Why Are We So Bad at Telling Researchers How Much We Really Drink?
There’s none so blind as those who will not see. The old saying seems to be true when it comes to fessing up to how much we’ve been drinking. Deliberately or otherwise, we’re often unable to remember what and how much we drink. To gauge drinking levels, researchers can use the “beverage-specific quantity–frequency method”. An…
Sugar Molecules May Be the Key to Safer Chemo
The ability to aim chemotherapy drugs at cancer cells – and just cancer cells – has been a goal for medical researchers for a long time. So is the recent discovery of a malaria protein that appears to target the tumour and not the patient’s normal cells a significant step forward in the arms race…
India Is Training ‘Quacks’ To Do Real Medicine. Here’s Why
Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West Bengal, India. He has no degree in medicine. Bandopadhyay was trained in the rudiments of clinical medicine by a homeopath who also happened to practise modern medicine on the side. Bandopadhyay charges…
