All you need to know about crying
All animals well up with tears to clean or remove irritants from their eyes, but we are the only species who cry because of emotional...
50 plus and HIV positive
One in three people living with HIV in the UK are over the age of 50. Older people are the fastest growing group of people...
Shifting attitudes about HIV testing
Despite incredible medical advances in our treatment of HIV since the 1980s, we know that myths, fear and stigma continue to perpetuate the epidemic in...
Mood and weight loss
Studies have shown that dieting does have an effect on psychological wellbeing. Famous early studies in the 20th century on men who were deprived of...
Advances in fertility
Assisted fertility technology is evolving rapidly - the world’s first three-parent baby was born this month and doctors gave the go-ahead for a new genetic screening method...
Yo-yoing bad for skin and bones
Yo-yo dieting has one very obvious effect on skin – constantly losing and regaining weight can leave permanent stretch marks and sagging and drooping skin....
Pancreatic cancer: Improving outcomes
Pancreatic cancer has no early warning signs and the majority of people with this disease present with acute symptoms such as jaundice and weight loss....
Medic at the helm
I’ve always been a keen sailor and I regret the fact that I’ve never had time to sail around the world. After I qualified as...
New view of cancer
A diagnosis of cancer is really scary. It can seem as if there are only two options, neither very appealing. Conventional treatment which promises a...
HIV test performed on USB stick
Ten years ago, I was based in South Africa and involved in scaling up treatment for people with HIV. That country has one of the...
