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Where to spend for malaria? Global Health Trials look for the answers
The malaria mosquito forming the eye-sockets of a skull, representing death from malaria. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941. Malaria remains one of the world’s biggest disease burdens, but where...
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Around the world in 80 days – Part 7: South Africa
Zwelethu absorbs the sight of a massive shanty town Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art in...
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Weight-loss surgery – it’s not all about pounds and ounces
Would you donate a sample of butt fat for research? If asked, I would probably say no to letting someone take a chunk out of my ‘junk’. Fortunately for researchers at the Wellcome Trust Clinical...
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Brains: the ethics of new technologies
Last week the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published their latest report, Novel Neurotechnologies: intervening in the brain. Emma Rhule attended the launch. EEG cap – used during transcranial...
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Elizabeth Blackwell: the first women to qualify as a doctor in America
Elizabeth Blackwell. Photomechanical print by Swaine. by Sarah Blackmore, University of Bristol Most people, if asked to name historical influential females in the world of medicine, would probably...
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From the outside in: How eczema could lead to food allergies
Baby with eczema New research suggests that babies might become sensitive to food through damaged skin, for example in eczema. You wouldn’t think you could develop a food allergy through your skin, but...
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World Mosquito Day – a Wellcome Perspective
Today is World Mosquito Day and we commemorate the discovery back in 1897 of the link between mosquitoes and malaria. Since this discovery major progress has been achieved in malaria control with...
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I’m exhausted, is something wrong with me?
A recent conference held at the University of Kent, funded by a Wellcome Trust medical humanities small grant explored the different medical, psychiatric, and social narratives on the origins and cures...
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Why every hospital should have a garden
Hospitals aim to treat patients and help them get better as soon as possible, but what if there were something other than medical supervision and expertise that could speed up the healing process?...
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Life-saving radio
Two men recording a pre-recorded spot for the radio show. Can mass media save lives? Marta Tufet on the first randomized control trial of this in Burkina Faso. A farmer in Burkina Faso turns on the...
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Will you share your patient records?
The Wellcome Trust has long been a strong advocate of making the best use of data resources, and this includes information in our health records. The Trust is this week funding a national advertising...
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Can gene therapy help restore sight? – new research
Gene therapy is a growing field of research but there are many challenges to overcome before research reaches patients as routine treatment. The Wellcome Trust’s Technology Transfer Division aims to...
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Image of the Week: Sneezing
Aaatchhhooo! And yuck! If the old public information film “Coughs and sneezes spread diseases” hasn’t convinced you to cover your mouth when you sneeze, perhaps this dramatic image will. This...
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Why the Wellcome Trust and JDRF believe in investing in autoimmune research
The Wellcome Trust recently hosted a joint meeting with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) to discuss the common mechanisms of autoimmune disease and look at how collaborative research...
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Healthcare app to improve maternal an infant health in India
The Wellcome Trust has funded the development of a mobile healthcare app called ‘DRISTHI’ to help track maternal and infant health in rural India. Deborah Hawkes, from the Technology Transfer team at...
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Image of the Week: Artificial Eyes
Q: What connects Shakespeare, Sammy Davies Junior and Nick Griffin? A: Artificial eyes, as featured in this Image of the Week. Shakespeare wrote of them in King Lear – “get thee glass eyes; and, like...
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Relative Risk: Breast Cancer and Genetics
Last week the Progress Educational Trust held an event called Relative Risk: Breast Cancer and Genetics, supported by the Wellcome Trust. This was the first event in a series looking at issues...
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By JoVE, I think they’ve got it! A multimedia approach to intervention...
Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Mary Dixon-Woods is Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Leicester. She was recently involved in a large international team that published the TIDieR...
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Image of the Week: World Malaria Day 2014
To mark World Malaria Day, our image of the week shows blood samples taken from villagers on the Thailand-Myanmar border before they go under the microscope to be examined for signs of the malaria...
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Estimating how many people need treatment during an Ebola outbreak
Today the Wellcome Trust has announced a multi-million pound funding package to support research during the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa. There’s no sign of an end to the outbreak and many...
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