All articles by Natalie Healey

Surgery without scars

We learn to accept scars as a fact of life – an inevitable consequence of injury or surgery. Pretty much…
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…
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…
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…
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…

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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…