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Chronic Conditions 19th October 2015

Hollywood and social media bring motor neuron disease into the spotlight

Thanks to last summer’s Ice Bucket Challenge frenzy on social media followed by the Oscar-winning film The Theory of Everything about the life of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, motor neuron disease (MND) has gone from a relatively unknown illness ...

• by Karen Finn

Chronic Conditions 21st September 2015

When early Alzheimer’s runs in the family

What would you do if your children had a 50-50 chance of inheriting Alzheimer’s from you? This question swirled around in my head for hours after watching Still Alice, a film about a fictional 50-year-old linguistics professor called Alice ...

• by Karen Finn

Pure Tech 12th August 2015

Wouldn’t it be great if we all had our own healthcare robot?

A robot greeting you with “Hello, I’m your personal healthcare companion” isn’t as far-fetched as Disney’s Big Hero 6 might make you think. In the film, a science student builds Baymax ‒ an inflatable robot prototype-turned-superhero that’s about ...

• by Karen Finn

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