tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35802748691497091692024-03-13T07:35:00.597-07:00DONALD SINGER: HEALTH, ART AND SCIENCEDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.comBlogger276125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-14449769212791545622022-03-16T09:36:00.005-07:002022-03-16T09:36:41.267-07:00Judging underway for the 2022 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine<p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Entries have been received for the 2022 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine from 32 countries for its FPM-Hippocrates Open and Health Professional Awards and from 22 countries for the Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize. These well-established international awards are supported by medical society the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Trust the Healthy Heart Charity.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Short-listed and commended poets will be notified in early April. Winners of the FPM-Hippocrates Awards will be announced by the judges at the online</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-hippocrates-poetry-and-medicine-prize-readings-and-awards-tickets-296697659687" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Hippocrates Awards Ceremony on 30th May 2022 for which registration is free</a></span>.</p><div class="first graphic-container wide left ImageElement" id="component-0x600001da1cc0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); clear: right; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-right: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="graphic svx-dragging-destination" id="component-0x600001da1f00" style="-webkit-user-select: none; display: block; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: auto;"><div class="figure-content" id="component-0x600001da1f002" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDK6RWuxNKY8z6V058ufCbVmT3zytILZotlDaKKEJImKc7cl-cKPFh1v7-ZZNgt_oiwsHXHNzECFgXm5em3yzFncSsjhnYj7iQEw5R6RtnEeqeJSAItBAcpDgPECpScdVZUdX6BPPFWOHsr92dk_j14gCCOlE_ceef6ckVHRuVKLByrSQeNHzq3Rr9=s1694" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1266" data-original-width="1694" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDK6RWuxNKY8z6V058ufCbVmT3zytILZotlDaKKEJImKc7cl-cKPFh1v7-ZZNgt_oiwsHXHNzECFgXm5em3yzFncSsjhnYj7iQEw5R6RtnEeqeJSAItBAcpDgPECpScdVZUdX6BPPFWOHsr92dk_j14gCCOlE_ceef6ckVHRuVKLByrSQeNHzq3Rr9=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br />Awards in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world. Previous winners have come from Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">With a prize fund of £5500 for winning poems in the Open International category and international health professional category, and £500 for the international Young Poets Award, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Judges for the 2022 FPM-Hippocrates Prize </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Open and Health Professional awards </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">are American poet <a href="http://www.jeffreyharrisonpoet.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Jeffrey Harrison</a>, British medical researcher <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.j.barnes" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Professor Peter Barnes</a> FRS and BBC newsreader, writer and actor <a href="http://www.zebsoanes.com/about" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Zeb Soanes</a>. European/</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">American author and poet <a href="http://www.ehinsey.com/test" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Ellen Hinsey</a> is judge for the Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-prize/2022-hippocrates-prize/judges-for-the-2022-hippocr.html" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">See more on the judges below.</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The International Hippocrates Prize is awarded in three categories:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">- a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Open category, which anyone in the world may enter. There are a further ~20 commendations in the Open category</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">- a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional category, which is open to Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations anywhere in the world involved in education and training of health professional students and staff. There are a further ~20 commendations in the Health Professional category</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">- a £500 award for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for an unpublished poem in English on a medical theme. Entries are open to young poets from anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years. There are further commendations in the Young Poets category. There is no entry fee for the Young Poets prize.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Hippocrates Initiative</span></u><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> for Poetry and Medicine – winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that investigates the synergy between medicine, the arts and health.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Notes for editors</span></strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />For more on the 2022 Hippocrates Prize email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Support for the 2022 Hippocrates Prize</span></strong></p><p class="m_-499684260875019148MsoPlainText" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The 2022 FPM-Hippocrates Open Awards and FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Awards are supported by the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>. The FPM, founded in 1918, is a UK medical society which publishes the international journals the Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health Policy and Technology. </span></p><p class="m_-499684260875019148MsoPlainText" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The 2022 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>, a healthy heart charity founded in 1996, which promotes research and education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and circulation. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding preventable heart disease through educating school students.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">2022 Hippocrates Prize Judges</span></strong></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Peter Barnes FRS </strong>has been Margaret Turner-Warwick Professor of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London since 1987. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher elected as FRS for over 150 years. He is a Past-President of the European Respiratory Society (2013/14). His research is focused on cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), understanding and developing therapies and research into biomarkers for these diseases. He is involved in multidisciplinary translational research which integrates basic science with clinical studies, thereby providing novel insights into common airway diseases. He qualified at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and he has published over 1000 peer-review papers on asthma, COPD and related topics and has edited over 40 books. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">He is amongst the top 50 most highly cited researchers in the world and has been the most highly cited clinical scientist in the UK and the most highly cited respiratory researcher in the world over the last 20 years. He is an Emeritus National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator, a Master Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is also a member of the Council of medical society the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Jeffrey Harrison</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the author of six full-length books of poetry, including, most recently, <em>Between Lakes</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Four Way Books, 2020), selected as a 2021 Must-Read Poetry Book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Into Daylight</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Tupelo Press, 2014), winner of the Dorset Prize, <em>Incomplete Knowledge</em> (2006), and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Feeding the Fire</em> (2001), which won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. His first book, <em>The Singing Underneath</em>, was selected by James Merrill for National Poetry Series in 1987. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">A volume of his selected early poems,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>The Names of Things</em>, was published in the U.K. by the Waywiser Press in 2006. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation, among other honors, and his poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including <em>Best American Poetry</em>,<em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Pushcart Prize </em>volumes,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Poets of the New Century, The Twentieth Century in Poetry</em>, and been featured regularly in Ted Kooser’s column<em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>American Life in Poetry,</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>The Writer’s Almanac</em>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Poetry Daily</em>, and other online and media venues. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Reviewing <em>Incomplete Knowledge</em> for the <em>Virginia Quarterly Review</em>, critic George David Clark praises Harrison’s “seemingly effortless access to both desperate sorrow and a certain joyous and musical gusto—somewhat paradoxical attitudes Harrison often convincingly achieves within the space of a few lines.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Jeffrey Harrison has taught at George Washington University, Phillips Academy, the University of Southern Maine, and Framingham State University. He lives in Massachusetts and can also be found at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://jeffreyharrisonpoet.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">jeffreyharrisonpoet.com</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">American poet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Ellen Hinsey</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is judge for the 2022 Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">She</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is the author of nine books of essays, dialogue, poetry and translation. Her essays on Central and Eastern Europe are collected in <em>Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism </em>(2017). Her book-length dialogue with Lithuanian poet and dissident Tomas Venclova, <em>Magnetic North </em>explores post-war Lithuanian and Eastern European culture and ethics under totalitarianism. Hinsey's other books include: <em>The Illegal Age</em>, <em>Update on the Descent</em>, which draws on her experience at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague, <em>The White Fire of Time </em>and <em>Cities of Memory</em> (Yale University Series Award). Her work has appeared in publications such as <em>The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry Review, The Irish Times </em>and<em> Poetry, </em>among others.<em> </em>She is a former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the DAAD Kunstlerprogam in Berlin. She is the international correspondent for the <em>New England Review</em> and is currently a senior editor at the <em>New American Studies Journal </em>(Göttingen).</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><strong><a href="http://www.zebsoanes.com/about" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Zeb Soanes</a></strong> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">is a newsreader and reassuring voice of the Shipping Forecast to millions of listeners on BBC Radio 4. He is a regular on The News Quiz, has reported for From Our Own Correspondent, read for Poetry Please and presented Saturday Classics on BBC Radio 3. He has announced some of the biggest events in recent years from the final result of the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump to the unfolding of the Coronavirus pandemic. Sunday Times readers voted him their favourite male voice on UK radio. At literary festivals including Hay and Edinburgh he regularly chairs discussions with best-selling authors including Francesca Simon, Patrick Gale and David Walliams. His long association with The Shipping Forecast has led him to read it from the top of a lighthouse, at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and to open London Fashion Week.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">He studied Creative Writing and Drama at UEA and has written for The Observer, Country Life and The Literary Review. In 2019, St Martin in the Fields commissioned him to rewrite the libretto for Vaughan Williams’ 1958 nativity pageant, The First Nowell, presented as a charity gala.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">He trained as an actor and has performed in BBC radio dramas with Simon Russell-Beale and Toby Jones. He played Derek Nimmo in the story of the classic BBC comedy series All Gas and Gaiters and was the sinister librarian to David Warner’s Doctor Who for Big Finish Productions. In the short film, Mayday, starring Juliet Stevenson, he relayed the unfolding chaos of an earthquake in London. During the 2020 coronavirus lockdown he created celebriTEAS, a comedy podcast, impersonating his theatrical heroes to raise money for the Equity Benevolent Fund and Acting for Others which received praise from Russell Davies and Stephen Fry.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">His best-selling first book for children, Gaspard the Fox, inspired by his remarkable encounters with an urban fox, was published in May 2018, illustrated by James Mayhew. It was followed by Gaspard Best in Show (2019). The latest adventure, Gaspard’s Foxtrot (2021), was conceived as both a book and narrated concert work, composed by Jonathan Dove, which received its world premiere at the 2021 Three Choirs Festival.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Zeb is an active patron of Awards for Young Musicians and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine. In recognition of his efforts to culturally rehabilitate the urban fox through his books, he was appointed the first patron of The Mammal Society. He regularly supports the work of St Martin in the Fields with homelessness and, in 2017, hosted a gala auction of theatrical portraits of the Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company, raising over a hundred thousand pounds. In his hometown of Lowestoft he is a committed supporter of the Samaritans.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.375999450683594px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Organisers of the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine</span></strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><br />Professor Donald Singer is a clinical pharmacologist and President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. His interests include public understanding of drugs, health and disease and prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart, brain and circulation. Professor Michael Hulse is a poet and translator of German literature. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Until 2020, he taught poetry and comparative literature at the University of Warwick. He has won the National Poetry Competition and is the only poet to have won the Bridport Poetry Prize twice. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">He has also translated more than sixty books from the German, including titles by Goethe, Rilke, Jakob Wassermann, Alfred Andersch, W. G. Sebald, and Nobel Laureates Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller. His translations have been shortlisted for every major translation award, including the PEN Translation Prize (US), the Aristeion Translation Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize. <br /></span></p>Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-37309214102735448382021-03-09T08:27:00.003-08:002021-03-09T08:27:41.028-08:00Judging underway for the 12th Annual International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine - entries from 34 countries<p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OOpGOaCQ3WY/YEeggG5MLcI/AAAAAAAAGPk/NBvlT11UWuwy8-FgKMt1bqXJhDNrtUOlACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/hippocrates_prize_logo_med_med-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="200" height="231" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OOpGOaCQ3WY/YEeggG5MLcI/AAAAAAAAGPk/NBvlT11UWuwy8-FgKMt1bqXJhDNrtUOlACLcBGAsYHQ/w144-h231/hippocrates_prize_logo_med_med-2.jpeg" width="144" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Entries <span>are now closed for the </span><span style="color: #262626;">Open and Health Professional awards and for the Young Poets Prize in the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Poems have been submitted from 34 countries from Australia to the USA and from Iceland to India. </span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #262626;">The Open and Health Professional awards in the Hippocrates Prize are supported by medical society the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>. The Young Poets Award for poets aged 14-18 years is supported by<a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>healthy heart charity The Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>.</span></span></span><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #262626;">The Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem.</span></span></span></p><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #262626;">There is a prize fund of £500 for winning poems in the FPM-Hippocrates Open category and the FPM-Hippocrates health professional category.</span></span></span></p><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Entries remain open for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f0DXL7fExuE/YEehA67Hr3I/AAAAAAAAGPs/XzM-YOxNLcwFxKmuWZZiOYF7tn34X7xHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s976/2021%2Bjudges.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="976" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f0DXL7fExuE/YEehA67Hr3I/AAAAAAAAGPs/XzM-YOxNLcwFxKmuWZZiOYF7tn34X7xHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/2021%2Bjudges.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Anne Barnard, Keki Daruwalla, Anna Jackson, Neena Modi</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Senior New York Times correspondent Anne Barnard, distinguished poets </span><span style="color: black;">Keki Daruwalla and Anna Jackson and paediatrician </span><span style="color: black;">Professor Neena Modi, </span><span style="color: black;">President-Elect of the British Medical Association, </span><span>are the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/news/press-releases-2/~PAGEID~D59E5923AB894BE1A476" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">judges for the 2021 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine</a>. Ann Barnard, Keki Daruwalla and Professor Neena Modi will</span><span> judge the Open and Health Professional awards and Anna Jackson judge the Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine.</span></span></span><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Co-organiser Donald Singer said: “We are delighted to have such strong international interest already and such a distinguished panel of judges for the 2021 Hippocrates Prize.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">”</span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-prize/2021-hippocrates-prize/judges-for-the-2021-hippocr.html" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span>Read more about the judges ... </span></a></span></span></p><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #011893;"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-prize/2021-hippocrates-prize/index.html" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">2021 International FPM-Hippocrates Open and Health Professional categories</a></span><span style="color: #011893;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">In each category: 1st Prize £1000, 2nd Prize £500, 3rd Prize £250 and up to 20 commendations. Entries were received from 28 countries for these awards in the 2020 Hippocrates Prize.</span><span style="color: #011893;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>There are a limited number of free entries for low-income writers for these awards.<br /><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-prize/2021-hippocrates-prize/applying-for-a-free-entry.html" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click here for how to apply for a free entry</a>.</span></span></span></p><p style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #011893;"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-prize/2021-hippocrates-prize/index.html" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">2021 Hippocrates Young Poets’ Prize for Poetry and Medicine<br /></a></span><span style="color: black;">Entries for this prize are free.The Young Poets’ Prize is for poets aged 14-18 years from anywhere in the world. The Young Poets’ Prize is £500. Entries were received from 19 countries for these 2020 Hippocrates Prize awards.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Awards in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world. Previous winners have come from Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">The International Hippocrates Prize is awarded in three categories:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Open category, which anyone in the world may enter. There are a further ~20 commendations in the Open category</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional category, which is open to Health Service employees, health students and those working in professional organisations anywhere in the world involved in education and training of health professional students and staff. There are a further ~20 commendations in the Health Professional category</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>- closing date 1st March for the £500 award for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for an unpublished poem in English on a medical theme. Entries are open to young poets from anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years. There are further commendations in the Young Poets category. There is no entry fee for the Young Poets prize.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The</span><span style="color: #212121;"> </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Hippocrates Initiative</span></u><span style="color: #212121;"> for Poetry and Medicine – winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that investigates the synergy between medicine, the arts and health.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #212121;">Notes for editors</span></b><span style="color: #212121;"><br />For more on the Hippocrates Prize email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Support for the 2021 Hippocrates Prize</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The 2021 FPM-Hippocrates Open Awards and FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Awards are supported by the </span><a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a><span>. The FPM, founded in 1918, is a UK medical society which publishes the international journals the Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health Policy and Technology. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The 2021 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by </span><a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/" style="color: #418dd9; text-decoration: none;">healthy heart charity The Cardiovascular Research Trust</a> <span>founded in 1996, which promotes research and education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and circulation. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding preventable heart disease through educating school students.</span></span></span></p>Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-53870277600816279652021-01-13T08:43:00.000-08:002021-01-13T08:43:05.439-08:00Health of world leaders: Winston Churchill’s illnesses<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Churchill's
