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Urbanised Tuberculosis: A Letter from the Townships

Township near Cape Town, South Africa. “As a medical student we would often be sent to rural clinics on the...

To Blame or Not to Blame: The Medical Profession and Blame Culture

Traditionally, medicine has been taught by imitation, apprenticeship and humiliation. Think Sir Lancelot Spratt. Whilst that has clearly improved, there...

Stephen McGann: Representations of medicine on TV

To kick off 2016 we welcome Stephen McGann, actor of BBC drama Call the Midwife and author of the upcoming...

Lunch Hour Lectures: Truth and lies: medicine in the media

There has never been a more confusing time to consume health information, as scientists and doctors struggle to agree and...

Lunch Hour Lectures: Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine

Cannabis has been used throughout history for medicinal as well as pleasurable effects. Its 100 unique ingredients vary widely in...

Light and Dark Matters: Harnessing Light

From gas lamps to LEDs and medical lasers, a panel of artists, scientists and theorists asks what role light plays in...

Wellcome Library Insights: Poison

Tales of poisonings have had a hold on the popular imagination for centuries, often blurring truth and fiction. Do untraceable...

Ebola: Inside an Epidemic

Join Dame Sally Davies, chief medical advisor to the UK government, as she leads a discussion on the 2014 Ebola...

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Newly discovered antibodies bring hope of universal dengue vaccine

Leading researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Melbourne have identified a new class of potent antibodies that...

War, Art and Surgery: Andrew Graham-Dixon on Henry Tonks

Art Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon examines Henry Tonks' remarkable watercolours documenting the facial injuries suffered by servicemen during the First World...