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Hypertensive Genetics

Suborno Ghosh delves into and dissects the recent research on the genetics of hypertension In the general population blood pressure (BP) is distributed normally and in adults there is a continuous...

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Stories from the Bedside – A tumultuous beginning to fifth year

Jun Lao, Mess Editor, back with a vengeance and raging against the (Government) machine. Medical students and doctors gathered to protest the DDRB contract reform proposals outside the venue for the...

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How university is different to school and how to cope.

This is the second article in the Freshers series. Look out for more in the coming weeks!   Freshers is a whirlwind. It moves quickly, with each day and week in first term feeling so novel and new and...

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The Twilight Zone

Many friends and family have asked me in the past. ‘What are you studying?’ Once they hear the word ‘Medicine’, they immediately assume. ‘Wow I hear doctors make so much money!’ One even went on to...

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Live. Work. Play. Adapting to Life at University.

This is the third article in the ongoing Freshers series. Check out more in the coming weeks!   Live ‘Have fun and make the most of it, but remember to look after yourself,’ says the classic family...

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Medical Student 101 – A guide to protesting

Jun Lao, Mess Editor, with a brief look at the art of protesting A masked protestor from the Occupy protests of 2011 The gloomy spectre of the junior doctor contract reforms looms over all of us as...

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Editor’s letter 2015 No. 13

Our Editor-in-Chief recounts a recent clinical and emotional experience  I’ve been trying to write this article for a while now, not because I’ve been busy (I have), nor because I’ve been lazy (I...

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How to have a Medic Social Life

This is the fourth article in the ongoing Freshers series. Check back in the coming weeks for more! I am not going to tell you how to make friends. As medic freshers I can assume that you have a...

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Protest or progress? Taking safety beyond a hashtag

Dr Oscar To Staff writer   Last Saturday saw the demonstration of thousands of doctors across the country in protest against the forceful imposition of new contracts reducing pay by 30% across numerous...

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A fortunate man: A reminder of the essence of medicine

Vinay Mandagere of the University of Bristol reviews the insightful tale, A Fortunate Man: The story of a country doctor A Fortunate Man: the story of a country doctor is the classic tale of a country...

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Getting involved in Research and Auditing as a First Year

  This is the fifth article in our ongoing Freshers series. Check back next week for the final instalment.   Quality Improvement: Research and Audit? One of the core components of a career in medicine...

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Good Bacteria may Prevent Asthma

 Utsav K. Radia reports on pioneering research into the prevention of childhood asthma Asthma affects 5.4 million people in United Kingdom and costs the NHS £1 billion a year. In 2011, there were 1,...

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Hunt is Still Spinning Lies

Rob Cleaver reports on Jeremy Hunt’s last minute attempts to avert strike action Last night, Jeremy Hunt offered junior doctors an apparent 11% pay rise in a last roll of the dice to avoid industrial...

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Diary of an FY1 – Salvation in a Sea of Sickness

In the latest edition of his diary, Oscar tries to find a place of solace  It takes a either great bravery or great desperation to explore the unknown. Seeking fame in the great annuls of history or...

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Annual Student and Trainee Ophthalmology Conference (ASTOC) 2015

On 5th December, RSM are hosting the Annual student and trainee ophthalmic conference (ASTOC) 2015 at their base on Wimpole Street. The event aims to increase awareness of ophthalmology as a...

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Editor’s letter 2015 No. 14

Last month, our Editor-in-Chief did a stretch in a forensic unit Murder is a complicated thing. So complicated in fact that society is drawn so easily to lengthy, rumbling media campaigns about those...

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I Want Doctors Talking About Their Hopes, Fears and Working Lives

Last week, we interviewed Johann Malawana, Chair of the BMA Junior Doctors’ Committee and founder of TMS. By Rob Cleaver and Helena Angel-Scott Back in 2004, the then president of Barts and the London...

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Medical Stories from Portugal #1

Rui Duarte Armindo, a medical student in Coimbra, Portugal adds a little bit of spice to the conventional medical history Every day, as medical students, we cross our paths with a bed number, a...

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Junior Doctors Will Strike

Rob Cleaver reports on news that industrial action will go ahead next month after 98% of junior doctors vote in favour. The proposed industrial action by junior doctors will go ahead next month after...

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Beasts of No Nation – An honest telling of the horrors of war

Culture Editor, Asad Charania (SGUL) reviews the gripping Beasts of no nation    “I saw terrible things… and I did terrible things. So if I’m talking to you, it will make me sad and it will make you...

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