illnesses ranged from concussion and fractures, to pneumonia, atrial
fibrillation and strokes, many occurring at times when his decisions
would play a key role in national and world events. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clinical Pharmacologist and Toxicologist Allister
Vale and Neurologist John Scadding have written the definitive account of Churchill’s major illnesses, from
an episode of childhood pneumonia in 1886 until his death in 1965. </span></span></p><div class="g-cell g-cell-10-12 g-cell-md-1-1"><div class="has-user-generated-content"><div class="text-body-medium" data-automation="listing-event-description"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="text-body-medium" data-automation="listing-event-description"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><strong></strong></span></span>The authors will discuss their new book on Winston Churchill’s illnesses (<span class="a-list-item"><span class="a-text-bold"></span><span>Frontline Books: 15 Oct. 2020)</span></span> at a free online webinar hosted by Medical Society the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine on <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/health-of-world-leaders-winston-churchills-illnesses/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">25 January 2021 at 4pm UK time</a></span></span></div><div class="text-body-medium" data-automation="listing-event-description"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div class="text-body-medium" data-automation="listing-event-description"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-fpm-webinar-health-of-world-leaders-winston-churchills-illnesses-tickets-132045877775" target="_blank">Click here to register for the webinar </a></span></span>
</div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong></strong></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f87EzVSC3Nc/X_8h4D60OzI/AAAAAAAAGJ8/myNw9z2qV5Eoc7Lm_hTm2DAX_YbPUh80ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1026/Churchill%2Bbook.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-f87EzVSC3Nc/X_8h4D60OzI/AAAAAAAAGJ8/myNw9z2qV5Eoc7Lm_hTm2DAX_YbPUh80ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Churchill%2Bbook.png" /></a></strong></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Chair</strong>: Professor Donald Singer, President, Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, London, UK</span></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Panel: </strong>Authors<strong> </strong>Professor
Allister Vale, Clinical Pharmacologist and Toxicologist, University of Birmingham, UK
and Dr John Scadding, Hon. Consultant Neurologist Emeritus, National
Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London; Dr
Anthony Daniels, writer and former psychiatrist, Bridgnorth; Dr Adrian
Crisp, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and Chair of the Churchill
Archives Committee at Churchill College; Dr John Launer, General
Practitioner and Editorial Board member, Postgraduate Medical Journal.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amongst
questions for discussion are those relating to the impact of his acute
and recurrent illnesses – and his tobacco smoking, alcohol and other
habits – on his ‘mental capacity’, ability to focus and thus on key
decisions during his political life, not least those influencing
outcomes in the key theatres of the Second World War, planning for the
peace at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, and his final years as Prime
Minister. It is tempting for example to speculate that the very
treatment aimed at protecting him from illness in Yalta may have instead
impaired Churchill's decision-making during that critical conference
with fellow leaders and political rivals. </span></span><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Interesting as a
pharmacologist to see notes of adverse drug reactions [from mepacrine to
sulfonamides] as a likely cause of some of Churchill's illnesses; and
comments on public awareness, and Churchill’s and his wife’s perception
of treatments (e.g. with mepacrine or “M & B”) as causes of not
feeling very well. The documented idea of “treatment worse than the
cure’” must go back at least to inspirations for the Hammurabi Code. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;">Discussion
of Churchill's North African visit touches on a facet of the “VIP
syndrome”, from his remarkable efforts to find reasons to avoid medical
advice to his eventually conceding to his physician Moran.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/health-of-world-leaders-winston-churchills-illnesses/" target="_blank">Click here for more about the book, the authors and the panel</a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-634883123693034622020-03-30T14:30:00.000-07:002020-03-30T14:30:04.177-07:00Poems to live for: live webinars from the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span id="goog_924839705"></span><span id="goog_924839706"></span>To raise spirits in these very troubled times, the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/poetry-and-medicine-events-2/poems-to-live-for-live-2.html" target="_blank">Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine</a> is launching a series of live webinars on <b><i>Poems to live for</i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">See the </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/poetry-and-medicine-events-2/poems-to-live-for-live-2.html" target="_blank"><i><b>Poems to Live for </b></i></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">website for details about how to join the sessions by</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"> computer/laptop/smartphone or by dialling in by phone.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">There will be discussions on poetry. Invited p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">oets
around the world will read a poem that seems full of the spirit that's
worth living for, and will say why this poem means so much to him/her. Sessions will also provide updates from the 2020 Hippocrates Prize and other
activities of the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">The organisers also welcome suggestions for poems in English (out of copyright) from contributors from anywhere in the world would like
read. Contributors should email suggestions or a link to a reading of a favourite poem (must not
your own AND must be out of copyright). </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">Please email your suggestions or links to a reading to <a href="mailto:hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com">hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">Programme for the first live session:</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><b style="color: black;">Poems to Live for </b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><b style="color: black;">Session 1</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">Wednesday 8th April 9pm UK time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><b style="color: black;"><br />Introduction</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;">Michael Hulse</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><b><br />Contributors</b><br />Michael
Hulse, UK, Luz Mar Gonzales, Spain, Geoffrey Lehmann,
Australia, Professor John Stein, UK, Lawrence Sail, UK, Donald Singer,
UK.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><b><br />Short-lists announced for the 2020 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine</b>Open shortlist: announced by judge Geoffrey Lehmann, Australia<br />Health Professional shortlist announced by judge Professor John Stein, UK<br />Young poets short list: announced by judge Lawrence Sail, UK</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14px;"><b><br />Readers include </b><br />Michael Hulse, UK<br />Luz Mar Gonzales, Spain</span></div>
Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-29952515089909970642020-03-27T13:54:00.000-07:002020-03-27T13:56:48.268-07:00European Medicines Agency advises continued use of medicines to treat hypertension, heart failure and kidney disease<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">EMA reports that it is aware of recent <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanres/PIIS2213-2600(20)30116-8.pdf" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">media reports and publications</span></a> which question whether some medicines, for instance angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs, or sartan medicines), could worsen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" target="_self"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">coronavirus disease (COVID-19)</span></a>. ACE inhibitors and ARBs are most commonly used for treating patients with high blood pressure, heart failure or kidney disease. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The EMA has providing the following </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -2.2px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">advice from its Public and Stakeholders Engagement Department.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">"It is important that patients do not interrupt their treatment with ACE inhibitors or ARBs and there is no need to switch to other medicines. There is currently no evidence from clinical or epidemiological studies that establishes a link between ACE inhibitors or ARBs and the worsening of COVID-19. Experts in the treatment of heart and blood pressure disorders, including the European Society of Cardiology, have already issued statements along those lines. To gather more evidence, EMA is proactively reaching out to researchers working to generate further evidence in epidemiological studies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">As the public health crisis rapidly extends across the globe, scientific research is ongoing to understand how the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reproduces in the body, interacts with the immune system and causes disease, and whether ongoing treatment with medicines such as ACE-inhibitors and ARBs could impact the prognosis of COVID-19.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">The speculation that ACE-inhibitors or ARBs treatment can make infections worse in the context of COVID-19 is not supported by clinical evidence. These medicines work by affecting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS). Because the virus uses a target called angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is part of this system, to enter human cells, and the medicines can increase ACE2, one of the suggestions among others is that they could also increase virus activity. However, the interactions of the virus with the RAAS in the body are complex and not completely understood.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">EMA is monitoring the situation closely and is collaborating with stakeholders to coordinate epidemiological studies on the effects of ACE inhibitors and ARBs in people with COVID-19.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">EMA is helping to coordinate urgent ongoing research and is fully committed to keep the public up to date with any development in this field. EMA is also aware of reports questioning whether other medicines such as corticosteroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (<a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-gives-advice-use-non-steroidal-anti-inflammatories-covid-19" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">NSAIDs</a>) could worsen COVID-19, and has recently issued a communication on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-gives-advice-use-non-steroidal-anti-inflammatories-covid-19" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">NSAIDs</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>medicines. It is important that patients who have any questions or are uncertain about their medicines speak to their doctor or pharmacist and do not stop their regular treatment without speaking to their healthcare professional first.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Medicines should be prescribed and used in line with clinical judgement, taking due note of any warnings and other information provided in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/summary-product-characteristics" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="A document describing the properties and the officially approved conditions of use of a medicine. Summaries of product characteristics form the basis of information for healthcare professionals on how to use the medicine safely and effectively. Abbreviate"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">summary of product characteristics</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(SmPC) and the<a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/package-leaflet" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="The leaflet in every pack of medicine that contains information on the medicine for end-users, such as patients and animal owners."><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">package leaflet</span></a>, as well as guidance issued by the WHO and relevant national and international bodies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Within the EU medicines regulatory network, evidence on the safe use of medicines is reviewed as it emerges. Any new advice that arises is disseminated appropriately through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/coronavirus-disease-covid-19" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">EMA</span></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/partners-networks/eu-partners/eu-member-states/national-competent-authorities-human" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">national competent authorities</span></a>.</span></span></span></div>
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Medicine</i> is partnering with its journals – <i>Health Policy and Technology</i>
and the <i>Postgraduate Medical Journal</i> – to launch <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/2020/02/05/fpm-international-awards-for-medical-writing-in-social-media/" target="_blank">international awards for well-informed, clear writing on health matters in social media. </a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Patients, members
of the public, health professionals and policymakers increasingly use social
media as a source for health information and to guide important decisions on
choices and actions about prevention and treatment of disease. Where the
information is accurate and easy to follow, this can be very helpful. However,
we are increasingly at the mercy of a spectrum of unreliability, from
incomplete or inaccurate reports, to claims that inconvenient truths are ‘fake
news’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These are not new
problems. Sinclair Lewis in his geopolitical satire of 1935<a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/306/306013/it-can-t-happen-here/9780241310663.html" target="_blank"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It Can’t Happen Here</i></a> refers to fake news
in the political domain [1]. George Orwell features unreliable reporting by
government-controlled media in his dystopian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/1949/jun/10/georgeorwell.classics" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984</i></a> [2]. However, the geographical reach and speed of spread of
reports in current social media and present numerous ways to disseminate
‘alternative facts’ have new global <a href="https://pmj.bmj.com/content/postgradmedj/96/1133/179.full.pdf" target="_blank">implications for the consequences ofunreliable ‘news’</a> [3].</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Concerns in the
health sector include social media posts making spurious health claims for ‘alternative
medicines’ and containing misinformation about causes, severity and treatments
of disease – from <a href="http://Frédéric Lemaître. China denounces being placed under quarantine. Le Monde. 4th February 2020." target="_blank">coronaviruses</a> [4] and <a href="http://www.nat.org.uk/press-release/hiv-fake-news-nat-sets-out-tackle-misinformation" target="_blank">HIV infection</a> [5] to <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118093" target="_blank">cancers</a> [6]. A
striking example of the serious impact on the public of misinformation is a
sustained <a href="http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisation-vaccines/vaccine-hesitancy" target="_blank">large increase in vaccine hesitancy</a> for measles and other
immunisations since the late 1990s [7]. This arose from a later <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20137807" target="_blank">withdrawn report in the Lancet </a>of a link between autism and measles immunisation [8]. Although findings
in the report were judged to be fraudulent, anti-vaccine activists persist in
providing misleading information on social media based on this report. Particularly
worrying is how difficult it continues to be for international public health
authorities to counter this vaccine hesitancy. Immunisation rates against
measles remain sub-optimal 22 years after the original flawed report [8]. Social
media undoubtedly plays a role here, and its potency is reflected in the fact
that <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211883718300881" target="_blank">just one source is enough to disseminate and propagate untruths</a> [9].
However, this very potency also represents a means to inform and educate patients,
members of the public, health professionals and policymakers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The <i>FPM International Awards for Medical Writing in
Social Media</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> are new annual awards for medical graduates
from anywhere in the world. To be eligible, an article or blog must be in
English and should have been published online between 1st July 2019 and the
closing date for the awards: 30th June 2020. There will be up to 5 prizes per
year. Each award winner will receive a £100 prize. Award winners will also have
winning content published in one of the FPM’s journals, either <i>Health Policy
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-54507482029030422342020-03-25T15:51:00.004-07:002020-03-25T15:51:28.360-07:00COVID-19: Beware of falsified medicines from unregistered websites<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">The EMA
is urging the general public not to buy medicines from unauthorised
websites and other vendors aiming to exploit fears and concerns during
the ongoing pandemic of
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coronavirus disease (COVID-19)</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Vendors
may claim that their products can treat or prevent COVID-19 or may
appear to provide easy access to legitimate medicines that are otherwise
not readily available. Such products
are likely to be <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/falsified-medicine&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNGJZDQWi9fYjRHPdXlrIT-jvZysPQ" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/falsified-medicine" target="_blank" title="A fake medicine that passes itself off as a real, authorised medicine.
