Medicine
Dressed to kill: What do infectious disease agents have in their wardrobes?
The ability of certain pathogens, such as those which cause malaria, influenza and HIV, to disguise themselves and evade host immunity poses an enormous challenge to developing vaccines against these important diseases. Just what do these bugs have in their wardrobes that enables them to keep outwitting us? Can we find a way to use this knowledge against them?
By Sunetra Gupta | Notebook, Science & Technology | Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 12:38 pm
Why did the Supreme Court deliver President Obama an unexpected favour?
It is a little over a week since the US Supreme Court delivered its landmark judgment on President Obama’s signature policy achievement in office so far, the Affordable Care Act, which extends medical insurance coverage to additional tens of millions of Americans as well as covering those with pre-existing conditions.
By Leighton Vaughan Williams | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Friday, 6 July 2012 at 3:34 pm
Doctors’ strike: Is it really just about greed?
Today is the day where doctors (some not all) take industrial action over government planned pension reforms; its arrival set against a backdrop of great controversy and debate.
By Dr Sima Barmania | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 21 June 2012 at 12:10 pm
Will tuition fees end the prospects of mature medical students?
Mature medical students come from a more varied background than their undergraduate Contemporaries. Has the rise in tuition fees made studying medicine unattainable to a whole generation of potentially excellent doctors.
By Dr Ben Daniels | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Thursday, 2 February 2012 at 12:01 am
The medical profession has a strangely schizophrenic attitude when it comes to pain
For the last few months I’ve been learning all about pain.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 1:54 pm
The case for HIV treatment as prevention
HIV treatment continues to be a lifeline for people living with the condition and it is a subject that continues to interest anyone remotely interested in the issue.
By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma | Health, Notebook | Friday, 28 October 2011 at 9:33 am
People should be free to take smart drugs if they choose to
If you could take a pill that would instantly improve your memory or increase your ability to make sense of complex ideas, perhaps even make discoveries worthy of a Nobel prize, would you?
By Andy Miah | Battle of Ideas | Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 6:00 am
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