Tag: medicine
Marijuana and cancer
Marijuana has long been the subject of debate, pro-legalisation campaigners argue that marijuana can cure a wide variety of diseases (as a quick google...
Do You Believe in Magic (Mushrooms)?
ALDOUS Huxley famously wrote "take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."
Sounds...
A Placebo … For the Public?!?
In a recent event run by the University of Exeter's Debating Society (DebSoc), I had the pleasure of arguing the proposition side for the...
Could A Pill a Day Keep the Jogging at Bay?
The benefits of exercise are manifold, something we all know to be a fact. Exercise reduces the risk of major illnesses, including cancer, heart...
CRISPR, Genetic Manipulation!
GENOMIC manipulation, whether due to its connotations of ‘futuristic mad scientist’ or what appears as sheer complexity of patterns of heredity, is consistently associated...
Fake News
We’ve all seen classic knock off products, perhaps you’ve been tempted to buy them? You wouldn’t be alone. 40% of people in a UK...
AIDs changed the world. Now the world of AIDs is changing.
The now-infamous AIDS epidemic was first reported in June 1981. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported an astonishing 774,467 cases of AIDS within the...
Resistance Is Futile!!!
You hear stories about it in the news weekly, but just what is antibiotic resistance, and is the future of antibiotic era of healthcare...
Give their Hearts a hug: a new heart treatment
Researchers at Harvard University have developed a novel treatment for heart failure. The new treatment is a robotic silicone sleeve that mimics heart function....
Memento mori: Escaping death
'I have always been terrified of death, and no philosopher or holy man has been able to convince me otherwise.' Such are the words...
