VIDEO: Skeleton in 3D aids medical training
Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh are building a 3D model skeleton that will transform the way medical students are trained. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Royal College of Surgeons appoints BMJ as international sales partner
(BMJ) The Royal College of Surgeons has appointed global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ, as its international sales partner for institutional customers. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 4, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Carestream Nordic User Group Meeting 'A Great Success'
Carestream Nordic region recently held a highly successful HCIS User Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Customers, including radiologists, RIS/PACS Managers and IT Specialists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, attended the event, held at the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - October 30, 2015 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Carestream Business and Industry Source Type: news
Exclusive: Hunt hires ex-royal college boss amid seven day row
Jeremy Hunt has hired Sir Norman Williams, the immediate past president of the Royal College of Surgeons, as his senior clinical advisor. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - October 6, 2015 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Rotting teeth is the leading cause of UK hospital admissions in children
Each week, 500 children care admitted to hospitals in England to have tooth extractions under general anaesthetic. The Royal College of Surgeons has called on the Government to take action. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Supervise child's teeth-brushing until age of eight: Dentists' advice as tooth decay cases soar
The advice from dental experts at the Royal College of Surgeons comes after a startling rise in tooth decay cases, which are the primary cause for a trip to hospital for under-nines. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
VIDEO: Parents 'should brush children's teeth'
The Royal College of Surgeons calls on parents to supervise or brush their children's teeth until the age of 14, when their adult teeth are fully formed. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Reducing variation in the care of people with osteoarthritis
Symptoms are often inadequately controlled, and research published in 2014 by the Royal College of Surgeons revealed variation in the rates of referral for hip replacement among CCGs. It showed that nearly three-quarters are not following NICE guidance or having a commissioning policy for this procedure.
The NICE quality standard on osteoarthritis aims to reduce variation in care through eight statements which cover the diagnosis, assessment, management, ongoing review and referral for joint surgery of adults who have osteoarthritis (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - June 15, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
Call for more surgeons as hip and knee operations rise
A shortage of training places for orthopaedic surgeons must be addressed as demand for hip and knee replacement surgery continues to rise, the Royal College of Surgeons has said. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - March 13, 2015 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Egypt: Health Ministry, British Surgeons College Sign Cooperation Protocol
[Egypt Online] Health Ministry signed on Monday 9/3/2015 a cooperation protocol with the Royal College of Surgeons of England. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 11, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Cosmetic surgery rules proposed
Doctors should be prevented from performing cosmetic surgery outside their speciality, according to the Royal College of Surgeons. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Worrying variation' in prostate cancer treatment
There is a 'worryingly vast variation' in the care of prostate cancer patients, experts warn (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - November 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: prostate treatment royal college of surgeons audit cancer hospitals prostate cancer report Source Type: news
HEE puts spotlight on patient safety education
Health Education England has appointed a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons to head a panel tasked with embedding patient safety in healthcare training. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - August 21, 2014 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Stephen I. Katz
DirectorStephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D. has been Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases since August 1995 and is also a Senior Investigator in the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute. He was born in New York in 1941 and his early years were spent in the Washington, D.C., and Bethesda, Maryland areas. After attending the University of Maryland, where he graduated with honors, he graduated from the Tulane University Medical School with honors in 1966. He completed a medical internship at Los Angeles County Hospital and did his dermatology residency at the University...
Source: PHRMA - July 30, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Emily Source Type: news
Is access to surgery a postcode lottery?
The study investigated commissioning policies relating to four common surgical procedures carried out on the NHS and compared those policies to evidence-based guidance published by the Royal College of Surgeons, the surgical specialty associations and NICE. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - July 24, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