More information is available under 'Falsified medicines - overview'. ">
<span style="color: #004494;">falsified medicines</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/falsified-medicines-overview&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNGCRVPmpbX1m3Nv40LZAIYSkoRUGg" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/falsified-medicines-overview" target="_blank">Falsified medicines</a>
are fake medicines that vendors
pass off as real or authorised. They may contain the wrong or no active
ingredient or the right ingredient in the wrong amount. They may also
contain very harmful substances that should not be in medicines. Taking
such products can lead to severe health problems
or a worsening of your condition.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">To
protect yourself from fraudulent vendors, only buy medicines from a
local pharmacy or retailer or from an online pharmacy that is registered
with the
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/national-competent-authority&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNFZ1TPTYDccocKphn3A87NCeFNNBw" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/national-competent-authority" target="_blank" title="A medicines regulatory authority in a European Union Member State.">
<span style="color: #004494;">national competent authorities</span></a>. You can find the
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/falsified-medicines/buying-medicines-online%23list-of-registers-of-online-medicine-retailers-section&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNFh1pMkIDtGzwmKcCRWrlM8qNbGgQ" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/falsified-medicines/buying-medicines-online#list-of-registers-of-online-medicine-retailers-section" target="_blank">
lists of registered online pharmacies in EU countries</a> via EMA’s website or directly from websites of the
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/partners-networks/eu-partners/eu-member-states/national-competent-authorities-human&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNHjyMKKd09QRspVMq6yK65oUN-Z8g" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/partners-networks/eu-partners/eu-member-states/national-competent-authorities-human" target="_blank">
national competent authorities</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">All registered online pharmacies have a
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/falsified-medicines/buying-medicines-online%23look-out-for-the-logo-section&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNF3LDKqKVmHk6hXeKPIOcA5ql05kg" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/overview/public-health-threats/falsified-medicines/buying-medicines-online#look-out-for-the-logo-section" target="_blank">
common logo</a> which you can use to confirm that the site is
registered. The logo consists of a rectangle with horizontal stripes and
a white cross placed in the left half of the rectangle adjacent to the
midline. Below this is the flag of the EU country where
the online pharmacy is registered.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Before
buying a medicine from a site, check that the site has the logo and
then click on it. You will then be taken
to the website of your national authority and shown a list of all
legally operating online pharmacies. Check that the online pharmacy you
have visited is listed there before continuing with your purchase. If it
is not listed, do not buy any medicine from that
site.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/falsified-medicine&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNGJZDQWi9fYjRHPdXlrIT-jvZysPQ" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/falsified-medicine" target="_blank" title="A fake medicine that passes itself off as a real, authorised medicine.
More information is available under 'Falsified medicines - overview'. "><span style="color: #004494;">Falsified
medicines</span></a> can cause serious harm</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">When buying over the internet, only use registered online pharmacies</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Check that the online pharmacy you are using has the common logo</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Click on the logo and confirm that the online pharmacy is listed on the national authority website</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Do
not buy medicines advertised as cures or preventive treatments for
COVID-19. To treat COVID-related symptoms such as fever, discuss with
your doctor or follow advice from authorities</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></li>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">The public is reminded that there are currently no treatments authorised for COVID-19. Medicines are available for treating
symptoms such as fever in line with advice from your doctor or pharmacist.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">In the event of a shortage of any medicines, you should follow the advice of your doctor, pharmacist or
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/national-competent-authority&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNFZ1TPTYDccocKphn3A87NCeFNNBw" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/national-competent-authority" target="_blank" title="A medicines regulatory authority in a European Union Member State.">
<span style="color: #004494;">national competent authority</span></a>. You can find some
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/post-authorisation/availability-medicines/shortages-catalogue%23national-registers-section&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNF-7cyzlz0m7P2kZ6bEUWxFzmSigw" href="http://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/post-authorisation/availability-medicines/shortages-catalogue#national-registers-section" target="_blank">
information about ongoing shortages</a> on the websites of EMA and the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/national-competent-authority&source=gmail&ust=1585148985219000&usg=AFQjCNFZ1TPTYDccocKphn3A87NCeFNNBw" href="https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/glossary/national-competent-authority" target="_blank" title="A medicines regulatory authority in a European Union Member State.">
<span style="color: #004494;">national competent authorities</span></a>.</span></div>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-85944134043077800692019-06-30T06:23:00.003-07:002019-06-30T07:48:45.323-07:00European cooperation on healthcare discussed at FPM-HPT conference at Erasmus University in Rotterdam<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">European cooperation is crucial for providing the highest possible quality of healthcare for the ~740 million citizens on the continent. Innovations in European healthcare also have a vital impact on global health.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many international organizations and institutes participate in European projects and initiatives on research, clinical care and health policy to achieve health goals that would be unattainable when operating solely within one’s own country.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There are also funding, ethical and political challenges to effective European cooperation on healthcare, including an impending possible Brexit. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The latest Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine conference was held at Erasmus University in Rotterdam in the Netherlands on 21<sup>st</sup> June 2019 to consider European Cooperation on Healthcare. The aim was to provide a forum for discussing best practice across the above key healthcare domains.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The conference was jointly hosted by the FPM’s Elsevier-published journal Health Policy and Technology and the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM), with as local organisers Associate Professor Ken Redekop (HPT Editor-in-Chief) and researcher Lytske Bakker (HPT Commissioning Editor). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Content from the meeting will appear in the HPT journal as Editorials, commentaries, review articles and <i>Meet the Expert</i> reports, with associated short video interviews with speakers posted on the HPT and FPM websites.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ron
de Winter from the Department of Epidemiology at the University Medical
Center in Utrecht, The Netherlands discussed combating multi-drug
bacterial resistance in the multi-country European COMBACTE
public-private partnership.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Poster presenters and European Reference Network Project Managers Olivia Spivack and <span class="st">Renée</span> de Ruiter.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Barbara Pierscionek, Associate Dean for Research at Nottingham Trent University discussed ethical and legal challenges when developing joint programmes involving European cooperation on healthcare. Issues include maintaining confidentiality when sharing real world data within Registries and other Big health Data.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pharmacist Liese Barbier, European Medicines Agency, discussed European Medicines Agency perspectives on regulating biosimilars. She stressed the importance of batch-level information when reporting any suspected adverse drug reactions from biosimilars or corresponding biological medicines.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jorge Gonzalez, Spain, spoke on the EU funding supported inDemand model now operating in Spain, France and Finland, with additional network partners throughout Europe. InDemand makes a virtue of needs-driven rather than technology-driven project commissioning as a more reliable approach to ensuring adoption of new approaches into clinical practice. Examples included mobile health applications to reduce weight in obese children and e-health systems to support management of women in pregnancy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marcus Guardian, CEO of EUnetHTA, The European Network for Health Technology Assessment discussed his organisation’s role in cross-border assessment of health technology.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="IMG_E7069" class=" wp-image-1380 alignright" height="250" src="https://thefpmuk.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/img_e7069.jpg" width="275" /> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ines Hernando from the EURORDIS-Rare Diseases Europe organization discussed the initial impact of the 2017 European Reference Network Directive to improve the care of the ~ 30 million patients in Europe with rare diseases. The new European Reference Networks are already providing virtual common rare disease management support platforms for health professionals across the European region.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marjan Hummel from Philips in Einthoven discussed early health technology assessment in the medical device industry and resulting international implications for streamlining development of new health technologies.<br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zoltan Kalo, Professor of Health Economics at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest discussed ways to improve equity in allocation of healthcare research funds by the European Union. Currently there appears to be a disproportionate allocation of EU research awards to EU15 countries. This both disadvantages research capacity development in EU13 countries and leads to a ‘brain drain’ of researchers from EU13 to EU15 research centres.<br /></span></span><br />
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host Ken Redekop, Editor-in-Chief of the FPM’s Elsevier-published
Health Policy and Technology journal, discussed themes and opportunities
for publication in the journal on topics from across the
diagnostics/drugs/devices/e-health spectrum complemented by papers on
health technology adoption and associated health policy implications.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Donald Singer, President, Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, London discussed engaging with European health policy makers, including new networking opportunities between health professional and patient and consumer organisations and EU institutions such as the European Medicines Agency.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Carin Uyl-De Groot, head of health technology assessment at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management in Rotterdam discussed sustainability and affordability of innovative drugs. She described discussion with European policy makers on ways to reduce the cost of expensive biological treatments. Developing cross-border partnerships would create much greater bargaining power for purchasing medicines. For example, the EU region currently provides 40% of the market for most pharmaceuticals.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Respiratory physician Marlies Wijsenbeek from the Erasmus Medical Centre discussed patient registry development to improve management of and research into rare lung diseases, based on her work on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She noted the potential value of developing cross-border patient registries for rare diseases, to ensure larger patient populations then possible within individual countries. She also illustrated some of the challenges, e.g. when common data sets are not agreed and when the same patients may feature within different registries.</span></span><br />
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<br />Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-12275390021563754272019-02-20T14:12:00.000-08:002019-02-20T14:16:11.305-08:00Freshness, wonder and passion: enter the international Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine: deadline 1st March 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</b>Entries remain open for The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for
Poetry and Medicine – an international prize for a single unpublished
poem in English on a medical theme from <b>young poets aged 14-18 years</b> from anywhere in the world.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Entries are <b>free</b> for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The award for the winner is £500 (~ USD 670).<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The length of the poem should be not more than 50 lines of text in
addition to the title and any line breaks. The 2019 Hippocrates Young
Poets Prize is supported by healthy heart charity the <a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/">Cardiovascular Research Trust. </a> The charity has a particular interest in avoiding preventable heart disease through educating the young.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enter online, by email or post for the<a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/hippocrates-prizes-2010--/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/online-entry-for-the-2016.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/online-entry-for-the-2016.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine</a>.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Young
Poet entrants should be aged 14 – 18 years old on the closing
date for entries – 1st March 2019 – entrants can be from
anywhere in the
world. There have already been entries for the 2019
Hippocrates Young Poets Prize from 11 countries: Argentina, Australia,
England, Hong Kong, Ireland, Nigeria, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden,
Switzerland and the USA.<br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Short-listed and commended poets will be notified in early April.
Winners of the Hippocrates Young Poet Prize and the FPM-Hippocrates
Awards will be announced at the 2019 Hippocrates Awards Ceremony,
which will be hosted by the Centre for Life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in
England.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heart charity patron Leslie Morgan OBE DL said: “The CVRT is
delighted to have such international interest in the Hippocrates Young
Poets Prize. The CVRT is also grateful that the 2019 Hippocrates Awards
Ceremony will be held at the Centre for Life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in
the UK at the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/10th-annual-hippocrates/index.html">10th annual international Hippocrates conference on poetry and medicine</a>, which is being jointly organised by the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine and the <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/">Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New Zealand poet and novelist Elizabeth Smither will judge the
Hippocrates international Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
Elizabeth Smither said: “Young poets have something that old poets
don’t. Freshness, wonder, passion before the difficulty of being a poet
is fully understood. No fear at looking at the blank page or blank
screen. The whole world of words at their feet.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a prize fund of £5500 for winning poems in the Open
International category and international health professional category,
and £500 for the international Young Poets Award, the Hippocrates Prize
is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single
poem.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Judges for the 2019 Hippocrates international Open Prize and Health
Professional Prize (deadline 14th February) are UK journalist and
broadcaster Kate Adie CBE, DL; American-Mexican poet and novelist
Jennifer Clement, International President of PEN
International; and physician Professor Dame Jane Dacre, who is immediate
past-president of the UK Royal College of Physicians in London and a
Professor of Medical Education. Jennifer Clement said: “When science and
poetry come together this often creates great literature.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Co-organiser Donald Singer said: “We are delighted to have such a
distinguished panel of judges for the 2019 Hippocrates Prize. We are
also grateful that the 2019 Hippocrates Awards Ceremony will be hosted
by the Centre for Life in Newcastle in partnership with the <u>Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts</u>.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Centre Director Professor Sinéad Morrissey added: “The Newcastle
Centre for the Literary Arts is delighted to co-host this important
international poetry prize – one which is growing in status and
reputation each year, making vital contributions to both fields of
knowledge.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Co-organiser Michael Hulse said: “Our tenth anniversary year promises
to be one of real distinction, and we look forward eagerly to reading
the poems that take this year’s prizes and commendations.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The International Hippocrates Prize is awarded in three categories:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">– a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the
FPM-Hippocrates Open category, which anyone in the world may enter.
There are a further ~20 commendations in the Open category</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">– a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the
FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional category, which is open to Health
Service employees, health students and those working in professional
organisations anywhere in the world involved in education and training
of health professional students and staff. There are a further ~20
commendations in the Health Professional category</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">– a £500 award for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for an
unpublished poem in English on a medical theme. Entries are open to
young poets from anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years. There are
further commendations in the Young Poets category. There is no entry fee
for the Young Poets prize.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <u>Hippocrates Initiative</u> for Poetry and Medicine – winner of
the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and Excellence in
the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that investigates the synergy
between medicine, the arts and health.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Notes for editors</b><br />
For more on the Hippocrates Prize contact +44 7494 450805 or email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Support for the 2019 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2019 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>,
a healthy heart charity founded in 1996, which promotes research and
education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and
circulation. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding
preventable heart disease through educating school students.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2019 FPM-Hippocrates Open Awards and FPM-Hippocrates Health Professional Awards are supported by the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>.
