To Repel is to Protect
Four years ago working in Timor Leste, I experienced the devastating effects of dengue fever and malaria on families in a resource-poor environment. Waving mosquitos...
Greater transparency for global health
As the G20 summit draws to an end, we hope that global leaders will push ahead with confronting the problems that mean that people across...
Getting Youth Involved in Health Policy
At One Young World this year, we are hosting a session on the role young people can play in helping to set the health policy...
How we fight infection
Our bodies are designed to keep out infection, using an armoury that includes a tough outer layer of skin, tiny hair-like structures in the respiratory tract that...
The whole story of hormones
Hormones, which are produced in endocrine glands throughout the body, regulate our metabolism, our sex lives and even our moods. If hormone balance is disturbed for any...
Back to health
Whether it’s a twinge in the small of your back or an eye-watering ache in your lumbar spine, back pain is a modern epidemic. Most people...
Back to work – fresh start
As millions of us return to work after the long summer break, health and wellbeing experts offer their tips how to ensure that you start as...
Schizophrenia vs Multiple Personality Disorder
Probably the two most frequently confused psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder, are worlds apart in their core features.
Health for all in developing countries
The Hope of Universal Health Coverage for People in Developing Countries. What would you do if you were detained in a hospital for not paying...
Better surgery for landmine victims
Landmines are a deadly legacy of many past and present conflicts and still kill around 15-20,000 people around the world every year and maim many more....
