Medical innovations

Medical Innovations: Eyewear

New inventions and discoveries continuously change the face of healthcare across the globe. Smallpox vaccination, penicillin, in vitro fertilisation, magnetic...

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Shit matters

Community led total sanitation may not sound like the most cutting edge medical science, but the potential impact of this initiative is huge.

Contact with faeces spreads human disease, and...

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Biobank

When it comes to doing epidemiological studies, numbers matter. We find out about the UK's biobank - a project to collect information and samples from 500,000 volunteers, which should help scientists...

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Gentamicin calculator

Gentamicin is an antibiotic that is widely used in hospitals, but calculating the correct dose to give to patients can cause problems for doctors.

One junior doctor, Imran Qureshi, used...

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Tournistrips

Tourniquets are used to make it easier to take blood samples from patients. If they are used on multiple patients there is a risk that they could transmit a potentially harmful infection.

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Twitter epidemics

During the swine flu pandemic, google showed that it was able to track the spread using the searches that it's users were making. In this video Dr Patty Kostkova shows her work using twitter - and...

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