The FPM, founded in 1918, is a UK medical society which publishes the
international journals the Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health
Policy and Technology.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2019 Hippocrates Judges</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2019 Hippocrates Awards judging panel includes BBC journalist
Kate Adie from the UK, US-Mexican poet and novelist Jennifer Clement,
and past-president of the UK Royal College of Physicians Professor Dame
Jane Dacre, for the International Open and International Health
Professional categories; and, for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize,
poet and novelist Elizabeth Smither from New Zealand.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Kate Adie</b> became a familiar figure through her work as BBC Chief News Correspondent. She is the long-serving presenter of Radio 4’s <i>From Our Own Correspondent </i>and
a presenter or contributor to many other radio and television
programmes. She has served as a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction,
now the Bailey’s, and the Whitbread, now the Costa Prize, and recently,
the RSL Ondaatje Prize. Kate was honoured with a Bafta Fellowship in
2018 and received a CBE in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Other
awards include: Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year 1980, for
her coverage of the SAS end to the Iranian Embassy siege; Winner, 1981
& 1990, Monte Carlo International Golden Nymph Award; The Richard
Dimbleby BAFTA Award 1990.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Jennifer Clement</b> is the President of PEN
International and the first woman to be elected as its President in 100
years. Under her leadership the PEN International Women’s Manifesto was
created. Clement has published four books of poetry including <i>The Next Stranger</i> (with an introduction by W.S. Merwin). She is the author of <i>A True Story Based on Lies, The Poison That Fascinates, Prayers for the Stolen </i>and<i> Gun Love</i>. She also wrote the acclaimed<i> </i>memoir <i>Widow Basquiat</i> on
New York City in the 1980’s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Her
books have been translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of
the Canongate Prize, Sara Curry Humanitarian Award, the Gran Prix des
Lectrices Lyceenes de ELLE, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA
Fellowship, and her books have twice been a <i>New York Times</i> Editor’s Choice Book. <i>Prayers for the Stolen</i> was both a PEN/Faulkner Prize and Femina Prize finalist. Her recent novel <i>Gun Love</i> is an Oprah Book Club Selection as well as being a National Book Award finalist. She lives in Mexico City.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Elizabeth Smither</b> has published 18 collections of
poetry. She was New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003, and was
awarded an Hon DLitt by Auckland University and the Prime Minister’s
Award for Literary Achievement in 2008. She also writes novels, journals
and short stories, and is widely published in Australia, Britain and
USA. She was awarded the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in 2016 and her most
recent poetry collection, <i>Night Horse, </i>won the Ockham NZ Book Award for poetry in 2018.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Professor Dame Jane Dacre </b>DBE, MD, FRCP is a UK
consultant rheumatologist and Professor of Medical Education. She is the
immediate past president of the London Royal College of Physicians and
was vice chair of the Association of Medical Research Charities,
Director of University College of London Medical School, MD of MRCPUK
and academic VP of the RCP. She is the lead for the DHSC independent
review into the gender pay gap in medicine, and the President of the
Medical Protection Society. She won the medicine and healthcare category
2012 of Women in the City Woman of Achievement Award; was named on the
HSJ inaugural list of 50 inspirational women in healthcare in 2013; was
named in the science and medicine category for people of influence <i>Debrett’s</i> 500 in 2015, 2016 and 2017; and was named on the HSJ top 100 list from 2014 to 2017.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Organisers of the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine</b><br />
Professor Donald Singer is a clinical pharmacologist and President of
the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. His interests include research
on discovery of new therapies, and public understanding of drugs, health
and disease. Professor Michael Hulse is a poet and translator of German
literature, and teaches creative writing and comparative literature at
the University of Warwick. His latest book of poems, <i>Half-Life</i> (2013), was named a Book of the Year by John Kinsella.</span></span></div>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-25577638623343637762019-02-12T09:05:00.000-08:002019-02-12T09:05:37.776-08:00Still time to submit an abstract for the EACPT Congress in Sweden: 29th June to 2nd July 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next EACPT Congress will be held from 29th June to 2nd July in
2019 in Stockholm as a partnership between the EACPT and the Swedish
Society for Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. </span><br />
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Congress will address <strong><em>Tomorrow’s Healthcare Challenges</em></strong> and will be held at the City Conference Centre – 5 minutes from Stockholm Central Station.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://b-com.mci-group.com/AbstractSubmission/EACPT2019.aspx">Abstract closing date extended to 14th March.</a></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The Congress Reception on the evening of Saturday 29th June, will be held at <a href="https://international.stockholm.se/the-city-hall/">Stockholm City Hall</a>, the venue of the <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremonies/menus-at-the-nobel-banquet/">Nobel Prize banquet.</a></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Keynote Opening Lecture will be given by the President at the
Karolinska Institute, Professor Ole Petter Ottersen, on global health
and clinical pharmacology.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around 60 invited speakers are expected from throughout Europe and
beyond. Congress keynote lectures, sessions and themes will include:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Advanced therapies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chronic disease</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinical pharmacologists versus computers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Closing the money gap</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drug regulation in the 2020’s</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EACPT meets Asian Societies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EPHAR-EACPT joint symposium on personalised medicine</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ethics in clinical research</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Global Health</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to become a clinical pharmacologist</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to measure drug exposure</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to measure drug use</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to perform a health economic study</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interprofessional exchange for better drug treatment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Misuse of medicines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patient empowerment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Preparing tomorrow’s prescribers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prescribing and deprescribing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Targeting small populations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The critically ill patient</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Treating ageing populations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Treating cancer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Treating children</span></li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Major awards to be presented at the Stockholm Congress include the
EACPT Lifetime Achievement Award and the biennial EACPT Scientific Award
for best publication on a clinical pharmacology or therapeutic theme.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opportunities for EACPT Associate Members include<br />
* discounted registration fees for EACPT meetings<br />
* networking with colleagues worldwide through the global EACPT network of Associate Members<br />
* active involvement in EACPT Working Parties and other activities</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.eacpt.eu/register/">Find out how to become an Associate Member of the EACPT</a></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Future EACPT Congresses will be held in:<br />
– 2021 Athens<br />
– 2023 Rotterdam</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The EACPT was founded in 1993 and now includes as members all
national organisations for clinical pharmacology in Europe, as well as
organisations from further afield internationally. The EACPT aims to
provide educational and scientific support for the more than 4000
individual professionals interested in clinical pharmacology and
therapeutics throughout the European region, with its congresses
attended by a global audience. The EACPT also advises policy makers on
how the specialty can contribute to human health and wealth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The
Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine is an
international prize for a single unpublished poem in English on a
medical theme. The length of the poem should be not more than 50 lines
of text in addition to the title and any line breaks. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Entrants should be aged 14 - 18 years old on the closing date for entries - 1st March.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Entries are free for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The award for the winner is £500 (~ USD 670). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Entries
for the 2019 Hippocrates Young Poet Poetry and Medicine Prize close
at 12 midnight ie the end of the day on 1st March 2019 in the
international time zone for entrants or - if by mail - postmarked on1st
March at latest. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Enter online, by email or post for the</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/hippocrates-prizes-2010--/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/online-entry-for-the-2016.html" style="color: #0096ff;" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/online-entry-for-the-2016.html" style="color: #0096ff; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine</a></span><span style="color: #0433ff; font-family: "arial";">.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />The Hippocrates Young Poets Prize</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">is supported by healthy heart vharity the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="http://healthyheartcharity.com/" style="font-family: Arial;">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>, <span style="font-family: "arial";">which promotes education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and circulation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";"><br />Since its launch in 2013, the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine has attrac</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">ted entries from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia, with winners from the USA, the UK and Hong Kong. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />Heart charity patron Leslie Morgan OBE DL said: “The CVRT is delighted to have such
international interest in the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize. The CVRT is also
grateful that the 2019 Hippocrates Awards Ceremony will be held at the
Centre for Life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK at the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/10th-annual-hippocrates/index.html" target="_blank">10th annual international Hippocrates conference on poetry and medicine</a>, which is being jointly organised by </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine and the </span><a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">New
Zealand poet and novelist Elizabeth Smither will judge the Hippocrates
international Young Poet Prize for Poetry and Medicine (age 14-18 years;
deadline 1<sup>st</sup> March). Elizabeth Smither said: “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">Young
poets have something that old poets don’t. Freshness, wonder, passion
before the difficulty of being a poet is fully understood. No fear at
looking at the blank page or blank screen. The whole world of words at
their feet.” </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br />Shortlisted
poets will be informed by email and information about the shortlist and
the commended entries posted on the Hippocrates Prize website. The
winners in the 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize will be announced at
the Hippocrates Awards ceremony on Friday 11th May 2018 at the Poetry
Foundation in Chicago.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">The <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/">Hippocrates Initiative</a> for
Poetry and Medicine – winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award
for Innovation and Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary
venture that investigates the synergy between medicine, the arts and
health.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Notes for editors</b><br />For more on the Hippocrates Prize contact +44 7494 450805 or email <a href="mailto:hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com">hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com</a>
<br /><br /><b>2019 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize judge </b></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";"><b>Elizabeth Smithers</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth Smithers</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> is a poet who lives in New Zealand. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth
Smither has published 18 collections of poetry. She was Te Mata Poet
Laureate (2001-3), and was awarded an Hon DLitt by Auckland University
and the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2008. She
also writes novels, journals and short stories, and is widely published
in Australia, Britain and USA. She was awarded the Sarah Broom Poetry
Prize in 2016 and her most recent poetry collection, </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Night Horse, </i><span style="font-family: "arial";">won the Ockham NZ Book Award for poetry in 2018.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>Hippocrates Prize Organisers</b><br />Professor
Donald Singer is a clinical pharmacologist and President of the
Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. His interests include research on
discovery of new therapies, and public understanding of drugs, health
and disease. Professor Michael Hulse is a poet and translator of German
literature, and teaches creative writing and comparative literature at
the University of Warwick. He is also editor of The Warwick Review. His
latest book of poems, <i>Half-Life</i> (2013), was named a Book of the Year by John Kinsella.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial";">
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launch
in 2009, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted around 10,000 entries from
over
70 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Entries
for the 10<sup>th</sup> annual Hippocrates Prize close on 14<sup>th</sup>
February (1st March for the Hippocrates Young Poet Prize).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Awards
in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up
to 50 lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world.
Previous winners have come from Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK
and the USA.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">With
a prize fund of £5500 for winning poems in the Open International
category and NHS category, and £500 for the Young Poets Award, the
Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world
for a single poem.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/2019-hippocrates-prize-for/online-entry-2019-hippocrat.html">Enter online for the Hippocrates awards</a></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Judges for the 2019 Hippocrates
international Open Prize and Health Professional Prize (deadline 14th
February) are UK journalist and broadcaster Kate Adie CBE, DL; American-Mexican
poet and novelist Jennifer Clement, International President of PEN
International; and physician Professor Dame Jane Dacre, who
is immediate past-president of the UK Royal College of Physicians in
London and a Professor of Medical Education. Jennifer Clement said: “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">When science
and poetry come together this often creates great literature.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">New Zealand poet and novelist Elizabeth Smither
will judge the Hippocrates international Young Poet Prize for Poetry and
Medicine. Elizabeth
Smither said: “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Young poets have
something that old poets don’t. Freshness, wonder, passion before the
difficulty of being a poet is fully understood. No fear at looking at the blank
page or blank screen. The whole world of words at their feet.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Co-organiser Donald Singer said:
“We are delighted to have such a distinguished panel of judges for the 2019
Hippocrates Prize. We are also grateful that the 2019 Hippocrates Awards
Ceremony will be hosted by the Centre for Life in Newcastle in partnership with
the </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts</span></u><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Centre Director Professor Sinéad Morrissey added: “The Newcastle Centre
for the Literary Arts is delighted to co-host this important international
poetry prize – one which is growing in status and reputation each year, making
vital contributions to both fields of knowledge.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Co-organiser
Michael Hulse said: “Our tenth anniversary year promises to be one of real
distinction, and we look forward eagerly to reading the poems that take this
year’s prizes and commendations.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Awards
in the Hippocrates Prize are for an unpublished poem in English of up to 50
lines on a medical theme by entrants from anywhere in the world. Previous
winners have come from Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">The International Hippocrates Prize is awarded in three categories:</span></div>
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a £1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the Hippocrates
Open category, which anyone in the world may enter. There are a further ~20
commendations in the Open category</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">- a
£1000 first prize, £500 second prize and £250 third prize in the Health
Professional category, which is open to Health Service employees, health
students and those working in professional organisations anywhere in the world
involved in education and training of health professional students and staff.
There are a further ~20 commendations in the Health Professional category</span></div>
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a £500 award for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for an unpublished
poem in English on a medical theme. Entries are open to young poets from
anywhere in the world aged 14 to 18 years. There are further commendations in
the Young Poets category. There is no entry fee for the Young Poets prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">US
poet and 2018 Hippocrates Prize Judge Mark Doty said: “The humane and
moving work shortlisted for the Hippocrates Poetry Prizes testify to the power
of poetry to help us to negotiate the difficult in carefully crafted, artful
language”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Australian doctor, poet and 2018 Hippocrates Prize
Judge Peter Goldsworthy added: “There are many species of poem (in the
2018 Hippocrates Prize entries) - dark, poignant, epigrammatic, celebratory,
funny. I applaud the poets for their creativity and compassion.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Shortlisted
and commended poets will be informed by email and information about the
shortlist and the commended entries posted on the Hippocrates Prize website.
The winners in the 2019 Hippocrates Health Professional Prize will be announced
by the judges at the Hippocrates Awards ceremony on Friday 17th May 2019
in at the Centre for Life in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.<br />
</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">The</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> </span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Hippocrates Initiative</span></u><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> for Poetry and
Medicine – winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation
and Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that investigates
the synergy between medicine, the arts and health.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Notes for editors</span></strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><br />
For more on the Hippocrates Prize
contact +44 7494 450805 or email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com </span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><strong>2019 Hippocrates Judges</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">The 2019 Hippocrates Awards judging panel includes BBC journalist Kate
Adie from the UK, US-Mexican poet and novelist Jennifer Clement, and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">past-president of
the UK Royal College of Physicians</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> Professor Dame Jane Dacre, for the International
Open and International Health Professional categories; and, for the Hippocrates
Young Poets Prize, poet and novelist Elizabeth Smither from New Zealand.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Kate
Adie</span></strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> became
a familiar figure through her work as BBC Chief News Correspondent. She is the
long-serving presenter of Radio 4’s <em>From Our Own Correspondent </em>and
a presenter or contributor to many other radio and television
programmes. She has served as a judge for the Orange Prize for Fiction,
now the Bailey’s, and the Whitbread, now the Costa Prize, and recently, the RSL
Ondaatje Prize. Kate was honoured with a Bafta Fellowship in 2018
and received a CBE in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours list. Other
awards include: Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year 1980, for her
coverage of the SAS end to the Iranian Embassy siege; Winner, 1981 & 1990,
Monte Carlo International Golden Nymph Award; The Richard Dimbleby BAFTA Award
1990.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Jennifer
Clement</span></strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> is the
President of PEN International and the first woman to be elected as its
President in 100 years. Under her leadership the PEN International Women’s
Manifesto was created. Clement has published four books of poetry
including <em>The Next Stranger</em> (with an introduction by W.S.
Merwin). She is the author of <em>A True Story Based on Lies, The
Poison That Fascinates, Prayers for the Stolen </em>and<em> Gun Love</em>.
