Barnacles and sharks
We are now rowing the first few miles of our 3000 mile voyage across the Indian ocean from the west coast of Australia to Mauritius,...
Should you judge sleep by quantity or quality?
When it comes to getting a good night’s sleep, there are a lot of things we still don’t know. Yes, duration of sleep is important,...
Our future as robots
Rebecca Wallersteiner meets 100 Robots at the Science Museum’s major new exhibition which explores humanities 500 year quest to recreate ourselves in mechanized form. How...
Cerebral anatomy in 90 seconds
Learn about the intricacies of your brain in just over a minute with One Minute Medical School.
Get your 10-a-day
Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables each day is known to reduce the chance of heart attack, stroke, cancer and early death. But ten...
Overseeing cosmetic surgery
Cosmetic surgery is booming, but the regulation surrounding who can perform cosmetic procedures with what level of expertise and training, is totally inadequate. The fact remains...
Vaccine safety – don’t shut down the debate
I am not an apologist for Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who proposed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism via the guts nearly 20...
Reassuring AMD patients
Around one in every 2,000 people has Age-related Macular Degeneration at 60. However, by the age of 90 it affects one person in five. We...
Starvation in hospitals
Nurse Helen Cowan talks about starvation, dehydration and death in hospitals. “Kill by mouth” read a recent headline in the Sun newspaper. Readers were informed that...
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...
