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Tobacco has imposed a terrible toll on global health, but it could be used to produce the molecules we need to fight COVID-19.
The UK government are finally waking up to the problem of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
A new study on death rates following emergency procedures shows that higher staffing levels are associated with better odds of surviving.
Despite adoption of home testing in the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is still holding out.
The three Cs that have caused much controversy in research: cancer, cannabis and cannabinoids.
We are entering a new age of genome sequencing, but we have to draw some ethical lines
The most ardent supporters of alcohol must admit it causes an immense amount of harm.
Evidence that vitamin B can reduce the levels of an amino acid that is a risk factor for dementia have been sidelined by one flawed study.
The Ebola pandemic cutting a swathe through West Africa is thought to have begun in December 2013. A year later the WHO estimates more than 20,000 men, women and children have been infected with the virus…
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. I usually begin my end of life ethics lecture with one of Dylan Thomas’ best-loved…
While the medical world is transfixed by the urgency of finding and testing new potential treatments for Ebola, the House of Lords is wrestling with how to employ treatments that have not been tested for…
Widely proscribed around the world for its recreational uses, cannabis is being used in a number of different therapeutic ways to bring relief for severe medical conditions. Products using cannabinoids…
GlakoSmithKline (GSK) is currenlty feeling the heat from the allegations of foreign corruption that have erupted in China, Poland, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon and the company is scrambling to restore…
The current outbreak of Ebola is the worst in history. Almost 2,000 people have been infected and around 1,000 people have died. The outbreak seems to have originated in Guinea and has now spread to Sierra…
A century ago the world went to war. When the conflagration finally ended 10m soldiers lay dead. Among the fallen were 18 medical doctors who had trained at St George’s Hospital and countless more from…
Medicine is a visual discipline and so it is perhaps unsurprising that comics about illness and its treatment are increasingly popular. Comic art is creating new ways of seeing illness. Images of disease…
Every year malaria kills more than 600,000, which is a little less than the population of Bhutan. There are some simple solutions to control the disease, but keeping the numbers of mosquitoes with malarial…
Empathy is having a moment. Author Roman Krznaric, founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, called for an empathy revolution, arguing that empathy is a transformative force. Organisations…
Clinical research is going global. The number of trials conducted in countries like India and China is steadily growing and a significant proportion of marketing applications for new drugs in countries…
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Research Methods and Statistics, St George's, University of London
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Senior Clinical Lecturer, St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics and Law, St George's, University of London
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Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law, St George's, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Behavioural Medicine, St George's, University of London
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Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology, St George's, University of London
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Lecturer in the Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London
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Professor of Neurology, St George's, University of London
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Senior lecturer, St George's, University of London
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St George's, University of London
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Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medicine, St George's, University of London
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, St George's, University of London
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Reader in Cerebrovascular Genetics, St George's, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, St George's, University of London
