Interviews about Medicine

Does a caesarean birth make you more likely to develop an allergy later on?

What goes on inside the body to cause an allergic response?

What is day-to-day life like for people with debilitating allergies?

Your body's chemical secretions hold the key as to whether a mosquito prefers to bite you

Vapes confiscated from school pupils contained high levels of lead, nickel and chromium

How does 8 time world memory champion remember things?

How people with a certain brain condition are unable to build mental maps of familiar places or buildings

A Cambridge study has devised a test to find those with exceptional memory

What is memory, and where are memories stored?

Why Japan has decided to relax COVID restrictions, including those around travel

Half of the test subjects did not see their tumours return

A new app aims to help healthcare practitioners assess health conditions at birth

What measures can be put in place to protect sports players from concussions?

The symptoms of a concussion can remain for as long half a year after the incident

What goes on in the brain during a concussion?

Former rugby union player talks about his dementia diagnosis

A gene has been identified in sperm propduction which, when altered, makes sperm ineffective

'The Big Catch Up' is hoping to offset the immunisations that weren't given during the COVID pandemic

Food dubbed 'ultra-processed' has links to diseases such as obesity, dementia and cancer.

But are they going to ensure keeping weight off long term...

Family, friends or local groups can all play a part...

Changes to our metabolism can mean that dieting ultimately results in overshooting your original weight...

Each year, poor diet accounts for millions of new type 2 diabetes cases around the world

Changes in our gut might be responsible for the loss of bone density whilst in space