19th October 2015
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 ...
21st September 2015
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 ...
12th August 2015
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 ...