3rd October 2016
Millie Kenner, my mother, was living in her own apartment and about to celebrate her 80th birthday when she slipped on the bathroom floor and fractured her spine. Unable to reach a phone, she remained there until a neighbor came ...
27th January 2016
Mike Higginbottom blamed his struggles with exercise on being unfit…until his heart stopped beating one day at the gym. “Apparently I pirouetted off the cross trainer, fell on my back and hit my head. I was out like a ...
3rd November 2015
Prostate cancer, hernias, multiple surgeries, and a stoma: Tony was alive, but his quality of life was suffering. That’s when his surgeon came to him with an idea. He would reconstruct Tony’s abdominal wall… using pig skin. Tony’...
4th June 2015
When we use a radio, we switch it on, tune into the station we want to listen to and then adjust the volume by turning it up and down. Could we switch conditions like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s off ...
5th March 2015
We all know the risk factors for heart disease. Diabetes, high blood pressure, family history, smoking, etc. If we don’t have those issues we try to feel relieved. But in the back of our minds we remember the story ...
29th January 2015
A while back, exoskeletons seemed to exist only in blockbuster movies like Iron man or Elysium. Then, the first real exoskeleton, which helped the paralyzed stand up, walk or climb stairs, became reality. Even the kid who had the first ...
17th December 2014
Close to a million men from the UK through Finland to Singapore pledge to growing moustaches for 30 days in November. And it’s a lot more serious than it sounds. It's Movember. A global campaign rooted form Australia and now ...
16th December 2014
The thought of an artificial organ that’s keeping you alive from outside your body – literally carrying the blood through tubes from your body into a machine sitting next to you, which cleans it and then pumps it back into ...
12th December 2014
If you’re one of the millions of people around the world who chooses contact lenses (or has perfect sight), you’ll already know how amazing it feels to drive, swim or just go for a walk in the rain ...
They call it the long goodbye. People with Alzheimer's disease slowly but surely slip away, losing their memory and, often, their personality. They forget their families, and their loved ones barely recognise the person they once knew. It begins with ...