Interviews about Medicine

Wednesday, December the 1st is going to be World Aids Day and 2011 actually marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery...

This week, the the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience took place in San Diego, California. This is the...

We find out what impact cognition enhancers, or "smart drugs" have on the brain, and ask why so many students...

Brain-boosting drugs raise some interesting ethical questions, ones that we’re likely to need to address more and more...

New research has identified how tumours attract stem cells from around the body that are capable of suppressing the...

10 years ago, a seminal paper entitled “The Hallmarks of Cancer” was published in the journal Cell, examining the state...

Now for many years, scientists have known that viruses are the direct causes of some cancers and probably the best...

This week, we look into the science and engineering of ultrasound, and find out how it can be used to look for tumours...

Dr Suzy Lishman joined us this week to introduce National Pathology Week 2010, and to answer your questions on...

HIV is the agent that causes AIDS and is responsible for probably the worst pandemic that human kind has ever...

When HIV was first discovered about 30 years ago, there was significant optimism that we’d soon have a vaccine with...

This week, researchers have made another interesting finding in regard to what actually happens when a person puts on a...

On today’s show, we’re talking about neuromarketing, but what actually is it? Sarah Castor-Perry caught up with Gemma...

We’re talking about advertising and one of the main aims of an advert or a billboard, or a poster is of course to...

Well, one thing that is fairly ubiquitous to most adverts is the presence of a celebrity. Clutching a bottle of...

Neuromarketing is the use of behavioural and neurological studies to market and advertise products. But how exactly do...

Historically, scientists thought that the most severe form of malaria, known as falciparum malaria, first spread into...

Using computers to read the mind might seem more suited to the pages of a sci-fi thriller, but scientists are edging...

As well as helping us to understand what’s going on in the brain when it’s at work, brain scanning techniques can also...

If the joints in your hands and feet are stiff and for an hour or more in the mornings, you may be suffering from...

Robin Lovell-Badge is from the National Institute for Medical Research and he’s been researching public opinion of...

Also in the news this week, EPSRC funded researchers up in Glasgow have been investigating how we respond emotionally...

The man who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the bacterium that is responsible for stomach ulcers actually munched...

A slightly grizzly start to this week as we’re looking at Bronze Age cremations. During the period which spans roughly...