Current and Upcoming Events
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Cafe Med - Seminar 3: Cutting back on the fat: The health effects of fat tissue and how bariatric surgery works
-Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many health conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancers. We will look at why increasing the amount of fat tissue we have in our bodies can lead to disease. We will also discuss bariatric surgery, which can be a highly...
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Cafe Med: Seminar 4: Spinal Muscular Atrophy - A treatable childhood motor neuron disease
-10 years ago, Spinal Muscular Atrophy was the second most common inherited cause of infant mortality worldwide, but you may never have heard of it. Severely affected children had a life expectancy of less than 3 years, but now three novel and expensive therapies have emerged, which are providing new...