Over the last 150 years, lung cancer has gone from being an obscure and rare disease to emerging as the most common cause of cancer worldwide, inparticular the most common cause of death by cancer.
Chronic progressive renal transplant vs renal dialysis – Which is better?
13 September 2022
1 in 10 adults globally suffer from chronic renal failure; the burden worldwide is increasing and is calculated to become the 5th most common cause of ‘years of life lost’ by 2040. This pathology currently costs 3% of the healthcare budget of most 1st world countries and is increasing.
This webinar will assess the importance in wearing facemasks and preventing Covid. The panel includes Professor Peter Barnes FRS, Professor of Medicine at Imperial College, Dr Peter Tippet MD, Bianca Jagger, a philanthropist and human rights advocate.
Inhaled steroids in Covid-19
2 July 2021
This recent study led by Prof Barnes and his colleagues and published in the Lancet earlier this summer, has indicated that inhaled steroid therapy widely prescribed in asthma patients, may also have a protective effect against coronavirus infection, even in patients without asthma.
The Challenge of Long Covid
2 February 2021
What is Long-Covid? How do we recognise it and how will primary care manage a potential new avalanche of patients with multisystem symptoms? Our experts from academic immunology, Intensive care and general practice will discuss the road ahead.
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