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Interviews about Medicine
Interviews about medicine, physiology, pathology, bacteria and viruses, pharmacology, food, hormones, neuroscience and psychology...
06 February 2015
Light can be used to control the motility of sperm.
02 February 2015
Faecal transplants, or "transpoosions", might be a way to restore good bacteria to your insides. But will...
02 February 2015
Neurologists are starting to look at gut bugs because there may be a link between your microbiome and your mental state...
02 February 2015
How does our intestinal microbial spectrum compare with what lived in our ancestors' intestines?
02 February 2015
The mouth is infested with microbes, so how many bugs do we swap with a kiss?
02 February 2015
Your own cells are outnumbered by the bacteria living in and on you. Meet your microbiome!
02 February 2015
The timing of a race during the day can seriously impact sporting performance, depending on whether you're an...
02 February 2015
Punishments like prison don't deter psychopaths from re-offending, and new research reveals this is down to the...
02 February 2015
Chronic stress in mothers can harm the ability to transfer nutrients to a foetus, resulting in lower birthweight babies...
02 February 2015
Chicks, just like humans, count from left to right, which has big implications in understanding why it is we do this.
26 January 2015
A drug that protects against radiation exposure, and might cut side-effects for radiotherapy patients, has worked...
20 January 2015
The explosive incident that had me laid up on a stretcher, with a scrubbed up attending doctor, driving back to the...
20 January 2015
Braving the congested roads of Kolkata with an anesthetist, who took Hannah to one of his favourite spots in the city...
20 January 2015
After neurological tests and psychiatric assesments, Babu's results are revealed and his treatment advised...
20 January 2015
How does mental health stigma in India compare to the UK? And do the class and caste systems here affect treatments?
20 January 2015
Getting to grips with Babu's medical mystery by analysing his footprints....
20 January 2015
The story of an ambitious fruit stall boy who travelled the world, worked in brain surgery and then came home to India...
20 January 2015
A grand opening of the 150 bed Institute of Neurosciences, Kolkata.
20 January 2015
Should we be adapting our lifestyle to suit our sleep needs? A new study with teenagers suggests we should be...
20 January 2015
Lucid dreaming is the ability to take control of your dreams. But how do you do it...?
20 January 2015
Almost all of us will at some point blurt out nonsense during our sleep, but why do we say what we say?
20 January 2015
Sleep deprivation: an unfortunate reality in people's lives. Soldiers live on just 4 hours sleep a night for...
20 January 2015
What happens to the brain's biochemistry when we sleep, and is sleep deprivation a risk factor for...
14 January 2015
Our gene of the month sounds like a Scottish warrior - it's Braveheart