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Sophie makes high-risk return to war zone to highlight rape crisis The Duchess of Edinburgh watched Congo’s most famous surgeon operate on a five-year-old, just one of thousands of rape victims in the country

Harrowing read - @baprasvoice.bsky.social Iain Whitaker's valuable work in DRC highlighted www.thetimes.com/world/africa...

The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.

Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.

Anatomy of the face

“I cant feel my face when I’m with you…” well that’s great because as a head & neck surgeon I know exactly how to anaesthetise different parts of your face. Here’s a simplified section. Don’t cut this. Can’t cut that. #ENT #entsecrets #headandneck #surgery #surgeon

Join us on the 13th of October for Vital Organs🫀 book signing and talk with Suzie Edge!

Copies of ‘Vital Organs’ will be available for purchase and signing by the author on the night

🔗 For more info, and to purchase tickets: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

A blue-grey box with a Red Cross on it, which reads: "BLOOD TRANSFUSION SET."

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.

Between sutures and stereotypes: the unseen journey of women in surgery | The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England A surgeon traces her path from India to the UK, confronting bias, finding mentors, and asking how surgery might evolve to truly welcome women.

'Can we reimagine surgical culture? Not by lowering standards, but by widening the lens?'

Fabulous and wise words from Miss Rahi Karmarkar about how inclusion 'isn’t about being better or worse, but about being different in a way that strengthens the whole.'

👏👏👏 #ILookLikeASurgeon
#MedSky

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

Good luck to all those starting medical school this week

There will always be work for you, sadly unless our leaders get their act together it may not be in the #NHS or even the UK

Current lack of planning & funding by NHS England @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social DHSC means uncertainty

Are you fit to practise? | The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England A surgeon's journey through illness reveals that skill, compassion and resilience outlast even the steadiest hands.

'Some colleagues fear that a surgeon with a disability might compromise patient safety.... I argue the opposite: surgeons who have faced both sides of the operating table know suffering and recovery intimately.'

Well said, Mr Aftab. 👏 #TenCompetencies

publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10....

Women, tag yourselves by 1653 standards!

I've got the Surgery covered of course, but reckon I could also have a good go at Conceited Secrets 🤣

Winner of mRNA Nobel Prize says ACIP member’s claim that Covid vaccines persist is “absolutely impossible” In a Q&A with STAT, Nobel winner Drew Weissman addressed concerns raised about Covid shots at a recent meeting of federal vaccine advisers.

www.statnews.com/2025/09/20/d... #MedSky

Wishing a happy 93rd birthday to Indian pathologist and cytologist Usha Kehar Luthra, who for decades devoted herself to developing screening and services for cervical and oral cancer patients in India, training two generations of cytopathologists.

#WomenInSTEM #MedSky #Biology 🧪⚕️

carotid body tumour, vocal cord palsy post recurrent laryngeal nerve reinnervation, and a few others. #headandneck pathology is incredibly broad. #ENTsecrets #ENT #surgery #surgeon 2/2

In my urgent head & neck clinic recently I saw kids with rhabdomyosarcoma, orbital abscess post transnasal orbital decompression, laryngomalacia, mucocoele, mycobacterium avium complex, vascular anomaly, retropharyngeal abscess, parotid tumour… 1/2 #ENTsecrets #ENT #surgery #surgeon

Northampton research reveals origins of paediatric hospital care Research overturns the belief children did not receive hospital treatment until the Victorian era.

BBC coverage of research using Northampton General Hospital's archive:

Child hospital care dates from 18th Century:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The study itself is #OpenAccess:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#History #MedicalHistory

CBS Vice President Ruth Waters has co-authored a paper on systemic gender discrimination in UK surgery which has featured in this month’s The Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Read feature from page 298 here publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/epdf/10.... #UKsurgeons @rcsed.bsky.social

As a surgeon, the parent of a 12 year old with itchy nose expects me to be at my best as much as that necrotising fasciitis at 1am, or the inhaled foreign body at 3am or the airway obstruction at 4am or…

The cover for September's issue of the Bulletin, showing a purple ladder laid against the journal title, set on a blue background.

Our latest #Bulletin explores coaching for surgeons, reflections on recovery and research shaping surgical practice. We also examine the government’s 10-Year Health Plan and celebrate @WHO recognition for our Global Surgery Policy Unit.

Read full issue: ow.ly/VZLz50WPyly

Capsular contractures following implant-based breast reconstruction in women undergoing risk-reducing mastectomy: national register-based study The primary aim of this study was to establish the national incidence rate of severe capsular contracture requiring surgery following risk-reducing mastect

Capsular contractures following implant-based breast reconstruction in women undergoing risk-reducing mastectomy: national register-based study
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso...

@bjsacademy.bsky.social
@bjsurgery.bsky.social

It's about time the surgeons got some love! Continuing my updates on the @medsky.social feeds and the latest is a major overhaul of the curation lists and term maps for #Surgsky.

I'm slowly integrating a list of over 2400 surgery-related accounts to this feed, so you'll see higher post volume soon.

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NHS corridor care now year-round crisis in England, experts say Corridor care in the NHS is now a year-round crisis, experts have warned, as analysis showed nearly 3 million patients attended A&E over the first two months of the summer. The latest NHS figures in E...

News article on the hub today - NHS corridor care now year-round crisis in England, experts say (via @theguardian.com). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/...

Semaglutide and Tirzepatide in Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction This study evaluates the effectiveness and safety of semaglutide and tirzepatide in patients with cardiometabolic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in clinical practice.

New JAMA study: Semaglutide and tirzepatide reduce risk of heart failure hospitalization or death by >40% in patients with obesity-related HFpEF and type 2 diabetes—no meaningful difference between the two drugs.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#health #medicine #MedEd #MedTwitter #CardioTwitter

#medsky

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Frontiers | Frailty and nutritional assessments for predicting postoperative complications in older adults undergoing non-cardiac surgery IntroductionFrailty and malnutrition are closely linked to adverse surgical outcomes. However, their combined influence on post-non-cardiac surgery complicat...

Frailty Predicts Postoperative Complications in Older Adults Undergoing Surgery

by Chatmongkolchart S, Saetang M (...) Sukitpaneenit K et 3 al. in Front Med (Lausanne) #Surgery #SurgSky #GeneralSurgery #MedSky

🪡 read our summary here
📖 read the article:

Clinical Services Journal has covered a new survey by the Confederation of British Surgery (CBS) that identifies continuing gender bias in surgical disciplines as we call for action from the surgical community #UKsurgeons

Henry Marsh: ‘Today’s NHS makes me angry. I’m not sure I could be a neurosurgeon now’ The celebrated surgeon on assisted dying, fighting prostate cancer and his sympathy for junior doctors

Celebrated neuro surgeon Henry Marsh discusses assisted dying, fighting prostate cancer and sympathy for junior doctors in a new interview www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/08/0... #UKsurgeons #neurosurgery @telegraphnews.bsky.social

🚨 The British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery has launched a new podcast to coincide with the beginning of #HairLossAwarenessMonth!

The first episode discusses the black market in hair transplant surgery, the key dangers, and what to do if you’re a victim.

Listen now bahrs.podbean.com