rewarding work – yet there are sometimes sacrifices we doctors have to make in the world of healing and helping others become well again. Irrespective as to whether or not you’re a consultative or a more procedural doctor, there is ample time constantly spent on exams…
I recently came across a group of surgeons at a local hospital and spent a day with them observing bariatric surgery which included Lap Band insertion and Gastric Bypasses. This made me realise something important about the stigma attached to obesity, willpower and people’s perceptions. Obesity is all around us and it is on the…