

Hollie Clements
785 posts

@MissHClements
General Surgery SpR Mersey Deanery | Oesophagogastric PhD Fellow @UoDmedicine | Roux Group Oesophagogastric Lead | Patients First



Save the date: September 5–7, 2028 📅 📍 Montreal, Canada The ISDE World Congress 2028 is heading to Montreal. We look forward to bringing together the global esophageal disease community for our flagship meeting. #ISDE2028 #ISDE #MedicalCongress

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which inevitably led to starvation. This is known as one of medicine's most incredible moments. Imagine a room full of parents sitting at the bedside waiting for the inevitable death of their child. The scientists went from bed to bed and injected the children with a new purified extract: it was called insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first child injected began to awaken. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom became a place of joy and hope. In the early 1920s Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under the directorship of John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip insulin was purified, making it available for the successful treatment of diabetes. In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1. Banting and Macleod earned a Nobel Prize for their work in 1923. Photo Credits: Library and Archives Canada




BREAKING: Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys concedes the Irish presidential election to left-wing independent candidate Catherine Connolly trib.al/kdXA2Dr 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube





For too long, Israel has been allowed to commit war crimes & breach international law without consequence. Peace in Gaza must have the full backing & involvement of Palestinians. The international community must step up, end their arming & funding of Israel, & bring this genocide to an end.


Watch Al Jazeera for 35 seconds to see what Israel 🇮🇱 are doing to Gaza City 🇵🇸 They are making it uninhabitable. Bombing it to rubble for real estate. It’s ethnic cleansing. It’s genocide. And western media & ‘leaders’ are silent.

