Long COVID, the enduring toll of COVID-19 on public health
Seán Dunphy discusses the long term impact of COVID-19 on patients and public health. Image credit: mattthewafflecat via Pixabay SARS-CoV-2,...
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Are mRNA vaccines our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Seán Dunphy discusses recent developments in COVID-19 vaccines. Image credit: Alexander Koch via Pixabay Vaccine development is complex and often...
Back Off Chalmers: protect those accessing abortion services
Talking to the campaign Back Off Chalmers, Katie Pickup explores the impact of anti-choice protesters at abortion clinics and discusses...
Multiple sclerosis and stem cell transplants: benefits versus risks
A branching nerve cell, like those affected in MS. Image credit: SNSF Scientific Image Competition via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0....
Targeted cancer drugs can distinguish between healthy and diseased cells
Image credit: Gundula Vogel, Pixabay Drug treatment for many diseases often balances the need for high enough drug levels to...
Sex differences in immune responses to COVID-19
Image credit: Kruthika Sundaram There are a broad range of COVID-19 symptoms, which widely differ in severity between patients. Age...
Coronagenes: A study of the genes behind severe COVID-19
Image credit: Coronagenes, University of Edinburgh COVID-19 affects individuals in different ways. Some people are asymptomatic whereas others require intensive...
COVID-19, a disease of the blood vessels?
Image credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay. COVID-19 baffled doctors and scientists around the world with its strange symptoms and disproportionate mortality...
What can we learn from ye olde medicine?
Ellie Bennett explores how answers to the global problem of antimicrobial resistance, a decidedly modern phenomenon, may lie in the...
