Monthly Archives: September 2017

Snippets from the BMJ this week

We all know that exercise is good for us, and most of us spend our lives in an over-sedentary way, not taking any exercise, and laying up trouble for the future. However, a rather scary article in the BMJ (p422) highlights the risk of some more extreme forms of exercise. Triathlons are one of those… Read More »

International MNI Award 2017

€30,000 research prize won by Harrison Carter, a Year 5 medical student, who was awarded the ‘International MNI Award 2017’, at the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) in The Hague. He has been awarded 30,000 euros to develop a medical and public health nutrition programme for UK medical students to help improve patient outcomes… Read More »