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...
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...
Biobank
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...
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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