She also wrote the acclaimed<em> </em>memoir <em>Widow Basquiat</em> on
New York City in the 1980’s and the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Her
books have been translated into 30 languages. She is the recipient of the Canongate
Prize, Sara Curry Humanitarian Award, the Gran Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de
ELLE, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship, and her books have twice
been a <em>New York Times</em> Editor’s Choice Book. <em>Prayers
for the Stolen</em> was both a PEN/Faulkner Prize and Femina Prize
finalist. Her recent novel <em>Gun Love</em> is an Oprah Book Club
Selection as well as being a National Book Award finalist. She lives in
Mexico City. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Elizabeth
Smither</span></strong><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"> has
published 18 collections of poetry. She was New Zealand’s Poet Laureate from 2001
to 2003, and was awarded an Hon DLitt by Auckland University and the Prime
Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in 2008. She also writes novels, journals
and short stories, and is widely published in Australia, Britain and USA. She
was awarded the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize in 2016 and her most recent poetry
collection, <em>Night Horse, </em>won the Ockham NZ Book Award for
poetry in 2018.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Professor Dame Jane Dacre </span></strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">DBE,
MD, FRCP is a UK consultant rheumatologist and Professor of Medical Education. She
is the immediate past president of the London Royal College of Physicians and
was vice chair of the Association of Medical Research Charities, Director of
University College of London Medical School, MD of MRCPUK and academic VP of
the RCP. She is the lead for the DHSC independent review into the gender pay
gap in medicine, and the President of the Medical Protection Society. She won
the medicine and healthcare category 2012 of Women in the City Woman of
Achievement Award; was named on the HSJ inaugural list of 50 inspirational
women in healthcare in 2013; was named in the science and medicine category for
people of influence <em>Debrett’s</em> 500 in 2015, 2016 and 2017; and
was named on the HSJ top 100 list from 2014 to 2017.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;">Organisers of the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine</span></strong><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px;"><br />
Professor Donald Singer is a clinical pharmacologist and
President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. His interests include
research on discovery of new therapies, and public understanding of drugs,
health and disease. Professor Michael Hulse is a poet and translator of German
literature, and teaches creative writing and comparative literature at the
University of Warwick. His latest book of poems, <em>Half-Life</em> (2013),
was named a Book of the Year by John Kinsella.</span></div>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-76556162798953986042018-08-30T15:44:00.002-07:002018-08-30T15:48:41.887-07:00Passamezzo concert of music, words and song from Shakespeare’s England in support of children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wednesday 25th July, 2018 in support of the children’s cancer charity
CLIC Sargent at the 5th in a series of annual charity musical evenings
organised by the <a href="https://worstedweavers.wordpress.com/2013/05/">Worsted Weavers Guild</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The performance was held in <a href="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/f-21-9-17-concert-st-james-church_-packington-estate1.pdf">St James’ Church</a> on the <a href="http://www.packingtonestate.net/estate_main.html">Packington Estate</a> in Warwickshire (~ 20 minutes north of Kenilworth), by generous permission of Lord and Lady Guernsey.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concert was followed by a reception in the <a href="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/f-21-9-17-concert-st-james-church_-packington-estate1.pdf">Pompeiian Room and on the terrace of </a>Packington Hall. The <a href="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/f-21-9-17-concert-st-james-church_-packington-estate1.pdf">Capability Brown</a> designed grounds and the <a href="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/f-21-9-17-concert-st-james-church_-packington-estate1.pdf">Diocletian-era inspired church</a> on the Packington Estate are not normally open to the public.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Touches of sweet harmony:<br />
</b><b>Music, words & song from Shakespeare’s England</b></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The broom/Jog on/Heartsease</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomas Morley: O Mistress mine</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Wilbye: There is a jewel</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Dowland: Paduan</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Wilson: Take, o take those lips away</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Robert Jones: Farewell dear love</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Whoope do me no harm</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Daphne</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: The Willow song</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Mad Tom of Bedlam</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Tomorrow it is St Valentine’s Day</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Bonny sweet Robin</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Packington’s Pound</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Wilson: Lawn as white as driven snow</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anon: Chorus of Mountebanks</span></span></li>
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<a href="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/p7250210.jpg?w=625" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" border="0" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-334" data-attachment-id="334" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"6","credit":"","camera":"PEN-F","caption":"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA","created_timestamp":"1532542965","copyright":"","focal_length":"46","iso":"1600","shutter_speed":"0.02","title":"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" data-large-file="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/p7250210.jpg?w=625?w=625" data-medium-file="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/p7250210.jpg?w=625?w=300" data-orig-file="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/p7250210.jpg?w=625" data-orig-size="4461,3346" data-permalink="https://worstedweavers.wordpress.com/2018/08/01/passamezzo-concert-on-shakespeares-england-performed-in-support-of-childrens-cancer-charity-clic-sargent/olympus-digital-camera-6/" height="240" src="https://worstedweavers.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/p7250210.jpg?w=625" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://passamezzo.co.uk/">Passamezzo </a></b>was founded by Tamsin Lewis in 2001, initially to explore the Jacobean Masque.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A passamezzo was a popular sixteenth century tune and dance. It could
be played and danced simply and enjoyed by anyone, but could also
become an exhibition piece, with virtuosic and showy divisions played
upon it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passomezzo founder Tamsin Lewis said: <span class="st">“</span>We
chose the name Passamezzo for ourselves because we feel it reflects the
character of our work: we provide a wide range of performances from the
very simple to the very elaborate, and pride ourselves on creating a
piece which suits your occasion perfectly.<span class="st">”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ensemble specialise in English Elizabethan and Jacobean
repertoire, the masque remaining an important part of their programming,
and concerts have a distinct theatrical air created by costume,
readings and presentation. The ensemble delights in all aspects of
musical life, from the intimacy of the lute song, to the brash
raucousness of the broadside ballad, from the sacred part song, to the
profane insanity of bedlamite mad songs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The programmes are carefully
researched with music frequently taken from manuscript sources,
unearthing pieces that have lain hidden for centuries. It is this range
of material and overall spectacle, combined with the informative and
accessible manner of their presentation, that makes Passamezzo such an
engaging group.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passamezzo often work with dancers and actors. They have played in a
great variety of venues including the British Museum; the Victoria and
Albert Museum; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; Hampton Court Palace and in
theatres, concert halls, stately homes, churches, palaces and ruins
throughout England.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Passamezzo also work with with Moroccan Sufi musicians, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EnsembleMogador/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Ensemble Mogador Soufie</a> performing 17th Century English and Moroccan music in both countries as part of the <a href="http://www.reepinfo.org/reep-in-morocco/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Shore To Shore Project</a></span></span></div>
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Guy’s and St Thomas’s, National Clinical Director for Stroke with NHS England,
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of educational programmes in all branches of postgraduate medicine. The FPM now
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those in training, to their teachers, and active clinicians, by publishing
papers on a wide range of topics relevant to clinical practice. Papers
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joanne Key from England has been announced by <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/judges-2018-hippocrates.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">judge Mark Doty</a> as the winner of the 2018 FPM Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine at an awards ceremony at the <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/">Poetry Foundation</a> in Chicago. Her winning poem was <em>Colony </em>which concerned the distress of her father during his final illness.</span></span><br />
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Leavesley from Droitwich in England who was awarded 2nd Prize for <em>At breaking point, </em>and jointly sharing the 3rd Prize Aniqah Choudhri from Didsbury in England for <em>Repeat Prescriptions </em>and<em> </em>Raphael Dagold from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan for <em>Pharmacology.</em></span></span><br />
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judge Alisha Kaplan, Michael Hulse and Rafael Campo at the awards event
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark Doty announced Inez Garzaniti from Pontiac in the USA as the
winner of the 2018 FPM Hippocrates Open Prize for Poetry and Medicine
for <em>Cranial Nerve Shadowbox </em>which was inspired by the functions and dysfunctions of cranial nerves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also in the running for the FPM Hippocrates Health Professional Prize
were surgeon Stephen Harvey from Nashville in the USA who was awarded
2nd Prize for <em>The Thirteenth Floor, </em>and sharing the 3rd Prize Maria Ji from Onehunga in New Zealand for <em>Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Patient and </em>Emma Storr from Leeds in England for <em>Six Week Check.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The judges for the Open and Health Professional awards were Carol
Rumens from Bangor in North Wales, Peter Goldsworthy from Adelaide in
Australia and Mark Doty from New York City. They also agreed
commendations for entrants from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England,
Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the USA – 19 in the Open category
and 20 in the Health Professional Category.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Hippocrates Young Poet Prize winner Taylor Fang</strong></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taylor Fang from Logan, Utah, USA was announced by <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/judges-2018-hippocrates.html">judge Alisha Kaplan</a> as the winner of the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/news/press-releases-2/candid-elegies-the-hippocra.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2018 </a><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/news/press-releases-2/candid-elegies-the-hippocra.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for Poetry and Medicine</a> at the awards ceremony at the <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/">Poetry Foundation</a> in Chicago. Her winning poem was <em>Letter to Body Made Hollow</em> and she was also shortlisted for <em>On the Evolution of Cancer.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With an awards fund of £5500 the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and
Medicine is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a
single unpublished poem. The 2018 Hippocrates Prize is supported by
medical charity the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a> and the healthy heart charity the <a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Entries for the 2018 Hippocrates prize were received from 37 countries and from 5 continents.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judge Carol Rumens said: “A good poem is like a blood transfusion. It
replenishes the body of words, the language in which the poem is
written. These prize-winning and commended poems sometimes highlight the
metaphorical possibilities of a scientific vocabulary: one of the
valuable aspects of the Hippocrates Prize is that it encourages such
creative cross-fertilisation. But they also demonstrate that the borders
stereotypically perceived between art and science cease to matter in
the heat of imaginative and lived engagement.“ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She added: “The health professionals write with empathy and a sense
of mystery, the ‘open category’ writers summon descriptive precision.
Their forms are rarely traditional, but grow organically from the
subject or the experience. So these poems celebrate language itself,
while relocating bodily events to a less time-haunted region, and
transforming some of the loneliest aspects of human experience to the
most vividly connective.“</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judge Mark Doty said: “Caring for the marvelous and fragile thing a
human body is, those who work in the healing professions live in
intimate relation with what it is to be alive. Every day they face our
vulnerability, as well as their own. That’s why so many have second
lives as poets; writing can be a way to keep their own hearts open,
giving form to feeling they must often hold at bay while they attend to
what patients need.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He added: ”The humane and moving work shortlisted for the Hippocrates
Poetry Prizes testify to the power of poetry to help us to negotiate
the difficult. In carefully crafted, artful language, they demonstrate
how the wellspring of compassion renews itself In us again and again.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judge Peter Goldsworthy said: ”Sometimes pus, sometimes a poem…but
always pain,’ the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai wrote, a near-perfect
poetic distillation of the costs of creativity, at least ‘sometimes’
Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain –
not even a fraction – leads to the partial consolations of art. But if
lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, poetry can offer
that same cleansing of emotional wounds – at least, again, ‘sometimes’.
As can humour; and jokes are a species of poem, sharing its same
search for precision, density, rhythm, timing – perfection.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He added: ”There are many species of poem here – dark,
poignant, epigrammatic celebratory, funny – which caused me many
headaches when judging their merits. How to separate apples from
oranges – and grapes, and melons, and durians? In the end I can only
applaud the endless capacity of the poets – and the language –
for creativity, for compassion, for generosity, for courage under fire –
and all their various subspecies of humour.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See more on the shortlisted and commended poets on the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/index.html">Hippocrates Poetry website.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The winners were announced at the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/events/2018-hippocrates-poetry-and.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2018 Hippocrates Awards ceremony</a> at
the Poetry Foundation in Chicago from 4pm on Friday 11th May when the
Hippocrates Awards Anthology was launched. There was also a reading at
the Poetry Foundation by Mark Doty from 7pm on Thursday 10th May, an
accompanying conference on poetry and medicine that morning and
afternoon at Northwestern University in Chicago, and a workshop on
poetry, medicine and art at Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art on Friday
evening, 11th May.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The winning, shortlisted and commended poems in the 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize have been published in the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-press/hippocrates-prize-anthologi/2018-hippocrates-prize.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2018 Hippocrates Prize Anthology</a> which was launched at the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/events/2018-hippocrates-poetry-and.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2018 Hippocrates Awards ceremony at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago on Friday 11th May.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it was launched in 2010, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted
over 8000 entries from over 60 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and
from Finland to Australasia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://femioyebode.wordpress.com/about/">___________________________________________________________________________</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Notes for editors</strong><br />
For photos of finalists, biographies and extracts of their poems, call 07494 450805 or email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/hippocrates-prizes-2010--/2017-hippocrates-prize-for/the-hippocrates-prize.html">Hippocrates Initiative</a> –
winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and
Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that
investigates the relationship between medicine and poetry.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>More on support for the 2018 Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and Medicine</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2018 Hippocrates Open Awards and Health Professional Awards are supported by the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>.
The FPM is a UK medical society founded in 1918, which publishes the
international journals the Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health
Policy and Technology.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>,
a healthy heart charity founded in 1996, which promotes research and
education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and
circulation. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding
preventable heart disease through educating school students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The 9th Annual Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is supported by:</strong></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://bioethics.northwestern.edu/">Center for Bioethics &
Medical Humanities, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/">Harvard Medical School</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.hippocrates-poetry.org/">Hippocrates Initiative
for Poetry & Medicine</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/">The Poetry Foundation</a></span></span></li>
</ul>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-91615518926309997622018-04-06T15:08:00.000-07:002018-04-06T15:10:25.020-07:00Clarity, wisdom, and resilience: shortlisted and commended young poets in the 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #262626;">With
£500 for the Young Poets Award, the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize for
Poetry and Medicine is one of the highest value poetry awards in the
world for a single poem by a young poet. The Young Poets award is
supported by </span>healthy heart charity the <a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2018 Hippocrates Young Poet Award is being judged by <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/2018-hippocrates-prize-for/judges-2018-hippocrates.html">Toronto poet Alisha Kaplan</a> who has shortlisted and commended poems from the USA and the UK.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the running for the £500 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize are Haemaru Chung from New York City, for <i>Alice; </i>Margot Armbruster, from Wisconsin, USA for <i>Husk; and </i>Taylor Fang from Logan, Utah, USA for two poems: <i>Letter to Body Made Hollow</i> and <i>On the Evolution of Cancer. </i> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following poets were commended: Miles Johnston McInerney from San Diego, USA for <i>20 Reasons Why I Can’t Order in a Restaurant; </i>Vivian Lu from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA for <i>Case Study on Grief; </i>Lara Wise from Oundle in England for <i>In Quarantine; </i>Sabina Holzman from Laguna Beach, California, USA for <i>Panic Attack as a House Fire in the City; </i>Shannon Lin from Santa Clara, California, USA for <i>Passing; </i>and<i> </i>Taylor Fang from Logan, Utah, USA for <i>Scale of Bone Density, Azure. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">About
the Young Poet entries she said: “I am in awe of the clarity, wisdom,
and resilience with which these young poets write. Weaving medical
language with lyrical, they give raw, honest depictions of both physical
and mental illness. These poems are written with the vision one can
gain when malady or death enters and pervades one’s world, changing its
colors, textures, tempo.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She
added: “There are many candid elegies to bodies transformed visibly or
invisibly by illness, addressed to loved ones as well as to the poets’
own selves. At times whispering, at times keening, these voices face
their pain and grief, and out of their suffering make something
beautiful, something true.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The winning, shortlisted and
commended poems in the 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize will be
published in the annual Hippocrates Prize Anthology. The 2018
Hippocrates Prize Anthology will be launched at the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/events/2018-hippocrates-poetry-and.html" target="_blank">2018 Hippocrates Awards ceremony at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago on Friday 11th May.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Notes for editors</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
For
photos of finalists, biographies and extracts of their poems, call 07494
450805 or email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/hippocrates-prizes-2010--/2017-hippocrates-prize-for/the-hippocrates-prize.html">Hippocrates Initiative</a>
–
winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and
Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that
investigates the relationship between medicine and poetry.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>More on support for the 2018 Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and Medicine</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>,
a healthy heart charity founded in 1996, which promotes research and
education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and
circulation. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding
preventable heart disease through educating school students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2018 Hippocrates Open Awards and Health Professional Awards are supported by
the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>.
