Camels and codeine – wilderness medicine

wilderness

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 […]

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A healing garden

The beautiful show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show are examples of garden designers’ art and horticultural skill, but gardens throughout the UK showcase a wide range of potent medicinal plants in nature. Galantamine, which is used for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease and various other memory impairments, is an alkaloid […]

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Bridging the gap – between medicine and philanthropy

The Hippocratic Post - philanthropy

“To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power.  But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter”.    Aristotle  It never fails to amaze me that those in search of funding […]

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