Many people participate in biomedical research and it is estimated that one in 30 of us is enrolled in a cohort study at any one time. These studies contribute to, and enhance, our understanding of health…
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Many of us live in a world where we can access and edit personal information online and on the move. Whether it is checking bank balances, amending grocery orders, or informing the world of our most recent…
The American Surgeon General published the first federal government report linking smoking and ill health 50 years ago. The report also demanded that the American government take appropriate remedial action…
Across hospitals and doctor’s surgeries every day, patients have to make difficult choices. But for most of us the freedom to decide what happens to our bodies is taken for granted – doctors recommend…
For people with learning disabilities the world can be a bewildering and strange place to get to grips with, but in hospitals it can be even worse. Sometimes members of staff at a busy hospital simply…
2013 was an auspicious year for medical research. A new vaccine for malaria was developed, there was a revolution in DNA analysis, and there was a major advance in human cloning when stem cells were produced…
It was late on a Friday afternoon in November. I was a 21 year-old medical student diligently waiting for an opportunity to practice some medical procedures when a patient was admitted who was happy for…
Most people agree on the qualities that a leader should have: we prefer to follow people who are confident, decisive, ambitious and persuasive rather than the insecure, dithering, apathetic and weak. So…
Anxiety is a common experience. It is entirely normal to feel anxious in certain circumstances or when imagining possible misfortunes. However, for some people it gets out of hand and severely affects…
Controlling malaria is a war being waged on many fronts. Mosquito nets and coils repel mosquitoes from their human feast; vaccines protect us from the inside and environmental measures clear the stagnant…
Patients have gone online, digital natives are entering medical schools and regulatory bodies, like the General Medical Council in the UK, are scrambling to respond to the impact these changes are having…
The announcement that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) aims to register a malaria vaccine came on the same day Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for predicting the existence…
Legend has is that the first human transplant took place in the 3rd century AD. The “lucky” recipient was said to be a sacristian called Justinian who received a donated leg from a recently demised Ethiopian…
Black Wednesday. The July Phenomenon. The Killing Season. Disquieting. Disconcerting. Disturbing. To what event do these evocative terms refer? A stock market crash? A solar eclipse? Genocide? Not even…
Sometime in the third millennium BC, if not before, some entrepreneurial warrior donned a helmet to protect his brain from blows to the head. He may have been mocked as a coward, but soon enough copper…
A new study from the American Academy of Neurology suggests that traumatic brain injury could be one of the many factors associated with the risk of ischaemic stroke. A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is…
Malaria hits rural dwellers in poor countries the hardest. Those bitten by the wrong mosquito often do not know for many days that they have contracted malaria. Some have little or no access to doctors…
Empathy and compassion, or the lack thereof, have been making waves in the healthcare arena. David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, recently bemoaned a lack of compassion in the nursing profession…
Melanomas may be less common than other skin cancers but their ability to become malignant and spread to other parts of the body makes them some of the deadliest if not caught early. More than 10,000 people…
In 1798 the British physician, Edward Jenner, described how he had used infective material from the pustules of patients suffering from cowpox to inoculate healthy children in order to immunise them against…
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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
