AJ SKJan 19, 20202 min readCan plants give medicine too?The field of medicine has witnessed changes and developments for decades. But there are some medicines that survived the test of time and...
AJ SKNov 29, 20192 min read Evolution in antibioticsIn recent times, medicine has led to an increase in average life expectancy which was only around 36 at the end of the 1800s. Improving...
AJ SKNov 10, 20192 min readAntibiotics are more unique than we realiseThe introduction of antibiotics into medicine revolutionised the way infectious diseases were treated. Between 1945 and 1972, average...
AJ SKAug 30, 20192 min read“Large” problems, “small” solutions-NanotechnologyThomas Webster, a chemical engineering professor at Northeastern University, was recently elected as an Overseas Fellow to the Royal...
AJ SKJul 30, 20192 min readThe Death of his Aunt led him to study to become a doctorDamilola Adetunla is a valedictorian at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and receives a full scholarship...
AJ SKJul 10, 20192 min readOpioid Addiction and Preventive MeasuresOpioid is a class of drug that includes the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally...
AJ SKJul 5, 20192 min readHow you can detect SCDAccording to an article in the journal Circulation in the US, on average, a competitive athlete dies every three days from SCD, often due...
AJ SKJul 2, 20192 min readFrom news business to health care clinic, she has done it all!Women have always been great examples of efficient multi-taskers. It’s surprising as to how they can pull this off every single day. They...
AJ SKJun 19, 20191 min readMedical Engineering: Tying Lives TogetherTying up blood vessels using the medical technology we have today is a highly tedious procedure, prone to error. It involves the surgeons...
AJ SKMar 29, 20192 min readRegrowth of some tumours after treatmentTumours (lumps) can be benign or cancerous (malignant). Benign means it is not cancer. Benign tumours are made up of cells that are quite...