Interview with Leo van Bergen
Feb 07, 2019
Interview with Leo van Bergen, historian and military-medical expert, on the occasion of the centenary of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I.
Etiqueta: medicine
From the jungle to the operating theatre
Nov 15, 2018
The active ingredient of curare, a poison used by the Amazon tribes, became for years a vital drug in surgery and to treat illnesses that involved muscle pains and contractions.
Why do our eyes turn red?
Mar 12, 2018
There are numerous causes for eye redness, and many of them are not serious. Begoña Domenech Amigot, professor of the Department of Optics, Pharmacology, and Anatomy of the University of Alacant, explains.
Nurses in film
Mar 01, 2018
The way cinema has represented nurses has varied over time: from the clothing itself to the relationships with patients and other health personnel.
Pseudoscience and bad science in biomedicine
Dec 18, 2017
Pseudoscience (false science) and science based on faulty and biased studies (bad science) produce false or uncertain knowledge, with poor or no evidence.
Literature in medical teaching
Dec 02, 2017
Literature constitutes an important educational element that can improve the doctor-patient relationship because it facilitates better understanding of illnesses.
Vacation stories
Dec 02, 2017
Santiago Ramón y Cajal was also the author of some very important scientific and biographical work as well as his Vacation stories. Five science fiction tales, a collection of five short stories with an educational purpose.
Rita Levi-Montalcini: Jewish, woman and scientist
Apr 06, 2017
Rita Levi-Montalcini’s life can be summarised in a single sentence: more than one century of struggle. Levi-Montalcini lived a hundred-year life during which she had to overcome, one by one, many obstacles keeping her from fully realising her personal project. Many would have given up
The science of difference
Feb 09, 2017
Women remained invisible in health sciences until the late twentieth century because they were not included in the cohorts used in researched studies. Thanks to the work done by different groups of feminist researchers, we were able to visualise the need to change those paradigms.
Pigments to save lives
Jan 24, 2017
Recognising our reflection in a mirror is fundamental to everyone, although, rather than being something which is automatic from birth, it is something we learn as part of a process, just like many other things throughout our life. There are changes, injuries, accidents which might