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Doubts raised about effectiveness of HPV vaccines

Peer reviewed / Review / People A new analysis of the clinical trials of HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer raises doubts about the vaccines’ effectiveness. The analysis, published by the Journal...

Leading academic warns of ‘worrying’ Sovietisation of British medical profession

Contemporary developments in British medicine have concerning similarities to historical Soviet practices, a leading academic claims. In a new commentary published in the Journal of the Royal Society ...

COVID-19 resources roundup

We’ve created a roundup of official guidance and information, tools and helpful resources on COVID-19 for healthcare professionals. Compiled by the Library team at the RSM. COVID-19: track coronavirus...

Royal Society of Medicine welcomes six new honorary fellows

Six leading figures became honorary fellows of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) yesterday evening (23 July 2024), in recognition of their contributions to health, healthcare or medicine. The Societ...

President’s update: November 2017

Sir Simon Wessely tells the story 'The three walds – a story for which the world is not yet prepared'. Once upon a time, dearly beloved, a sixth former wanted to get some work experience in medicine. ...

Professor Haberal receives the RSM’s first Distinguished Fellowship

World-renowned surgeon Professor Mehmet Haberal was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine’s first Distinguished Fellowship on Wednesday 8 March 2017. Created in 2008, the Distinguished Fellowship was ...

Catastrophic failures in the NHS can be caused by breakdowns in basic communication systems

The NHS sometimes struggles to manage basic communication systems that are often critical to the safety of patients. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Carl Macrae, of the Univer...

Access to medical school narrowing for graduate-entry students

Access to medical school is narrowing for people wishing to study medicine who already have a degree, according to a group of current graduate-entry medical students. In a letter to the Journal of the...

Visible public health leadership needed to boost vaccine coverage

Public health expert Professor John Ashton is calling for local directors of public health to provide visible leadership to address the recent systematic deterioration of vaccine coverage levels. Writ...

COVID-19: Cuba offers UK salutary lesson in ‘shoe-leather’ epidemiology

Cuba’s successful containment of COVID-19 through door-to-door screening of every home in the country, shows how ‘shoe-leather’ epidemiology could have averted the dramatic failure of the UK’s respons...