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Interviews about Medicine
Interviews about medicine, physiology, pathology, bacteria and viruses, pharmacology, food, hormones, neuroscience and psychology...
What role might genes play in COVID-19?
World Health Organisation has suspended clinical trials for hydroxychloroquine
What chemical fingerprints does COVID-19 leave in the bloodstream?
Combining treatments to increase sensitivity to anti-fungal drugs
Some asymptomatic hospital staff are carrying coronavirus...
Could teenagers' mental wellbeing impact how well they adhere to social distancing guidelines?
Why are virtual conversations so much more tiring than face to face ones?
Mental health researcher Olivia Remes shares her tips for keeping mentally well during lockdown...
Do we know how digitally excluded people are coping with the stress of lockdown?
Could a simple ‘sniff test’ predict recovery of severely brain-injured patients?
What's it like to see your doctor over webcam, rather than waiting room?
Anosmia has recently been added to the UK's list of coronavirus symptoms to self-isolate with...
Our conversations have gone virtual like never before. How do video chats compare with face-to-face?
At Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, staff had been working without realising they'd had the coronavirus...
How does the UK's new contact tracing app rank on privacy and data security?
A study shows that common variations of the ACE2 gene don't affect factors like blood pressure...
Computer modelling shows versions of the ACE2 gene that may change how the virus binds to cells...
A popular UK symptom tracking app has revealed that half of the variation between people is genetic...
Genetic differences may be part of why some people get severe infections - but likely won't explain much...
ACE is the cousin of ACE2, but they do opposite things. And drugs that inhibit ACE might help with COVID-19...
ACE2 is the entry gate for the coronavirus - but its day job involves blood pressure...