If I don’t help mentally ill patients, who will?
Clinical Psychologist Emmerson Gono from MSF describes the challenges of working with mentally ill patients in a Zimbabwean prison. *Stephen is a 30 year old...
Dopamine and Reward
Everybody knows that elevated dopamine is the reason we experience pleasure, right?
Your Health: Familial Hypercholesterolemia with Stanford Cardiologist Joshua Knowles, MD, PhD
Stanford cardiologist Joshua Knowles, MD, explains familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetically inherited disease that causes the body's inability to clear high levels of cholesterol from the...
Multiple sclerosis treatment ‘resets’ immune system
A type of treatment for multiple sclerosis that ‘resets’ the immune system may stop progression of the disease in nearly half of patients. In a...
Ants may defeat MRSA
A new antibiotic, produced by bacteria found on a species of African ant, is very potent against antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ like MRSA according to scientists. Researchers...
Online pharmacies fuelling antibiotic resistance
The internet has made it quick and easy for people to fill their prescriptions from a doctor, or buy over the counter medication with a...
Secrets of a Food Doctor
Fasting has become more mainstream in the last three years thanks to books like The Fast Diet. New research suggests that fasting for 18 hours...
Protecting yourself from air pollution
If you live and work in a city, the chances are that you are exposed to high levels of air pollution at least some, if...
Longer immunotherapy for hay fever
Immunotherapy, which was first trialled on hay fever patients in London in 1911, has an excellent record in helping reduce allergy symptoms. But how long...
A vision for the future
We know that today 2.5 billion people around the world have poor vision with no access to a means of correcting it and it’s been...
