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President’s letter August 2022 Some of you reading this may be unaware of the activities of the Kelvin Probus Club, in which case here is a brief outline of what we are about. If you live West of the River

Sir Kenneth Calman was Scotland’s first professor of oncology and is the only person to have ever been appointed Chief Medical Officer of both Scotland and England. He subsequently became Vice Chancellor of Durham University and was a recent Chancellor

Tick Diseases in Scotland   Alex, a second year PhD student, at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) asked the question ‘Is tick-borne disease a growing threat?’  A question she endeavoured to answer in her well detailed

Abstract  The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow was founded in 1599 by surgeon Peter Lowe, physician Robert Hamilton and apothecary William Spang. They set out to improve the standards of medicine and surgery in the West of

Greetings and welcome to the 32nd year of the Kelvin Probus Club!  Not so many years ago members of the public were introduced to the phrase ‘lifelong learning’, to remind those getting on in years that being pensioned off didn’t

Professor Andrew Roe : Aversion therapy: a new approach to treating infections that are resistant to antibiotics Professor Andrew Roe threw members in at the deep end.  On the basis of current trends, increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will kill 10