An Alien’s Take of the NHS
We can all agree that being a medical student is hard enough as it is. Now, imagine having to go through it all while adjusting to a new...
My experience of Intercalating in Anatomy at King’s College London
To Intercalate or Not to intercalate? That is the question that almost every medical student is confronted with at least once in their...
The Clock Gene
This September, Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their addition to the work begun in...
Why don’t you just eat normally?
We have come a long way in understanding the processes behind mental health disorders, but the stigma of them is ever-present. Whilst...
A war is happening beneath your nose, and the bacteria have been winning
"The world is worrying about the wrong type of apocalypse. While TV shows such as ‘The Walking Dead’ and dystopian movies have made us...
Economic Implications For One Rare Disease
In the fifth century B.C, Hippocrates described a terrible triad of iridocyclitis, genital and aphthous ulceration that swept through...
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for patients with diabetic foot: an observer’s perspective
As a part of my observership in a Mumbai based hospital, I got to witness the case of an elderly patient that suffered from dry gangrene...
Antibiotic resistance: a global menace
Should I finish my full course of antibiotics? That is the question on a lot of people’s minds after a new paper published in the British...
Your Mental Wellbeing And How To Improve It
So what is mental health wellbeing? If we look at the World Health Organisations definition of it, it is defined as ‘a state of...
