Drug treatments for brittle bones
Today three million woman in the UK are diagnosed with so-called brittle bone disease osteoporosis and 75,000 hip fractures are treated every year – eight...
Maya Fiennes’ Monday Plan
Monday Theme: Letting go of fear and doubt We can be very scared of change and the first chakra is all about change, about losing...
David Nott Foundation Launch
The Library of the Royal College of Surgeons was packed to the rafters on Wednesday night for the launch of the charity founded by war surgeon...
Gorilla baby born at Bristol Zoo in ‘rare’ C-section
Last week David Cahill, Professor in Reproductive Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Bristol's School of Clinical Sciences and gynaecologist in St Michael's...
Medical aspects of aviation safety
Many of us travel by air. In 2013 alone, more than 3.1 billion passengers were carried, world-wide, in scheduled, mainly jet turbine aircraft. Of these...
From Insulin to Ginseng: Treating China’s diabetes time-bomb
Walk down Shanghai's bustling Nanjing Road, the Chinese metropolis's Oxford Street, and something is clear: the country's near 1.4 billion people are older, wealthier and...
The Junior doctors strike – It’s a woman’s thing!
The days when Sir Lancelot Spratt and his ilk of paternal Greats in NHS hospitals flirted with nurses and shouted at Junior Housemen are long gone....
A Game of Genetics
The other day I managed to fall off my bike. It was quite a spectacular fall where I flew straight over the handlebars and landed...
Regulating In Vitro Fertilisation – A personal perspective
Baroness Mary Warnock has contributed to public thinking and policy in many ways, most notably the moral implications of the reproductive technology, In Vitro Fertilization...
A healing monk bringing healthcare to earthquake zones in Nepal
Wangchuk Rapten, 24, is a paramedic and outreach health worker in the Highlands of Nepal as well as being a Buddhist monk who follows the...
