A Novel Cure
Antibiotics are over used, many drugs are deemed not to be cost effective or are just too expensive, and staff shortages or limited beds mean...
Brain tumours come under the spotlight of parliament
On Monday 18th April 2016 the parlous lack of funding for research into brain tumours was the subject of a formal parliamentary debate in the House...
Britain’s Battles with AIDS – scientists can be rock stars too
Last month Hillary Clinton took people back more than 30 years when she mis-remembered the policy and personal failures to tackle the then emerging AIDS...
Beautifully handed
Hands are often tell-tale signs of chronological age when other parts of the body, including the face, are more youthful in appearance. The dermal layer...
Self-harm
Self-harm is when someone deliberately hurts or injures him or herself. This can take a number of forms including: cutting, taking overdoses of tablets or...
Your risk of COPD
As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, we look at COPD. COPD, which affects around 1.4 million people...
Your risk of getting Dementia
As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, this week we look at your risk of developing dementia. The number...
Your risk of getting Arthritis
As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, we look at the risk of developing arthritis. Disorders of the musculoskeletal...
Your risk of getting Cancer
As part of our regular series on the risks of getting common chronic diseases, we look at the risk of getting cancer. Cancer is such...
Lies, damned lies and surgical league tables
My heart sank when Health minister Jeremy Hunt announced that league tables for surgeons would be published back in 2014. As a consultant surgeon at...
