I hate to be bored. And always want to do new things and make new things happen. So I’ve always been involved with research. I started aged 18 as an IT researcher prior to managing computer systems, electronics, avionics and atomic research for the government. Nowadays I fund medical research in autism spectrum disorders. Despite […]
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Are we becoming a nation of digital technology addicts? Surely the figures speak for themselves. The average iPhone user unlocks their device 80 times per day, according to figures released by Apple earlier this year. Researchers from Nottingham Trent University in 2015 showed that young adults spend around one third of their waking hours using […]
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 and his complex family life 160 years after Sigmund Freud’s birth, today’s artists still remain fascinated by the father of psychoanalysis. From 30th September, The Freud Museum, London, will launch […]
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 to Kenya with British Exploring. As well as working in a small orphanage near Lake Naivasha, I got the chance to climb Mount Kenya and take 24 camels on a […]
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. Sabeti immediately released her research online, so virus trackers and scientists from around the world could join in the urgent fight. In this talk, she shows how open cooperation […]
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Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don’t harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down the toilet as a resource, one that can help fight climate change, spur innovation and even save us money. […]
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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 the Traditional Herbal Medicinal and Herbal Products directive in 2004 which came into force in 2011. This means that no herbal remedy medicine can be legally sold throughout the EU unless it has […]
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 for the entire UK cosmetic surgery industry, opening it up to a wave of investigations and reviews and exposing its gravest flaws. Undoubtedly one of the industry’s greatest weaknesses was […]
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 indirectly as between 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 of us will develop psychiatric illness in our adulthood. They have a wide range of diagnoses from phobias to personality […]
The healthcare industry in America is so focused on pathology, surgery and pharmacology — on what doctors “do” to patients — that it often overlooks the values of the human beings it’s supposed to care for. Palliative care physician Timothy Ihrig explains the benefits of a different approach, one that fosters a patient’s overall quality […]