Surgery without scars
We learn to accept scars as a fact of life – an inevitable consequence of injury or surgery. Pretty much…
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Natalie Healey
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What’s in a drug name?
In February, researchers learned that the arthritis drug tocilizumab reduces the risk of death in the sickest Covid-19 patients. The…
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Human challenge trials: Covid-19 exit strategy or ethical nightmare?
Should you deliberately expose someone to a deadly disease if it could eventually save many lives? That sounds like an…
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Breast cancer research: addressing the premenopausal problem
Although the risk of breast cancer increases with age, the disease can affect young patients too. More than 16,000 American…
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A new hope for slowing disability in MS
63-year-old Jenny Ferguson, a former midwife from Norwich, has relied on a wheelchair for the last seven years. She was…
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Q&A: How do you fast-track a vaccine? UCL scientists weigh in
Pharmaceutical breakthroughs usually take many years, but the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us it doesn’t have to be this way.…
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Brewprint: using yeast to make plant-based drugs
It takes a lot of poppies to make serious painkillers. Morphine is classed as an essential medicine by the World…
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Unequal access: understanding cancer treatment disparity in Europe
Cancer may not recognise borders, but in Europe your odds of beating it depend on where you live. A woman…
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How Covid-19 has put clinical research’s diversity problem in the spotlight
Clopidogrel, an antiplatelet drug used to prevent heart attacks in high-risk patients, is one of the most prescribed medicines worldwide.…
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Hiring from home: pharma recruitment in the age of Covid-19
The last few months have been tough for workers and jobseekers. The number of employees in the UK on payroll…