Dog pool party.. 😅

How a 3D printed aorta helped surgeons replace a 'ticking time bomb' inside a man's chest abc.net.au/news/2025-07-0… via ABC Australia

Our forbears paid £17bn at current values for slavery reparations. Guess if this went to the slaves or the slave-owners.

Remyelination in MS? - Bexarotene leads to durable improvements in visual evoked potential latency: A follow-up study of the Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair One trial - PubMed

‘When you care for someone full-time, you forget how to breathe’ (Melanie Reid in today’s Observer)

Puberty has a lot to answer for, but at least don’t smoke! Men who smoke during their own puberty damage their sperm, leading to their children ageing faster (Abstract no. PA3770, presented today at ERS Congress in Amsterdam)

If your patient has multiple rib fractures, high-flow nasal cannulae seem to bring better outcomes than non-invasive ventilation (even though they also have different indications) - Kwon et al 2025: doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004629

My spider plant has survived by dint of extreme neglect. After 40 years in the same soil, I have just (anxiously) re-potted it, and am anticipating its imminent demise.

Are we surprised? Nardini et al 2025 Last-minute cancellation of elective lung cancer surgery is associated with poorer survival. Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 40(8):ivae172. doi: 10.1093/icvts/ivae172

Rebuilding Gaza will produce greenhouse gases equivalent to the annual emissions of a medium-sized country (George Monbiot 27/9/25)

Some cancer patients are waiting 6 months for their treatment, and 60,000 are not getting their radiotherapy at all (Radiotherapy UK).

I normally don’t object to paying taxes (which have paid my salary all my life) but I now understand that they’re paying for Israeli drones to play the sound of crying children to entice Gazans to leave their homes so that they can be shot by IDF snipers.

Don’t forget the humidification! Iatrogenic lung overinflation resulting in pneumothorax and pneumoperitoneum during oxygen therapy after general anesthesia: A case report - PMC

Two years since Hamas killed over 1,200 people in Israeli kibbutzim. Two years during which the IDF have killed over 66,000 civilians in Gaza (with thousands more under the rubble). Meanwhile we export bombs, missiles and grenade launchers to Israel at the highest rate on record.

Ginkgo biloba is the only plant that survived Hiroshima.

If your patient with head and neck cancer is having radiotherapy, try RMT - Respiratory muscle training reduces painful swallowing and opioid use during radiation therapy for head and neck cancer: a matched pair analysis | BMC Cancer | Full Text

Why are Union and St George’s flags flown at half mast?

Harnessing the power of nature in surgery: A systematic scoping review of nature prescribing and measures of benefit - Surgery

Are your abdominal surgery patients remembering to clean their teeth? If not, postop infection is more likely: Ikuno T et al 2025 Effect of oral frailty on postoperative infection in patients undergoing abdominal visceral surgery. Oral Dis. 31(2):633-9. doi: 10.1111/odi.15162

Traffic lights on some Copenhagen roads are synchronised so that rush-hour cyclists catch green all the way