📢 Early-bird registration for THIS Space 2024 is open! We invite you to take a seat at our fully virtual conference on Tuesday 26 November. Register now: ths.im/3YeJaSM

End-of-life care guidelines aren’t always implemented, for a host of reasons. We wanted to find out what those reasons were and identify ways of making implementing them easier for healthcare professionals. Full paper: ths.im/3LKxCPS

Infecting volunteers with #malaria reveals why some get sick and others don’t – and points to ways to induce stronger immunity through #vaccination. New Imperial Sciences study led by Prof Faith Osier reveals how effective malaria vaccines can be designed 👇 imperial.ac.uk/news/255120/ro…

Current projections estimate 153 million people will be living with dementia by 2050. Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, suggests new report from a standing Lancet Commission: buff.ly/46nvoPR

More than 4 years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, millions of people continue to experience long-term impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection. A new Review brings together streams of literature on post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID): hubs.li/Q02JSgDK0

Good design doesn’t happen by accident, it’s a skill that can help to improve our healthcare systems. We discuss design expertise and why it’s a must-have skill for healthcare improvement. THIS summary: ths.im/3yFBVZS Full article: ths.im/3YPLkZz

Our latest research: Long COVID symptoms and demographic associations: A retrospective case series study using healthcare application data. Led by David Sunkersing fiona stevenson 💙 & Living With. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #LongCovid Long Covid SOS Long COVID Physio Long Covid Support 🌍 Prof Kamlesh Khunti

🚨We're recruiting! If you or someone you care for has an advanced illness, your experience matters. Help us improve care and support by sharing your insights. 🌟 Register now: imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3s… #Healthcare #PatientCare #Research

Our latest publication found pain to be the most common symptom among over 1,000 people with #LongCovid. Demographic factors (e.g., age, sex and ethnicity) also appear to influence symptom severity. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… UCL Primary Care & Population Health The UCL Institute of Health Informatics

One in four children under 5 years old are fed a deficient diet of two or fewer food groups each day. LSHTM Nutrition Group members Kadiyala and Harris-Fry reflect on this collective failure to nourish young bodies and minds in The BMJ bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Billions worldwide consume inadequate levels of micronutrients critical to human health from food (without fortification or supplementation), modelling study in The Lancet Global Health suggests. Explore the data ▶️ hubs.li/Q02N87xd0

"AI can only deliver on its promised benefits if they are universally realisable, else we risk perpetuating entrenched global health disparities and power asymmetries." New letter—AI in health care and the fragile pursuit of equity and social justice: hubs.li/Q02NlSZl0

NEW: Imperial NHS 💙 Professor Lord Darzi has published his independent investigation into the state of the NHS. This report will inform the government’s 10-year plan to fix our broken NHS. The 6 key findings 👇

Replacing ultra-processed foods (#UPFs) with foods that are less processed may reduce the risk of #diabetes 📉 New study with UCL & Cambridge University suggests even within UPFs, certain foods are linked to a higher risk of developing #T2D. The Standard standard.co.uk/news/uk/resear…

🧵 Our October 2024 issue, guest edited by Rasu Shrestha MD MBA, MD, MBA, is specially themed around digital health technology innovation: digital technology adoption, the uses of artificial intelligence, in-basket workflow, telehealth-enabled nursing, and digitally enabled care.

We are delighted that LifeArc (LifeArc), Cepheid (Cepheid), and Optum (Optum) have joined the Fleming Initiative (Fleming Initiative) as partners. Together, we are united in our global effort to combat antimicrobial resistance. Find out more ➡️ imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/news/… 1/3

1/6. Today we launched our @thekingsfund report on #publichealth and #populationhealth #leading together. A summary of key points follow. We make a limited no of recs for national leaders, and share examples of how things are working well in practice kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

The 2024 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have successfully utilised artificial intelligence to predict the structure of almost all known proteins. In 2020, Hassabis and Jumper presented an AI model called AlphaFold2. With its help, they have

📣 Today we publish our joint report with MHI, which reveals how Shout’s digital service provides timely, targeted and effective #MentalHealth support for those in urgent need. 🧵 imperial.ac.uk/Stories/Help-i…

An enlightening ‘Ellison Cliffe’ lecture from Professor Christopher Bishop of Microsoft. He shared how deep learning is revolutionising scientific discovery and medicine, with several examples from materials design and drug discovery. #AI RoySocMed