24th May 2016
Europe must make it easier to connect the dots between cancer patients’ health records. Information is power. But unless health information is recorded and shared, it is impossible for doctors to make informed decisions about patient care. There is a ...
11th February 2016
Photographs and films have seen a rapid transformation from black and white to color over the last century. Our x-rays, however, have always remained in black and white. X-rays have been used to look inside the human body since 1895, when ...
5th January 2016
A final twist in the remarkable story of a young boy with a rare immune disease that forced him to live life in a bubble. David Vetter’s life was truly unique. From the day he was born until shortly ...
17th November 2015
Lucille Horn’s parents were told to plan their baby girl’s funeral – that ‘baby’ is now 95! In the early 20th century, preterm babies – or ‘preemies’ – rarely survived. In fact, most doctors thought it was pointless to try because the ...
4th September 2015
Measles are often thought to be a plague of the past, an ancient evil which only haunts some remote areas of the earth, caused by a virus so rare, vaccinations are superfluous. A trip to the past In ancient history, ...
26th October 2014
Imagine you had never heard sound – until your doctor flicked a switch and introduced you to a sense you had never known. Or think for a moment what it would mean to you to lose your hearing as a child ...
15th September 2014
“If a plumber can do it with pipes, we can do it with blood vessels.” That’s the simple starting point for an idea that opened the door to half a decade of successful surgeries for an estimated 60 million survivors ...
6th September 2014
No, it wasn't always bionic. It certainly didn't move with neuro-command or feel. But ancient prosthetics were helping their users get from point A to B long before the term 'prosthetic' had even been coined. But there was always a ...
1st September 2014