2010: 60k people used food banks. 2023: 2.98 million people used food banks.

AI in medicine can only be truly powerful if the training data is clinically relevant. That's why we're proud to share our image dataset of urine from patients suffering from UTIs. Here's to a brighter future for UTI diagnostics! Bladder Infection and Immunity Group Artur Yakimovich nature.com/articles/s4159…

The images from Rafah are unbearable. What is there left to say? Do our political leaders not see what we see? Is there really no limit to what Palestinians must endure? Enough! Stop equivocating. Stop stalling. Stop hiding — and call for an immediate ceasefire, now.

⬇️ almost every day!

imagine if we just taxed billionaires and millionaires properly instead of relying on their benevolence as a PR stunt

💯- Add to the mix that a vasectomy has a far superior efficacy rate (~99.9%) than the respective female procedures and doesn’t increase anyone’s risk of potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy ✌🏻

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

The election of Donald Trump is a dark day for reproductive healthcare, the rights of refugees and the future of our planet. As we speak, people are being slaughtered in Gaza and Lebanon. Our demands on our governments have not changed: stop enabling genocide and end all arms

Feeling happy to be heading into the Christmas break with ethical approval and a BSUG grant, excited for the new year 🔬and grateful for lots of support along the way 🌟

Check out our #BIIG preprint, where we describe bacterial ecological shifts in the bladder that drive #ChronicUTI. 👇 doi.org/10.20944/prepr…

Always ensure that the healthcare professionals treating you or your family introduce themselves, and make their job title clear. If not, it’s ok to ask. Some departments treat seeing patients as a tick box exercise, with safety an afterthought.

We #BIIGs are at #UKCS2025! Raj spoke in the "Is the NHS Sexist?" plenary session, advocating for women's health. Huge credits to active patient support groups that are not only important to #ChronicUTI sufferers, but also instrumental in focusing our research directions.

Some places left for LapxLand 2025! Please share - open to O&G residents of any level and a great opportunity to prepare for #GESEA and get training from specialists in #MIGS

This preprint is now peer-reviewed and published! Read the final version here: doi.org/10.3390/pathog…