HIV – getting new cases down to zero
To mark World Aids Day (1st December 2018), Marc Thompson of the Terrence Higgins Trust talks about progress on reducing…
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HIV testing in the UK – black African communities
With black African people disproportionately affected by HIV in the UK, promotion of regular testing remains a key priority. While…
Understanding type 2 diabetes in Malawi
Researchers at the University of Glasgow are collaborating with Malawian scientists to try to find out why some people in…
Remembering Stephen Hawking
When Stephen Hawking and I first met through our families’ common interest in autism, I respectfully addressed him as Professor…
Operation Smile
Since 1982, Operation Smile has provided hundreds of thousands of safe surgeries for those born with cleft conditions. Last year,…
Global audit of colorectal operations
The European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP) has undertaken a major international audit of colorectal operations to understand which are most…
The EpiPen shortage
If you are one of the estimated 250,000 people in the UK who are prescribed emergency adrenaline for life-threatening allergies,…
Global analysis of deaths from chronic diseases
Most nations falling short of UN targets to cut premature deaths from chronic diseases. People in the UK, US and China…
Rocking your role – women as the bread winners
I am an executive coach and an author of a book called ‘Rocking Your Role’ which is a guide to…
Nursing during the 1918 flu pandemic
A new exhibition opening at the Florence Nightingale Museum, in the basement of St Thomas’s Hospital, London, on 21st September…