Today is World Haemophilia Day! Since 1989, World Haemophilia Day is the day the whole bleeding disorders community comes together to celebrate the continuous advances in treatment while raising awareness and bringing understanding and attention to the issues related to…
Palliative care and decision making
Physicians serve a unique role in society, regularly dealing with matters of life and death, with their main objective being to save lives. But when it comes to a patient becoming palliative, should a doctors mission to save someone's life…
Dr. Soon Song on diabetes and new treatments
Dr. Soon Song spoke to M3 about the growing health threat that is diabetes, medical students and new agents like GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors and new technologies like CGMS Firstly, we’d like to get to know you better. Let’s…
Overuse of unnecessary antibiotics
The overuse of unnecessary antibiotics has been the topic of the Monthly pulse we delivered to our panel members’ inboxes in July. In the UK it is estimated that 1.6 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are issued each year and this issue…
Automatic donor registration – A global view
June’s Monthly Pulse asked about automatic donor registration. Some countries (for example, Spain and France) have automatic organ donor registration, where everyone is considered to want to donate their organs in the event of brain or cardiac death unless they…