Interviews about Medicine

How do we go from an egg and sperm, to a baby, ready to be born?

How long does it take to get pregnant, and at what point should you go to see a doctor if you're worried?

Does the brain respond differently between reading and listening?

Have a fear of heights? A virtual reality therapist could help...

Using light to improve hearing issues.

If someone told you that they wanted to treat your cancer by injecting you with more cancer cells, you’d be right to be...

How does sunscreen protect your skin?

How the parasite Toxoplasma gondii adapts its growth rate to its environment

The size of the placebo effect depends on how precise our expectations about a treatment are.

Does the microbiome hang on to genes to degrade plant toxins, and drugs, just for our benefit?

The brain region that encourages you to binge, even when you're full...

What's the scale of the US' opioid crisis?

What is addiction and how does it affect the brain?

Could scientists free diabetic patients from insulin injections?

What's the human impact of a volcanic eruption?

Can Twitter be used to answer scientific questions about our collective mood?

Could marriage cut your risk of cardiovascular disease?

Nanoparticles to the rescue....

Developing new drugs is extremely costly; can we re-purpose a diabetes drug to benefit the heart?

What if we had a vaccine to prevent unclogged up arteries?

What can we do to reduce the risk of heart problems?

As we age, an increasing proportion of the cells in our tissues become “zombified”...

And why is salt a problem?

According to the World Health Organisation, "air pollution is now the world's largest single environmental...