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Focus on Stroke
It’s estimated to cost the economy £8 billion per year in England. It causes more than 50 000 deaths every year in the UK and leaves hundreds of thousands more people disabled. A quarter of cases occur...
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Arts, anarchy and cancer: a symposium
Screen grabs of Nick Rothwell’s Voronoi cell systems with tumours growing amidst the organisms and causing systemic collapse. The system is based on venous network geometries supplied by Simon...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Defeat tuberculosis (1950)
This month’s film was produced by the government funded Central Office of Information for the Ministry of Health. The Central Office of Information was established in 1946 as the successor to the...
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Q&A: Vicky Robinson – answering a difficult question with the 3Rs
A researcher handling a mouse. The use of animals in research is one of the most difficult and emotive ethical dilemmas confronting the life sciences. Few of us are comfortable with the thought, but,...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Water, Water Everywhere
The opening bars to Legionnaires’ Disease, a Health and Safety Executive sponsored video, are from ‘El Moldova’ (a tone poem called Má vlast by Smetana); it describes the river Vlatava which runs...
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From bench to field: Most advanced TB vaccine in pivotal trials
An eager trial participant in the MVA85A phase IIB infant trial in South Africa. Professor Helen McShane writes from the frontline of efforts to develop the first new TB vaccine in 90 years. The...
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It’s going to work better – how do we change commuter behaviour?
Photo by Dimitry B Standing at London Bridge underground station recently, I was startled by the disembodied voice of the Mayor brusquely advising caution around my travel plans over the Olympic...
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Appliance of Science: “Artists need to put themselves into their art”
Richard Tyrone Jones. Credit: Andrew Crowe. My name is Richard Tyrone Jones. I have heart failure, and for the last year I’ve been developing a solo show talking about how and why this happened –...
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Wellcome Film of the Month: Get Fit!
This jaunty black and white public health film sponsored by the British Medical Association (BMA) aims to encourage the audience to use the National Eye Service, an organisation aimed at providing eye...
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Lancet Series: Couch potatoes’ chips are up
In a post a while back I looked at the attempts to understand commuter behaviour in order to encourage active transport (e.g. cycling or walking). This is all very worthy but is there real value in the...
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Society Awards Themed Call: Health in a Changing World
Tom Anthony explains why our latest Society Awards are aimed at health and the environment, and how you might apply for this funding. The effects of climate change can seem remote, both geographically...
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Q&A: Cesar Victora – 30 years of Brazil cohort studies
Birth cohort studies follow large numbers of people from birth, collecting information on the health, environmental and socio-economic factors that may affect their long-term health outcomes and human...
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100 years of state health services in Scotland
What can we learn from the origins of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service, and how could it help to develop the future of rural and remote health services in Scotland and all around the world? Dr...
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Sharing the wealth: The treasure hidden in patient information
With the launch of a public consultation on the proposals for reforms to the NHS Constitution, we outline why suggested measures to help make patient information available to health researchers will...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Men’s Health
Abnormal human sperm To coincide with ‘Movember’, this month’s focus is on men’s health. Behind the month-long moustache growing event is an important message: to raise awareness of men’s health...
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Hacking biomedical science in 30 hours
A volunteer tries Hackbox On Sunday 10 December 2012 I had my first hackathon experience. A hackathon is essentially a computing marathon, in this case about 30 hours long, fuelled by pizza, sugar and...
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Feature: deceptive appearances – engineering cartilage
An illustration of the changes in articular cartilage that occur in osteoarthritis. Credit: Medical Art Service, Munich, Wellcome Images. The tiny area of uncertainty that is inevitably left by...
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HAT tip: researchers map African sleeping sickness
Above: One of the maps produced by the study. The map shows the distribution of HAT risk in Congo, with five deepening shades of colour representing five categories of risk from ‘very low’ to ‘very...
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Feature: The biggest poisoning in history
One of the more bitter ironies of human existence is the way the best of our intentions can fall foul of Murphy’s Law and wind up as paving stones on the proverbial road to hell. A recent, devastating...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 3: Malawi
Scientists in Malawi working with ‘locals’ around 30km from the nearest hospital Over the course of four months, Barry J Gibb visited the Wellcome Trust’s major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia...
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