Letter from Your clinical psychologist
by Paul Micallef BA DClinPsych CPsychol(UK) Chartered Clinical Psychologist & Consultant/Advisor for Staff Training and Retraining
Update on Avian Influenza
by Tanya Melillo Fenech MD MSc Principle Medical Officer at Disease Surveillance Unit, Department of Public Health. Latest news on H5N1 virus There have been 187 deaths so far across the globe. The difference this year with an overall survival rate of 59.4 %…
“Doctor, Doctor – Where are thou?” Medics in Movies and Television – Part II
The Medical soap opera Up until the sixties most soap opera’s storylines focused on the experiences of families in their homes e.g. Coronation Street, their interaction and relationships between different people living in a particular place.
EDWARD BURNE-JONES a master symbolist
Francesco Carelli , University of Milan Tate Britain presents the first major Burne-Jones retrospective to be held in London for over 40 years. Renowned for otherworldly depictions of beauty inspired by myth, legend and the Bible, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a pioneer of the symbolist…
TULLIO CRALI – A FUTURIST LIFE
Francesco Carelli, University of Milan For Tullio Crali (1910-2000) Futurism was not just a school of painting but an attitude to life itself. His powerful imagery reflected the movement’s unrestrained enthusiasm for the modern world, embracing technology and the machine as important sources of creative…
Glutamine may decrease obesity-linked inflammation
Glutamine could help people with obesity reduce inflammation of fat tissue and reduce fat mass, according to a new study at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Oxford in the U.K.
High-fat diet proven to fuel prostate cancer progression by imitating a key cancer alteration
What molecular event happens for prostate cancer to progress faster and to be deadlier when patients eat a high-fat diet? This is the question Dr. David P. Labbé, a scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), and his colleagues recently…
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