Christmas is potentially a very dangerous for your pets. Copious amounts of chocolate are around at this time of year. It starts on December 1st with chocolate filled advent calendars, followed by hanging chocolate decorations on the tree and finishes with huge tubs of chocolate that are traditionally passed around at Christmas. Whilst over-indulging in […]
New research, from scientists at Imperial College London, unravels how so-called bacterial persister cells manipulate our immune cells, potentially opening new avenues to finding ways of clearing these bacterial cells from the body, and stopping recurrence of the bacterial infection. The latest findings, published in the journal Science, may help explain why some people suffer […]
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Christmas is rapidly approaching and an abundance of compelling newly published books to choose from. From ‘A Listening Doctor’ by Jeremy Bendy, a moving memoir by a renowned physician and pioneer of modern diabetes treatment examining the caprices of human nature to Virago’s beautiful Centenary edition of Vera Brittain’s ‘Testament of Youth’, still the best […]
Research is slow. Research is expensive. And there’s no guarantee that it will produce anything useful. But it’s the only long-term potential solution to certain problems. Autistica’s Discover is a virtual online network is designed for the true experts in autism: those on the autistic spectrum themselves and their families and carers. It is the first […]
A worrying number of adults would consider buying a laser pen as a Christmas present for a child, a new survey from RoSPA has revealed. One in four (24 per cent) of more than 2,000 people said they would consider the item as a present this Christmas – however laser pens, also known as laser […]
A new global fund has been set up to help finally eliminate one of the most devastating causes of blindness. The blinding eye disease trachoma is depicted in the hieroglyphs on ancient Nubian tombs yet it is now on the verge of being eliminated as a public health problem across the world. Massive progress has […]
Myriam Abdel Basit is an Irish cultural mediator who has spent seven months with MSF in Lesbos in Greece this year. Working alongside a psychologist, she met countless displaced children in Moria camp, which houses more than 7,500 refugees in a space meant for 3,100. After fleeing violence, war, persecution or poverty, people crossed the […]
Dr Richard Graham is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of Good Thinking: The London Digital Mental Well-being Service, who will be talking on the subject of surviving and thriving in the digital age at the upcoming Royal Society of Medicine meeting, Digital mental health for children and young people on Monday 3rd December. Social media […]
To mark World Aids Day (1st December 2018), Marc Thompson of the Terrence Higgins Trust talks about progress on reducing new cases of HIV in the UK. ‘We have come a long way to achieving our aspiration of getting down to zero new cases of HIV in the UK although we haven’t got there yet. […]
Hospitals across the UK need a staggering 6,000 blood donations every day. However, in order to meet this demand, an additional 190,000 new donors are needed every year. Yet figures show almost half of blood donors are over the age of 45 and 81% of 18-24 year olds have never given blood. There are many […]