Professor Gillian Leng, Dean of Education at the Royal Society of Medicine, took part in a live Channel 4 News debate last night (Wednesday 18 January 2023) about the crisis in the NHS. Asked by host ...

The Royal Society of Medicine has signed a deal with edtech startup, Bodyswaps, to create exclusive healthcare training simulations powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR). Th...

Loss of sense of smell has become one of the issues most associated with COVID-19. Three years on, around 700,000 people in the UK alone are believed to have total smell loss (anosmia) caused by the v...

Difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat, pancreatic cancer is predicted to become the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the UK within the next few years. So said Professor Roge...

By Dr Fiona Moss All health systems worry about patient safety. Not only are lives lost or changed by failures in the health system, but avoidable harm is expensive and a drain on scarce resources. Th...

John's story In January 2022, I was diagnosed with a malignant tumour, known as a “squamous cell carcinoma” on my lower right eyelid. It rarely attacks this area of the body as aggressively as it did....

Powerful personal stories, illustrating the complex interface between physical and mental health in people with a learning disability, were a stand-out feature of a recent event hosted by the RSM’s In...

At the start of October, I underwent a knee reconstruction – too many marathons! – and I’m now having to get used to being off my feet. Anybody who knows me will know what a challenge that is! I am ha...

Professor Maggie Rae, President, and Dr Nicola Stingelin, council member, of the Epidemiology & Public Health Section, Royal Society of Medicine, dissect the UK government's proposal to phase out ...

Doctors and other clinicians should carry out an audit of their time to address burnout in primary care, a leading GP has said. Dr Jay Verma Today, at the start of Mental Health Awareness Week (13-19 ...