The FPM is a UK medical
society founded in 1918, which publishes the international
journals the
Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health Policy and Technology. </span></span></div>
<div class="m_-499684260875019148MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 9th Annual Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is supported by:</b></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bioethics.northwestern.edu/">Center for Bioethics &
Medical Humanities, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/">Harvard Medical School</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.hippocrates-poetry.org/">Hippocrates Initiative
for Poetry & Medicine</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/">The Poetry Foundation</a></span></span></li>
</ul>
Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-90574340758223669902018-04-05T01:51:00.001-07:002018-04-08T16:34:42.986-07:00Caring for the marvelous and the fragile: shortlists announced for 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
judges - Carol Rumens from Bangor in North Wales, Peter Goldsworthy
from Adelaide in Australia and Mark Doty from New York City have just
agreed 4 shortlisted poets for the Health Professional Prize and a
further 4 shortlisted poets for the Open Prize. Entries for the 2018 Hippocrates prize were received from 37 countries and from 5 continents.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Competing for the Open Prize are Joanne Key from Crewe in England for <i>Colony, </i>Sarah Ann Leavesley from Droitwich in England for <i>At breaking point, </i>Aniqah Choudhri from Didsbury in England for <i>Repeat
Prescriptions and </i>Raphael Dagold from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan for <i>Pharmacology.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the running for the Health Professional Prize are Inez Garzaniti from Pontiac in the USA for <i>Cranial Nerve
Shadowbox, </i>Stephen Harvey from Nashville in the USA for <i>The Thirteenth
Floor, </i>Maria Ji from Onehunga in New Zealand for <i>Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Patient and </i>Emma Storr from Leeds in England for <i>Six Week Check.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Commendations
were also agreed for entrants from Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
England, Northern Ireland, Norway, Sweden and the USA - 19 in the Open
category and 20 in the Health Professional Category.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judge Carol Rumens said: “A good poem is like a blood transfusion. It replenishes the body of words, the language in which the poem is written. These prize-winning and commended poems sometimes highlight the metaphorical possibilities of a scientific vocabulary: one of the valuable aspects of the Hippocrates Prize is that it encourages such creative cross-fertilisation. But they also demonstrate that the borders stereotypically perceived between art and science cease to matter in the heat of imaginative and lived engagement.“</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judge Mark Doty said: “Caring for the marvelous and fragile thing a human body is, those who
work in the healing professions live in intimate relation with what it
is to be alive. Every day they face our vulnerability, as well as their
own. That’s why so many have second lives as poets; writing can be a
way to keep their own hearts open, giving form to feeling they must
often hold at bay while they attend to what patients need.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He added: ”The humane
and moving work shortlisted for the Hippocrates Poetry Prizes testify to
the power of poetry to help us to negotiate the difficult. In carefully
crafted, artful language, they demonstrate how the wellspring of
compassion renews itself In us again and again.” </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judge Peter Goldsworthy said: ”Sometimes pus, sometimes a poem…but always pain,’ the Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai wrote, a near-perfect poetic distillation of the costs of creativity, at least ‘sometimes’ Of course not all great art has its genesis in pain, and not all pain – not even a fraction – leads to the partial consolations of art. But if lancing an abscess is the surest way to healing, poetry can offer that same cleansing of emotional wounds - at least, again, ‘sometimes’. As can humour; and jokes are a species of poem, sharing its same search for precision, density, rhythm, timing - perfection.” <br />He added: ”There are many species of poem here - dark, poignant, epigrammatic, celebratory, funny - which caused me many headaches when judging their merits. How to separate apples from oranges - and grapes, and melons, and durians? In the end I can only applaud the endless capacity of the poets - and the language - for creativity, for compassion, for generosity, for courage under fire - and all their various subspecies of humour.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See more on the shortlisted and commended poets on the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/index.html">Hippocrates Poetry website.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
winners will be announced at the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/events/2018-hippocrates-poetry-and.html" target="_blank">2018 Hippocrates Awards ceremony</a> at
the Poetry Foundation in Chicago from 4pm on Friday 11th May
when the Hippocrates Awards
Anthology will be launched. There is also a reading at the Poetry
Foundation by Mark Doty
from 7pm on Thursday 10th May, an accompanying
conference
on poetry and medicine that
morning and afternoon at Northwestern
University in Chicago, and a
workshop on poetry, medicine and art at Chicago Museum of Contemporary
Art on Friday evening, 11th May.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With an awards fund of £5500 the Hippocrates Prize for
Poetry and Medicine is one of the highest value poetry awards
in the world for a
single unpublished poem. The 2018 Hippocrates Prize is supported by
medical charity the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a> and the healthy heart charity
the <a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since it was launched in 2010, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted
over 8000 entries from over 60 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and
from Finland to Australasia.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://femioyebode.wordpress.com/about/">___________________________________________________________________________</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Notes for editors</b><br />
For photos of
finalists, biographies and extracts of their poems, call 07494 450805
or email hippocrates.poetry@gmail.com</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/hippocrates-prizes-2010--/2017-hippocrates-prize-for/the-hippocrates-prize.html">Hippocrates Initiative</a>
– winner of the 2011 Times Higher Education Award for Innovation and
Excellence in the Arts – is an interdisciplinary venture that
investigates the relationship between medicine and poetry.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>More on support for the 2018 Hippocrates Awards for Poetry and Medicine</b></span></span><br />
<div class="m_-499684260875019148MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The 2018 Hippocrates Open Awards and Health Professional Awards are supported by
the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>. The FPM is a UK medical
society founded in 1918, which publishes the international journals the
Postgraduate Medical Journal and Health Policy and Technology. </span></span></div>
<div class="m_-499684260875019148MsoPlainText">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
2018 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize is supported by the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>,
a healthy heart charity founded in 1996, which promotes research and
education for the prevention and treatment of disorders of the heart and
circulation. The charity has a particular interest in avoiding
preventable heart disease through educating school students.<a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The 9th Annual Symposium on Poetry and Medicine is supported by:</b></span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bioethics.northwestern.edu/">Center for Bioethics &
Medical Humanities, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://hms.harvard.edu/">Harvard Medical School</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.hippocrates-poetry.org/">Hippocrates Initiative
for Poetry & Medicine</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/">The Poetry Foundation</a></span></span></li>
</ul>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-45191479815411824572017-12-18T03:33:00.006-08:002017-12-18T16:31:01.469-08:00Launch of The Hippocrates Book of the Heart in Sydney<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The Hippocrates Book of the Heart was launched in Sydney on 26th
September 2017 by Andrew Dimitri, Geoffrey Lehmann, Stephen Edgar from Australia and Michael Hulse from the UK. The launch took place at the
Wallace Wurth Faculty of Medicine building at the University of New South
Wales.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">ISBN 978-0-9935911-1-2 UK: £12 Ireland: €15 US: $18 CAN: $24 AUS: $24
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Michael Hulse spoke about the Hippocrates Prize and Initiative for
Poetry and Medicine. This was followed by readings from the Hippocrates Book of
the Heart by Andrew Dimitri, Stephen Edgar and Geoffrey Lehmann. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Andrew Dimitri, Geoffrey Lehmann, Stephen Edgar, Michael Hulse</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">This book, published by the Hippocrates Press on behalf of the
Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine, was made possible by the
support of the healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust.
The CVRT, founded in 1996, educates health professionals, policy makers and the
public about effective ways to prevent and treat serious disorders of the heart
and the circulation.</span></span></div>
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English-speaking world and a dozen medical experts from around the globe to
offer their perspectives on the heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Since ancient times, the heart has been understood as the seat of the
emotions, of the will, even of the soul. Over time, a fuller medical
understanding of the organ has gradually evolved too, with Harvey’s first
complete account of the circulation of the blood and the heart’s role (1628)
and the 50th anniversary this week of Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s first successful
heart transplant (1968) marking key moments in a history that has given us a
much better understanding of our hearts – and how to ensure they stay healthy.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FTjaT7tHPck/Wjfjv-EUAdI/AAAAAAAAFNc/flY31HrgSjIJEVRZyVb7pPAzkoIZe56RgCEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_0272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="943" data-original-width="1600" height="117" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FTjaT7tHPck/Wjfjv-EUAdI/AAAAAAAAFNc/flY31HrgSjIJEVRZyVb7pPAzkoIZe56RgCEwYBhgL/s200/IMG_0272.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"></span><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VBOj7XFWPzs/Wjfjv88ciXI/AAAAAAAAFNY/fxtLkg4DSYsT6EN_zk9BvtpALp-_VDrqQCEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_0273.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1600" height="101" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VBOj7XFWPzs/Wjfjv88ciXI/AAAAAAAAFNY/fxtLkg4DSYsT6EN_zk9BvtpALp-_VDrqQCEwYBhgL/s200/IMG_0273.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">In compiling this book, the editors invited poets around the
English-speaking world, both prominent and less well-known, to contribute poems
about the heart, written from any perspective, whether clinical or fanciful,
medical or metaphorical. Among the poets are Griffin Poetry Prize winners Roo
Borson and David Harsent, Forward Prize winners Sean O’Brien, Hilary Menos and
Nick Mackinnon, former New Zealand Poets Laureate Elizabeth Smither and C. K.
Stead, former National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis, and President of PEN
International Jennifer Clement. They are joined by many other distinguished and
rising poets, including Robert Gray, John Kinsella, Peter Goldsworthy, Stephen
Edgar and Geoffrey Lehmann from Australia; Anna Jackson, Jenny Bornholdt and
Chris Price from New Zealand; Grace Schulman, Rafael Campo, Matthew Thorburn,
Debora Greger and Jeffrey Harrison from the US; Marilyn Bowering and Kenneth
Sherman from Canada; Justin Quinn, Mary O’Donnell and John F. Deane from
Ireland; and Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Mimi Khalvati, Lawrence Sail and
Penelope Shuttle from the UK.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Leading medical professionals whose practice and research has led them
to a keen interest in the health of the heart contribute information and advice
to the book. In clear, crisp mini-essays they illuminate the nature of heart
disease, the key risk factors, the history of cardiac surgery, and the most
important steps every one of us can take in trying to maintain a healthy heart.
Our medical professionals, based in Russia, Finland, The Netherlands, France,
the UK, Australia and Hong Kong, agree in their core message: maintaining a
healthy heart is possible for every one of us, and is crucial to our overall
health and well-being throughout our lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The result is that rare thing, a book that satisfies the Horatian dictum
that writing should both delight and instruct. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org|" target="_blank">To enter for the 2018 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine</a>, go to hippocrates-poetry.org|</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The 2018 judging panel </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">- for the International Open category and the International Health
Professional categories: Mark Doty, USA, Carol Rumens, UK, Dr Peter
Goldsworthy, Australia</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">- for the Hippocrates Young Poets Prize: Alisha Kaplan, Canada.<br />Deadline for Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine:<br />International Open and International Health Professional
categories: at the end of 14th February, 2018 - 12 midnight in the time zone of
the applicant.<br />Deadline for Hippocrates International Young Poets Prize for Poetry and
Medicine:<br />at the end of 1st March, 2018 - 12 midnight in the time zone of the
applicant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">Awards date: Friday 11th May 2018 at The Poetry Foundation,
Chicago, USA</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">The winning poems and commendations in all the 2018 Hippocrates
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial";">With a prize fund of £5500 for winning poems in the Open International
category and NHS category, and £500 for the Young Poets Award, the Hippocrates
Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem.
The prize comprises a 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prize and 20 commendations in each of
the Open and NHS categories and further commendations in the Young Poets Award.
