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Moments in Medicine podcast - The impact of individuals

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Hard Times 2009: The great escape

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

It’s not just a big-budget, high drama, beautiful game. Paul Vallely finds out why football is a social service for an insecure age

Bereaved children: We need to talk about death

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Sir Al Aynsley-Green knows how it feels to lose a parent at a young age – and now he wants to help other bereaved children. By Amol Rajan

How to avoid holiday health hazards

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Even minor problems can ruin your precious weeks in the sun. Simon Usborne gets some expert advice on how to stay fit and well this summer

Should we leave babies to cry?

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

One of the most popular fashions of the moment for training a baby to sleep is "controlled crying", where you leave your baby to cry for long periods with the hope that in the end they will stop crying and eventually learn to put themselves to sleep. Two things bother me about this concept. The first is I loathe the word "training" in the context of babies. Babies shouldn't be trained. Before being developmentally ready, a baby can't be trained. Once a baby is developmentally ready, he or she doesn't need training. The second is that I shrink from leaving a baby to cry for long periods. A mother's natural instincts tell her to go to her crying baby, so why has controlled crying become a strut of 21st-century child-rearing and where did it come from in the first place?

Moments in Medicine podcast - Health and Race

Friday, 5 June 2009

The 10 Best Herbal Remedies

Friday, 5 June 2009

You might think it's a load of mumbo jumbo but you won't know until you've tried.

Putting your life in the hands of medical robots

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Robots as assistants to the surgeon

Jeremy Laurance: Surgeon wanted. No previous experience necessary

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Medical Life

'I found the child I wanted – in Iraq'

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

War reporter Hala Jaber longed to be a mother. So when she saw Baghdad families shattered by conflict, she simply couldn't walk away. By Simon Usborne

Health scares: A dose of common sense

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

The numbers may be alarming – but what's the real risk of catching swine flu or developing cancer? Jane Feinmann calculates the truth behind the data

Super-high-factor cream: Coming to Britain soon?

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

A sunscreen boasting SPF 100+ is now on sale. But why do skin cancer experts think it's a waste of money?

Erin Norman: Imagination is a wonderful thing

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

I was sitting with my mouth wide open, the doctor was saying “open wide and say aaaaaaahhh” and I was obeying – with fear. This is a horrible moment really isn’t it, we none of us love having medical instruments pushed into the recesses of our mouth.

Better, faster... and no office politics: the company with the autistic specialists

Sunday, 31 May 2009

A pioneering company in Denmark is giving people with autism the chance to apply their skills to jobs from IT to product testing. The result is a huge success that's about to be rolled out across Europe.

Moments in Medicine podcast - Disease in the Jet Age

Thursday, 28 May 2009

The third in our series of Moments in Medicine podcasts explores the way that plague and disease has altered since the dawn of international travel.

Charles Hunt: NICE pat on the back for osteopathy

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

This morning as I got my usual fix of breakfast TV news, I found every major channel covering the new NICE guidelines (released today) on the treatment of back pain, which endorse the effectiveness of manual therapy including manipulation as currently given by osteopaths across the country.

Sarah Kline: How we can kick out malaria

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Football and malaria. On the surface, there are no obvious commonalities, yet both affect millions of lives worldwide. Football captivates and connects mass audiences across the globe while malaria is one of the world's most deadly diseases, threatening half the world's population and claiming almost a million lives every year.