Bharti Kher – This Breathing House
Rebecca Wallersteiner visits a new art exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum, London which celebrates 160 years since the birth of the father of psychoanalysis...
Camels and codeine – wilderness medicine
I have always had a passion for the wilderness and high places. My first expedition was after leaving school when I joined a six-week trip...
How we’ll fight the next deadly virus | Pardis Sabeti
When Ebola broke out in March 2014, Pardis Sabeti and her team got to work sequencing the virus's genome, learning how it mutated and spread....
Licensing traditional Chinese medicines
For a long time, traditional herbal medicines were available throughout Europe without any proper quality control and regulation. Concerns about patient safety lead to the publication of...
Data for safer cosmetic surgery
In theory, the PIP scandal was just about one factory in France producing substandard breast implants. In practice, it proved to be a watershed moment...
Why we need a global Bill of Rights
People with mental health problems are not ‘the other’. They can be you or I, our children, friends, colleagues. Every family is affected directly or...
What we can do to die well | Timothy Ihrig
The healthcare industry in America is so focused on pathology, surgery and pharmacology -- on what doctors "do" to patients -- that it often overlooks...
Fighting AIDS Saving Lives | Community ART groups
Community ART groups is a patient-led initiative that gives support to people living with AIDS. By helping with the distribution of drugs to those less...
Light on dementia
Alzheimer’s disease is by far the commonest form of dementia affecting around 5 per cent of all people over the age of 75. There is still...
Battle Of The Bulges! (1941)
Various shots of 1940s glamour girls in swimsuits and high heels using exercise machines in a gym. The machines are "the latest mechanised units" of...