In its first 7 years, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 8000 entries
from over 60 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to
Australasia. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>The Hippocrates Book of the Heart</b> <br />Edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer<br /><br />ISBN 978-0-9935911-1-2 UK: £12 Ireland: €15 US: $18 CAN: $24 AUS: $24 NZ: $30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-press/the-hippocrates-book-of-the.html" target="_blank">Order a printed copy of the book </a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075V6YHCV" target="_blank">Order the eBook</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Art installation by Rochelle Rubinstein and Alisha Kaplan</b></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This book, made
possible by the generous
support of the <a href="http://www.healthpolicyandtechnology.org/">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>, brings
together eighty contemporary
poets of the English-speaking world and a dozen
medical experts from around the
globe to offer their perspectives on the heart.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Since
ancient times, the
heart has been understood as
the seat of the emotions, of the will, even of the
soul. Over time, a fuller
medical understanding of the organ has gradually
evolved too, with Harvey’s
first complete account of the circulation of the
blood and the heart’s role
(1628) and Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s first successful
heart transplant (1968) marking
key moments in a history that has given us a
much better understanding of
our hearts – and how to ensure they stay healthy.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">In
compiling this book,
the editors invited poets
around the English-speaking world, both prominent and
less well-known, to contribute
poems about the heart, written from any
perspective, whether clinical
or fanciful, medical or metaphorical. Among the
poets are Griffin Poetry Prize
winners Roo Borson and David Harsent, Forward
Prize winners Sean O’Brien,
Hilary Menos and Nick Mackinnon, former New Zealand
Poets Laureate Elizabeth
Smither and C. K. Stead, former National Poet of Wales
Gwyneth Lewis, and President of
PEN International Jennifer Clement. They are
joined by many other
distinguished and rising poets, including Robert Gray, John
Kinsella, Peter Goldsworthy,
Stephen Edgar and Geoffrey Lehmann from Australia;
Anna Jackson, Jenny Bornholdt
and Chris Price from New Zealand; Grace Schulman,
Rafael Campo, Matthew Thorburn,
Debora Greger and Jeffrey Harrison from the US;
Marilyn Bowering and Kenneth
Sherman from Canada; Justin Quinn, Mary O’Donnell
and John F. Deane from Ireland;
and Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Mimi Khalvati,
Lawrence Sail and Penelope
Shuttle from the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Leading
medical
professionals whose practice
and research has led them to a keen interest in
the health of the heart
contribute information and advice to the book. In
clear, crisp mini-essays they
illuminate the nature of heart disease, the key
risk factors, the history of
cardiac surgery, and the most important steps
every one of us can take in
trying to maintain a healthy heart. Our medical
professionals, based in Russia,
Finland, The Netherlands, France, the UK,
Australia and Hong Kong, agree
in their core message: maintaining a healthy
heart is possible for every one
of us, and is crucial to our overall health and
well-being throughout our
lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The
result is that rare
thing, a book that satisfies
the Horatian dictum that writing should both
delight and instruct.</span><br />
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Canadian launch of the book was held at Makom in Toronto on Thursday
16th November. The programme included readings by Canadian poets Alisha
Kaplan, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. There was also a
lively discussion panel on "More poetry: just what doctors and the
public need?" In addition to the above poets the panel was joined by
poet and psychotherapist Ronna and poet and psychiatrist Ron Charach,
with a co-chairs: Alisha Kaplan and Donald Singer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-press/toronto-launch-of-the-hippo.html" target="_blank">See more about the Toronto launch of the Heart book</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ronna
Bloom is the author of 5 collections of poetry including The More
(Pedlar Press, 2017). Her poems have been translated into Spanish and
Bengali, recorded by the CNIB, and used in films, by architects, in
education and health care. Her work appears in "Poetry is Public" and in
the Toronto Public Library Poetry Map. She is currently Poet in
Community at the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence in the
Sinai Health System in Toronto. In these roles she offers students,
health care professionals, patients and visitors opportunities to
articulate their experiences through reflective writing and poetry. A
meditator and psychotherapist, she lives in Toronto. <br /><br />Roo
Borson's work has received the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor
General's Award. Her most recent book of poetry is Cardinal in the
Eastern White Cedar (2017), published by McClelland and Stewart/Penguin
Random House. With Kim Maltman, she writes under the pen name Baziju,
whose first book, Box Kite, was published in 2016 by House of Anansi
Press.<br /><br />Ron Charach is a poet, essayist, novelist and practicing
psychiatrist. Born in Winnipeg, he has lived in Toronto since 1980 with
his wife Alice, who is also a psychiatrist and researcher. His medically
related poems are featured in two world anthologies of physician poetry
published by the University of Iowa Press, Blood & Bone and Primary
Care. His most recent books of poetry are Forgetting the Holocaust and
Prosopagnosia, the latter of which was published by Toronto’s Tightrope
Books. His poetry draws from the twin streams of literature and the
healing arts.<br /><br />Alisha Kaplan: The daughter of a printmaker and a
psychiatrist, Alisha is very interested in the convergence of art and
medicine, and the healing possibilities of poetry. She is a Torontonian
poet, an editor for Narrative Magazine, and the winner of the 2017
Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine. She taught creative writing at
New York University, where she received an MFA in Poetry. Her writing
has appeared in Fence, DIAGRAM, Carousel, PRISM, The New Quarterly, and
elsewhere.<br /><br />Kim Maltman is a poet and theoretical particle
physicist who teaches mathematics at York University. A past winner of
the CBC Prize for Poetry, he has published five solo collections of
poetry and three collaborative books, including Introduction to the
Introduction to Wang Wei, written under the pen name Pain Not Bread and
published by Brick Books. <br /><br />Born in Toronto, Kenneth Sherman is
the author of three books of prose and ten books of poetry. His most
recent publications are Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer and the poetry
collection Jogging with the Great Ray Charles.<br /><br />Donald Singer and
Michael Hulse co-founded the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and
Medicine in 2009. Singer is a clinical pharmacologist who has published
over 200 articles, chapters and books on medicines, on cardiovascular
research, prevention and treatment, and public understanding of health.
He is an editor and contributor to The Hippocrates Book of the Heart
(Hippocrates Press, 2017). He co-authors the prescribing safety guide
Pocket Prescriber (Taylor & Francis) now in its 8th edition since
2004. He is President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. He is
also on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Clinical
Pharmacology and Therapeutics. </span></div>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-11395303275097377362017-12-12T03:15:00.000-08:002019-02-11T12:30:37.940-08:00Developing robust common data models to guide safety in medicines in Europe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The European Medicines Agency held a 2 day international workshop
in London [11th -12th December 2017] to define the opportunities and challenges around implementation of a
common health data model in Europe to support regulatory decision making. The
expected outcome of the workshop was agreement of guiding principles for the
development of a Common Data Model (CDM) in Europe, including key criteria for
validation in the context of regulatory decision-making. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
common data model could help harmonise healthcare data across multiple data
sets and provide a mechanism to conduct pan-European studies in a timely manner
to address regulatory questions. At the same time, applying a common model to
European data has multiple challenges. The meeting brought together
regulators with academia, data holders and the pharmaceutical industry.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sessions included talks from experts from North America (FDA, Harvard, Duke,
Georgia Tech ...) and the European region (Erasmus, Utrecht, <a href="https://english.cbg-meb.nl/about-meb" target="_blank">CBG-MEB</a>, EMA ...) discussing lessons learned and current
challenges in very large current clinical data resources, regulatory
verification and related issues. Common data model case studies considered
included <a href="https://www.sentinelinitiative.org/" target="_blank">Sentinel</a> – the Harvard-based FDA system for accessing patient data
from 16 health data partners across the USA and <a href="https://www.cnodes.ca/" target="_blank">CNODES</a> (the Canadian Network
for Operational Drug Effect Studies) which can access data on 100 million patients
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) <a href="https://www.fda.gov/Safety/FDAsSentinelInitiative/ucm2007250.htm" target="_blank">Sentinel Initiative</a> is a long term approach which uses a common health data model
to improve the FDA’s ability to identify and explore safety issues for medical
products. Sentinel actively surveys pre-existing electronic healthcare data
from multiple sources.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Consistent themes included ensuring the relevance of evolving common data
models to health policy, keeping timelines as short as practical,
interoperability, consent and related ethical issues (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">data custodians, p</span>atient data protection and privacy)</span>, and careful internal and
external validation of clinical definitions, data, software and analytical
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">From the perspective of health professionals, policy makers, regulators
and the public, key questions included whether clinical outcomes from common
data models are generalisable or only relevant to specific sub-populations
based on geography, genetics, demographics and/or complex co-morbidity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the era of precision medicine there is the
clear need is to avoid “right” answers from the wrong clinical populations and
“wrong” answers from the right populations.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Further key points considered included: what is the cost of developing
and maintaining validated CDMs; who should pay; whether updating existing
databases is a sufficient approach or rather new more robust databases are
needed.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/news_and_events/events/2017/10/event_detail_001524.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058004d5c3" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">See more about the workshop</span></a></div>
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-69660583746478749452017-12-11T16:27:00.000-08:002017-12-11T16:38:39.231-08:00London launch of the Hippocrates Book of the Heart: writing to delight and instruct<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://healthyheartcharity.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/slide1.jpg?w=244&h=326" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Slide1" border="0" class=" wp-image-832 aligncenter" data-attachment-id="832" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Slide1" data-large-file="https://healthyheartcharity.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/slide1.jpg?w=720" data-medium-file="https://healthyheartcharity.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/slide1.jpg?w=225" data-orig-file="https://healthyheartcharity.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/slide1.jpg" data-orig-size="720,960" data-permalink="https://healthyheartcharity.com/2017/09/25/writing-to-delight-and-instruct-the-hippocrates-book-of-the-heart/slide1-3/" height="200" src="https://healthyheartcharity.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/slide1.jpg?w=244&h=326" width="149" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hippocrates Book of the Heart was launched in London on Wednesday 6th December 2017. <br /><br /><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-press/london-launch-of-the-hippoc.html">See the programme.</a></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This book, published by the Hippocrates Press on behalf of the <a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/">Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine</a>, was made possible by the support of the healthy heart charity the Cardiovascular Research Trust. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The CVRT, founded in 1996, educates health professionals, policy
makers and the public about effective ways to prevent and treat serious
disorders of the heart and the circulation.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book brings together eighty contemporary poets of the
English-speaking world and a dozen medical experts from around the globe
to offer their perspectives on the heart.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many of the contributors were in London for the launch of the book.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />ISBN 978-0-9935911-1-2 UK: £12 Ireland: €15 US: $18 CAN: $24 AUS: $24 NZ: $30</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nW8JEfqGUpQ/Wi8fhNQkUOI/AAAAAAAAFK4/SDx59FNgEjg54lnJSG8tuK96xBhXOGeKwCEwYBhgL/s1600/DSC_0175.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="212" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nW8JEfqGUpQ/Wi8fhNQkUOI/AAAAAAAAFK4/SDx59FNgEjg54lnJSG8tuK96xBhXOGeKwCEwYBhgL/s320/DSC_0175.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since ancient times, the heart has been understood as the seat of the
emotions, of the will, even of the soul. Over time, a fuller medical
understanding of the organ has gradually evolved too, with Harvey’s
first complete account of the circulation of the blood and the heart’s
role (1628) and the 50th anniversary this week of Dr. Christiaan
Barnard’s first successful heart transplant (1968) marking key moments
in a history that has given us a much better understanding of our hearts
– and how to ensure they stay healthy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In compiling this book, the editors invited poets around the
English-speaking world, both prominent and less well-known, to
contribute poems about the heart, written from any perspective, whether
clinical or fanciful, medical or metaphorical. Among the poets are
Griffin Poetry Prize winners Roo Borson and David Harsent, Forward Prize
winners Sean O’Brien, Hilary Menos and Nick Mackinnon, former New
Zealand Poets Laureate Elizabeth Smither and C. K. Stead, former
National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis, and President of PEN International
Jennifer Clement. They are joined by many other distinguished and
rising poets, including Robert Gray, John Kinsella, Peter Goldsworthy,
Stephen Edgar and Geoffrey Lehmann from Australia; Anna Jackson, Jenny
Bornholdt and Chris Price from New Zealand; Grace Schulman, Rafael
Campo, Matthew Thorburn, Debora Greger and Jeffrey Harrison from the US;
Marilyn Bowering and Kenneth Sherman from Canada; Justin Quinn, Mary
O’Donnell and John F. Deane from Ireland; and Jane Draycott, Philip
Gross, Mimi Khalvati, Lawrence Sail and Penelope Shuttle from the UK.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leading medical professionals whose practice and research has led
them to a keen interest in the health of the heart contribute
information and advice to the book. In clear, crisp mini-essays they
illuminate the nature of heart disease, the key risk factors, the
history of cardiac surgery, and the most important steps every one of us
can take in trying to maintain a healthy heart. Our medical
professionals, based in Russia, Finland, The Netherlands, France, the
UK, Australia and Hong Kong, agree in their core message: maintaining a
healthy heart is possible for every one of us, and is crucial to our
overall health and well-being throughout our lives.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The result is that rare thing, a book that satisfies the Horatian dictum that writing should both delight and instruct.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Makom, Toronto, 16.11.17: Donald Singer, Ron Charach, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson, Kim Maltman, Ronna Bloom and Alisha Kaplan</b></span></span></td></tr>
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Thursday 16th November. The programme included readings by Canadian
poets Alisha Kaplan, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. There
was also a lively discussion panel on “More poetry: just what doctors
and the public need?” In addition to the above poets the panel was
joined by poet and psychotherapist Ronna Bloom and poet and psychiatrist
Ron Charach and co-chairs Alisha Kaplan and Donald Singer.</span></span><br />
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-53374092039916240392017-12-09T01:28:00.001-08:002017-12-09T01:33:19.824-08:00Developing health policy to protect the heart and circulation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Diseases of the heart and circulation are the commonest preventable
cause of disability and death in the UK and elsewhere in the developed
world. Heart and circulatory disorders are also rapidly overtaking
communicable diseases as serious health problems in less developed
countries. Policy makers need to take an increasing interest in
encouraging lifestyle approaches aimed at reducing the incidence and
severity of these serious disorders of the heart and circulation.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/health-policy-for-the-heart-and-circulation/">This one day symposium</a>, with speakers from Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK was organised by the healthy heart charity the <a href="https://healthyheartcharity.com/healthy-heart-symposia/">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a> in partnership with the <a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/">Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine</a>.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Slovick, Leslie Morgan OBE DL, Donald Singer, Wade Dimitri, Ken Redekop, Alison Halliday, Robin Poston</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">FPM President and CRT chair Donald Singer said: “Despite recent
efforts, obesity and diabetes are increasing epidemics in the UK and
internationally. Political leaders have a huge opportunity to improve
both national health and wealth by a sustained increase in the effective
public health measures needed to prevent and address the major risk
factors for premature heart, stroke and other vascular disease.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaker Professor Kornelia Kotseva from Imperial College in London
said: “Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of mortality
accounting for 17.5 million deaths every year globally and 4.3 million
deaths every year in Europe. The proportion of all deaths attributable
to CVD is greater among women (49%) than in men (40%), with large
geographic inequalities between countries.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Speaker Professor Alison Halliday from the University of Oxford and
President of the European Society of Vascular Surgery added: “Stroke
causes many thousands of deaths in the UK every year and is the
country’s leading cause of disability. Billions of pounds are spent on
treating the causes and the results of stroke – hypertension, heart
disease, diabetes, smoking, but the greatest risk factor is age, and,
despite attention to known modifiable risk factors, the numbers of new
and recurrent strokes have not fallen significantly in recent years.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Professor Bernard Cheung from the University of Hong Kong and Editor
of the FPM’s journal the Postgraduate Medical Journal said: “The biggest
news in the world of hypertension is the publication of the latest
American guidelines (ACC/AHA) on the prevention, detection, evaluation
and management of high blood pressure. The most controversial change is
in the definition of hypertension, which now includes a systolic blood
pressure of 130-139 mmHg or a diastolic blood pressure of 80-89 mmHg.
