Answers to Medicine Questions

From digestion to absorption to incorporation: how long does it take for food to become part of us?

Can we link historic pandemics back to different strains of coronavirus?

A trip down plague lane with Kyle Harper

Why crises cause humanitarian disasters and disease outbreaks...

The Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) have elected not to vaccinate 12 to 16 year olds...

With Japan so far away for some, how do time differences affect athletic performance...

Millions of work and school days have been lost as people are pinged by the UK Covid-19 app...

How individual instincts are taken into account when animals are reintroduced to the wild...

Athletes will have to perform to empty stadia and award their own medals...

Is opening up in the face of significant case numbers genius, or morally reprehensible?

Could playing the bagpipes help your lungs recover after you've had COVID?

Could the microbiome of the lungs be the difference between asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19?

What are ultra-processed foods, and what are they doing to us?

If they ate the same things, would their gut bugs be the same?

The trillions of organisms in the human body - how do they get there?

Lemon and lime juice - if it gets on your skin - can cause a nasty rash in the sun. Why?

Brain and bodyweight expert Giles Yeo says 'calories don't count'. Why?

How does full sugar compare to artificial sweeteners?

How can you make a normal TV look 3D?

What were the health impacts of the vastly different diets and lifestyles of aristocrats and peasants?

How would being in space affect the development of a foetus?

Paola asks: would 'woven' blood vessels be able to perform diffusion properly?