To celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday on 5th July 2018, the National Health Singers released new single ‘Won’t let go’. The song aims to raise awareness of the current threat to the NHS, increase positivity and lead the fight to protect our National Health Service. The National Health Singers are a choir of doctors, nurses, healthcare…
Continue reading ➞ NHS70: National Health Singers Won’t Let Go!
On 27th June 2018, the best and brightest of British business gathered at the Guildhall to celebrate London’s biggest success stories at the London Evening Standard Business Awards, hosted by Victoria Coren-Mitchell. The first category of the evening was the SME and Start-Up of the Year 2018 – and the winner was MedShr! The Evening…
Continue reading ➞ MedShr wins SME and Start-Up of the year at Evening Standard Business Awards!
The National Health Service - NHS, celebrates its 70th Birthday today and it’s far from enjoying a quiet retirement! The NHS was created out of the ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth. When it was launched by the then minister of health, Aneurin Bevan, on July 5 1948, it was based on…
MedShr was developed to enable doctors to use their own smartphone to share and discuss clinical cases, and to do this in a way that is compliant in terms of patient privacy, data protection and information governance. MedShr: a private, professional and verified network All MedShr members are verified as doctors, medical students or registered…
Randomized controlled trials (RCT) allow scientists to test whether an intervention leads to an outcome of interest. The first clinical trial dates back to 1747 and was conducted by James Lind; although not with the rigor of today, Lind selected 12 participants ravaged with scurvy and allocated in pairs to 6 groups1. The first pair…
Tumor Boards and Multidisciplinary Meetings (MDMs) bring together the team of professionals involved in the diagnosis, treatment and care of cancer patients. Typically they include oncologists, radiologists, cancer surgeons, specialist nurses and relevant physicians such as gastroenterologists or chest physicians. These meetings consider a patient’s symptoms, clinical signs and investigations, and plan tests and treatment…
Continue reading ➞ MedShr Global Tumor Boards launching at ASCO 2018
MedShr is working with CRF to support the Structural Heart Disease Summit 2018, bringing together 10 years of experience from TVT with a live case demonstration course on LAA and PFO in Chicago from 20-23rd June. The event features: Comprehensive training with live cases Tips and tricks for TAVI, mitral, LAA and PFO interventions The…
Continue reading ➞ MedShr and CRF at the Structural Heart Disease Summit 2018!
In April, MedShr attended the Malaria Summit in London in support of the global fight to eradicate the deadly disease for good. https://youtu.be/xCoy2B4UcB4 The event was co-hosted by the Governments of Swaziland and Rwanda and convened by the RBM Partnership to End Malaria and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In attendance were 12 Heads of State,…
Continue reading ➞ MedShr supporting the fight to eradicate malaria at the Malaria Summit in London
Most doctors have recognised for some time that dividing Diabetes into Type 1 early onset typically requiring insulin therapy and Type 2 late onset doesn’t really define the patterns that we see in clinical practice. In March 2018 a study in the Lancet identified five clusters of diabetes that could revolutionise the way we diagnose…
Continue reading ➞ Redefining diabetes: A leap closer to understanding this complex disease
The European Congress of Radiology 2018 saw a record number of delegates and companies gather in Vienna from 28th February to 4th March for one of the biggest and most innovative scientific meetings in Europe hosted by the largest radiological society in the world, the European Society of Radiology (ESR). A total of 28,474 participants…
Continue reading ➞ European Congress of Radiology 2018: Clinical Highlights
