A surgeon's diary from Gaza: 'Conditions are filthy. Everything is infected' telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

Congratulations to colleagues NIHR Global Surgery . We Medical and Dental Research (UoB) Institute of Applied Health Research are very proud of what you and your collaborators have achieved in the last seven years or so.

In the last 20 years, I kept thinking that the obesity situation in the US could not possibly get any worse. But...
cdc.gov/obesity/data/p…

Hallelujah. Outside Horizon, UK scientific research would survive but would be much the poorer.

'medical education as a field should lead the way when it comes to integrating AI into clinical practice... If we don’t shape our own future, powerful technology companies will happily shape it for us.' nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Great thread. As recent as 20+ years ago, what we might have done would be listing ten things that authorities (mostly white males) in vascular surgery believed. 😂

Little more than lip service is paid to prevention. We are already paying for the consequences already but we are going to be hit by even larger tsunamis.

Congratulations Punith Kempegowda We Institute of Applied Health Research Medical and Dental Research (UoB) are very proud of your achievement.

This problem will not be solved by building hospitals or recruiting doctors or AI or miracle drugs, important though these are.

We need sensible public health policies directed at preventing illness. Or we’ll be swept away by costs of chronic disease.

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People who use clinical prediction models should try to understand the key principles described in this interesting paper.

Opioids no better than placebo in acute back pain.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

'Betting company logos appear as often as 3,500 times during the course of a televised football match...
This disgusting level of gambling advertising around football stadiums is a national shame...'
Rich EPL clubs with the worst possible form of greed.

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We are pleased to invite you to the first NIHR Global Surgery Unit Sustainability in Surgery Conference 2023!

This will be a unique opportunity to gain training and discuss research in sustainable surgery.

Don't miss out, get your ticket today!

tinyurl.com/greengsu

We Institute of Applied Health Research Medical and Dental Research (UoB) are extremely proud of our three new graduates, who despite their youth and short careers to date, have already made huge contributions to surgical science in global settings. Many congratulations 🎉

Many research funding bodies require applicants to include a summary of their proposal in lay language. In the past many applicants did poorly but hopefully things would improve with the use of AI.

We asked young people: what questions do you wish your parents asked you? This is what they said.

1/ Where is a place you feel safe?
2/ How do you feel about growing up?
3/ Is there anyone who is upsetting you?
4/ What are you most dreading this week?
5/ What difficulties are

Lazy Sunday? Check out the new The Lancet Comment on the future of surgical research. (Lancet Comments=brill format).

Surgery can become 'a leader in medical specialties...a fundamental element of universal health care...and deliver major improvements in population health'

Proud beyond words of the work of colleagues from Uni of Birmingham
Medical and Dental Research (UoB) IMSR Institute of Applied Health Research Partnering with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gates Foundation , implementation of the intervention would have huge impact .