This change will, at a stroke, make a sizeable proportion of the general
population hypertensive.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Professor Ken Redekop from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and
Editor-in-Chief of the FPM’s journal Health Policy and Technology noted
that “Precision medicine (PM) refers to the separation of patients into
more homogeneous subgroups, with the rationale being that patients who
will benefit from a treatment should receive the treatment while
patients who will not benefit should not.” He added: “When all factors
(including cost-effectiveness) are considered, a precision medicine
strategy may or may not be the best one in the effort to improve
cardiovascular health, and health outcomes in general.”</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Heart surgeon Wade Dimitri commented that: “heart surgery in the UK
has led the development and refinement of many techniques and health
technologies and has resulted in significant reduction in cardiovascular
mortality and morbidity. Such progress and improvements have not
followed in the developing world where mortality and morbidity remain
high, approaching 60% in certain countries. Urgent efforts are needed to
reverse this trend and improve outcomes of adults and children with
heart disease undergoing heart surgery in less developed countries.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Professor Ramon Estruch, Barcelona said: "The Mediterranean diet has strong research evidence as an effective healthy lifestyle approach to protect the heart and brain. Similar healthy diet cultures are found in other regions on the 40th parallel in both the north and southern hemispheres around the world."</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Papers from the symposium will be published in the journals of the
Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (Postgraduate Medical Journal and
Health Policy and Technology.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Note for Editors</b><br />
For more on the themes of the event,<br />
email: fpm.chandos@gmail.com or call 07494 450 805.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://thefpmuk.wordpress.com/speaker-abstracts-7th-december-2017-health-policy-symposium/">Speaker abstracts and biographies</a></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://thefpmuk.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/r-30-11-17-health-policy-for-the-heart-and-circulation.pdf" title="r 30.11.17 Health policy for the heart and circulation">Meeting programme: Health policy for the heart and circulation</a></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As one of many consequences of Brexit, following a very close vote by member states on Monday 20th November, Amsterdam
has been confirmed as the new home for the European Medicines Agency. On
current plans, the EMA will be operating in Amsterdam from April 2019,
following a likely shadow hosting of the EMA there for some months before the
formal date for completing the move of the agency.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The EMA's Patients and Consumers Working Party annual meeting</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meantime the EMA's Patients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP) is holding its annual meeting with all EMA eligible patient/consumer consumer organisations to consider relocation preparedness, patient and consumer involvement in EMA activities, highlights from major EMA committees and updates on pharmacovigilance, information on medicines and future work programmes in 2018 and 2019 for the PCWP and the EMA's Healthcare Professionals Working Party.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Effective medicines have both powerful therapeutic actions as well as the potential for serious
unwanted adverse effects. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
EMA was founded in 1995 with initial funding from the European Union
and the pharmaceutical industry, and further support from EU member
states. </span></span>The European Medicines Agency is concerned
with regulation, supply chain and pharmacovigilance for medicines and
other advanced therapies for 28 countries across the European Union - from the
Baltic countries to Ireland and from Scandinavia to the Balkans and the
Mediterranean. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All these roles concern balancing benefits and risks when it comes to
patient safety with regard to medicines. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The EMA has established mechanisms for involving patients in regulatory
assessment: patients’ value perception and value systems. The EMA also has an increasing remit to engage with stakeholder
organisations and to improve transparency in its activities for the ~510 million
citizens of the European Union.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Furthermore the EMA has a major role in educating patients, carers and health care
professionals about medicines. There have for example been recent workshops on</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">combating antibiotic resistance: a partnership
with the European Centre for Disease Control</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">biosimilars </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">personalised medicine initiatives</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">applying big data to improved regulation of medicines in
Europe which raises important questions about clinical utility, quality, accessibility and systems for data mining</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There remain many decisions and actions for the coming months needed to ensure continuity of the EMA's business. These involve the smooth relocation of the EMA to Amsterdam and either developing systems to retain UK expertise for the EMA or replacing that expertise from other EU member states.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the EMA, priorities include:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">minimising the impact on staff of the move to maximise staff retention </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">maintaining capacity to continue the work of the EMA </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the resulting need to prioritise EMA core and planned further activities</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">continuing productive engagement with stakeholder groups: patients, carers,
healthcare professionals ...</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">maintaining the capacity of the EMA to engage with the public </span></span></li>
</ul>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the UK, there are pressing questions regarding the future regulation of medicines in the UK post-Brexit, the impact of loss of international influence of UK regulators and other experts on medicines and the impact of loss of biotech and pharmaceutical companies from London to Amsterdam.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The EMA has been based in London for over 20 years. Many staff have
strong family and other personal ties in the UK - for example partners' work, children at school,
dependent relatives ...</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adapting to a new country is no simple matter. The working language
of the EMA is currently English however full integration within Amsterdam will
need competency in the native language in the Netherlands. There will also be practical challenges arising <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">from the simultaneous impact of the arrival of up to 800 families on the Amsterdam housing market and schools system.</span></span></span><br />
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Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-67801585432357627512017-11-21T15:30:00.004-08:002017-11-22T07:25:28.719-08:00Global perspectives on the heart: Hippocrates Book of the Heart launched in Toronto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hippocrates Book of the Heart edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer<br />ISBN 978-0-9935911-1-2 UK: £12 Ireland: €15 US: $18 CAN: $24 AUS: $24 NZ: $30</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-press/the-hippocrates-book-of-the.html" target="_blank">Order a printed copy of the book </a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075V6YHCV" target="_blank">Order the eBook</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This book, made
possible by the generous
support of the <a href="http://www.healthpolicyandtechnology.org/">Cardiovascular Research Trust</a>, brings
together eighty contemporary
poets of the English-speaking world and a dozen
medical experts from around the
globe to offer their perspectives on the heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since
ancient times, the
heart has been understood as
the seat of the emotions, of the will, even of the
soul. Over time, a fuller
medical understanding of the organ has gradually
evolved too, with Harvey’s
first complete account of the circulation of the
blood and the heart’s role
(1628) and Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s first successful
heart transplant (1968) marking
key moments in a history that has given us a
much better understanding of
our hearts – and how to ensure they stay healthy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
compiling this book,
the editors invited poets
around the English-speaking world, both prominent and
less well-known, to contribute
poems about the heart, written from any
perspective, whether clinical
or fanciful, medical or metaphorical. Among the
poets are Griffin Poetry Prize
winners Roo Borson and David Harsent, Forward
Prize winners Sean O’Brien,
Hilary Menos and Nick Mackinnon, former New Zealand
Poets Laureate Elizabeth
Smither and C. K. Stead, former National Poet of Wales
Gwyneth Lewis, and President of
PEN International Jennifer Clement. They are
joined by many other
distinguished and rising poets, including Robert Gray, John
Kinsella, Peter Goldsworthy,
Stephen Edgar and Geoffrey Lehmann from Australia;
Anna Jackson, Jenny Bornholdt
and Chris Price from New Zealand; Grace Schulman,
Rafael Campo, Matthew Thorburn,
Debora Greger and Jeffrey Harrison from the US;
Marilyn Bowering and Kenneth
Sherman from Canada; Justin Quinn, Mary O’Donnell
and John F. Deane from Ireland;
and Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Mimi Khalvati,
Lawrence Sail and Penelope
Shuttle from the UK.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leading
medical
professionals whose practice
and research has led them to a keen interest in
the health of the heart
contribute information and advice to the book. In
clear, crisp mini-essays they
illuminate the nature of heart disease, the key
risk factors, the history of
cardiac surgery, and the most important steps
every one of us can take in
trying to maintain a healthy heart. Our medical
professionals, based in Russia,
Finland, The Netherlands, France, the UK,
Australia and Hong Kong, agree
in their core message: maintaining a healthy
heart is possible for every one
of us, and is crucial to our overall health and
well-being throughout our
lives.</span></span></div>
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result is that rare
thing, a book that satisfies
the Horatian dictum that writing should both
delight and instruct.</span></span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Makom, Toronto, 16.11.17: </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Donald Singer, Ron Charach, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson, </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Kim Maltman, Ronna Bloom and Alisha Kaplan</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Canadian launch of the book was held at Makom in Toronto on Thursday 16th November. The programme included readings by Canadian poets Alisha Kaplan, Kenneth Sherman, Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. There was also a lively discussion panel on "More poetry: just what doctors and the public need?" In addition to the above poets the panel was joined by poet and psychotherapist Ronna and poet and psychiatrist Ron Charach, with a co-chairs: Alisha Kaplan and Donald Singer. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://hippocrates-poetry.org/the-hippocrates-press/toronto-launch-of-the-hippo.html" target="_blank">See more about the Toronto launch of the Heart book</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />Ronna Bloom is the author of 5 collections of poetry including The More (Pedlar Press, 2017). Her poems have been translated into Spanish and Bengali, recorded by the CNIB, and used in films, by architects, in education and health care. Her work appears in "Poetry is Public" and in the Toronto Public Library Poetry Map. She is currently Poet in Community at the University of Toronto and Poet in Residence in the Sinai Health System in Toronto. In these roles she offers students, health care professionals, patients and visitors opportunities to articulate their experiences through reflective writing and poetry. A meditator and psychotherapist, she lives in Toronto. <br /><br />Roo Borson's work has received the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Award. Her most recent book of poetry is Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar (2017), published by McClelland and Stewart/Penguin Random House. With Kim Maltman, she writes under the pen name Baziju, whose first book, Box Kite, was published in 2016 by House of Anansi Press.<br /><br />Ron Charach is a poet, essayist, novelist and practicing psychiatrist. Born in Winnipeg, he has lived in Toronto since 1980 with his wife Alice, who is also a psychiatrist and researcher. His medically related poems are featured in two world anthologies of physician poetry published by the University of Iowa Press, Blood & Bone and Primary Care. His most recent books of poetry are Forgetting the Holocaust and Prosopagnosia, the latter of which was published by Toronto’s Tightrope Books. His poetry draws from the twin streams of literature and the healing arts.<br /><br />Alisha Kaplan: The daughter of a printmaker and a psychiatrist, Alisha is very interested in the convergence of art and medicine, and the healing possibilities of poetry. She is a Torontonian poet, an editor for Narrative Magazine, and the winner of the 2017 Hippocrates Prize in Poetry and Medicine. She taught creative writing at New York University, where she received an MFA in Poetry. Her writing has appeared in Fence, DIAGRAM, Carousel, PRISM, The New Quarterly, and elsewhere.<br /><br />Kim Maltman is a poet and theoretical particle physicist who teaches mathematics at York University. A past winner of the CBC Prize for Poetry, he has published five solo collections of poetry and three collaborative books, including Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, written under the pen name Pain Not Bread and published by Brick Books. <br /><br />Born in Toronto, Kenneth Sherman is the author of three books of prose and ten books of poetry. His most recent publications are Wait Time: A Memoir of Cancer and the poetry collection Jogging with the Great Ray Charles.<br /><br />Donald Singer and Michael Hulse co-founded the Hippocrates Initiative for Poetry and Medicine in 2009. Singer is a clinical pharmacologist who has published over 200 articles, chapters and books on medicines, on cardiovascular research, prevention and treatment, and public understanding of health. He is an editor and contributor to The Hippocrates Book of the Heart (Hippocrates Press, 2017). He co-authors the prescribing safety guide Pocket Prescriber (Taylor & Francis) now in its 8th edition since 2004. He is President of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. He is also on the Executive Committee of the European Association of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. </span></span></div>
Donaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17789192027860101580noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580274869149709169.post-45135261896305792992017-09-29T23:37:00.001-07:002017-11-21T15:15:53.694-08:00Global threat of antibiotic resistance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The European Medicines agency, in partnership with the ECDC (<a href="https://ecdc.europa.eu/en">European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control</a>), is holding a <a href="http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/news_and_events/events/2017/09/event_detail_001506.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058004d5c3">workshop on global challenges from antimicrobial resistance</a> (AMR). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Loss of effectivenss of powerful classes of antimicrobial treatment is a serious issue both for <a href="http://donaldsinger.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/antimicrobial-resistance-global-public.html" target="_blank">less developed countries</a> and for very developed healthcare systems. These are interdependent. Cultural and medical tourism leads to rapid transmission of resistant micro-organisms across continents.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z17EKr1Oe-I/Wc87eBd7W1I/AAAAAAAAFDQ/liwH60KnjfYiaQ2pcCMN7hMQdDXAHGIzACLcBGAs/s1600/WHO%2BAMR.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z17EKr1Oe-I/Wc87eBd7W1I/AAAAAAAAFDQ/liwH60KnjfYiaQ2pcCMN7hMQdDXAHGIzACLcBGAs/s1600/WHO%2BAMR.png" /></a><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are 3 major current approaches to tackling AMR: </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1.
reducing selection pressure on microbes to reduce the chance of their
developing AMR. This needs strategies to reduce overuse of antimicrobial
medicines. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. reducing human/human and animal/human transmission microbes. This needs effective infection control measures</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.
increasing the availability of new antibiotics through more R & D
combined with limiting their use within evidence-based guidelines - ie
effective antibiotic stewardship.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There
needs to be an integrated approach combining a pipeline of effective
new antimicrobial and careful stewardship of existing antimicrobials
through their effective use. However from a recent international survey,
20% of the public who took part were unaware that overuse of
antibiotics leads to antimicrobial resistance to treatment. Furthermore
44% were unaware that antibiotics are ineffective against colds and
'flu'. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
WHO has estimated that, without major global action, by 2050 there may
be ~400,000 preventable deaths annualy in the European region alone, as a
result of lack of effective antiobiotics for serious infections (Figure).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Martial
Plantady from the European Commission opened the day by discussing the
EU Action plan launched in 2011 and running until 2016 against the
threats from antimicrobial resistance. He noted that many solutions were
described within the plan however there remain major challenges to
effective implementation of the Plan, including:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- widespread and worldwide antibiotic use for growth promotion in livestock</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- resulting need to push strategy to ban antibiotic use in livestock beyond the EU</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- availability of animal and human data across member states</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- effective surveillance on appropriate and prudent use of antimicrobials in humans</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some solutions include </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- effective dissemination of guidelines on prudent use of antibiotics in animals and humans</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Antibiotic Awareness Days</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-
more effective coordination of R & D across industry and academic
sectors on new antimicrobials, alternatives, vaccines and rapid
diagnostic tests</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- engagement with key health professional and patient stakeholder organisations</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
new EU Action Plan on antibiotic resistance was published in June 2017,
with 3 pillars supported by strengthened measures for infection
prevention and control:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- making the EU Region a best practice region on AMR</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- improving research and innovation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- shaping the global agenda on AMR</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the 68th World Health Assembly in May 2015, the World Health
Assembly endorsed a <a href="http://www.who.int/antimicrobial-resistance/global-action-plan/en/">global action plan</a>
to tackle antimicrobial
resistance, including antibiotic resistance, the most urgent drug
resistance trend. Carmen Pessoa da Silva from the WHO underlined the key
point that if AMR remains unresolved, the global threat would be
enormous both for human health as well as for the world economy. She
summarised 5 key elements of WHO strategy against AMR.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. improved awareness and understanding (annual WHO awareness week)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2.
strengthen knowledge through surveillance and research 9WHO Global AMR
Surveillance System - GLASS - further report due in Jan 2018 - 47
countries are fully enrolled - 25% of member states)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. reduce incidence of infection</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. optimise use of anti-microbial medicines</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. ensure sustainable investment for R & D</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pgeu.eu/en/">Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union</a> </span></span>represents
the ~400,000 community pharmacists who dispense medicines for the ~500
million population of the European Union. Around 46 million people visit
a community pharmacist every day in Europe.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">James
Wilkinson discussed efforts of the PGEU to educate community
pharmacists and the public in rational use of antimicrobial medicines.</span></span></div>
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