Interviews about Medicine

New eLife editor-in-chief Mike Eisen shares his vision of how science should be communicated

Genetic analyses can help to pinpoint where people got infected with malaria, enabling better interventions...

Inflammation in newborns disrupts how their nervous systems make breathing adjustments later in life...

How is air pollution from transport affecting our health, and what can be done about it?

A combined vaccine against Ebola virus, Marburg and Lassa fever.

How are vaccines tested, and do they have side effects?

Where do these beliefs come from and how do we address them?

What are vaccines and how do they protect us?

We rock babies to sleep, why not adults?

Why is there a paucity of new drugs for mental illness?

Because chemical connections between neurons are slightly unreliable, it doesn’t always help to have more...

Scientists have managed to temporarily boost the working memory of older people...

How do doctors go about helping people who suffer from dementia?

How many different types of dementia are there?

How good are we at spotting men with post natal depression?

Modelling the human gut on a chip

How good are wasps at logical reasoning? We've been finding out!

A new test can tell which patients will benefit from early aggressive therapy for inflammatory bowel diseases

Viruses offer an alternative to antibiotics for treating resistant bacterial infections.

Injured lungs, previously unfit for transplant, can be repaired and then transplanted using a new technique.

Our panel unravel the science behind common mythconceptions.

How do you help sick race horses?

How might genetics be important for treating obesity?

Using stem cells to heal wounds