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  • 9 Dec 2022
    Robert Friedland

    The new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is only modestly effective: What else can we do now?

    The media have been busy in discussion with the results of a large clinical trial that is a new monoclonal antibody therapy, designed to treat patients with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. On November 29th, the data was released from the clinical trial, developed by Eisai and Biogen. The outcomes show that the antibody, […]

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  • 26 Oct 2022
    Julia Nelki, Alison Summers, Chris Maloney

    A Practical Guide for Professionals

    Our new publication with CUP, ‘Seeking Asylum and Mental Health is a practical guide to working with people seeking asylum. It is aimed at professionals and services in a range of statutory and voluntary sector roles, including social care, public policy, and the law, as well as health.

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  • 18 Oct 2022
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    Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki, Alison Summers

    Why words matter

    Whilst writing the book ‘Seeking Asylum and Mental Health’, we had to think a lot about words. At the outset we decided to avoid the term ‘asylum seeker’.

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  • 12 Oct 2022
    Benjamin Gregg

    Should We Modify Future Persons — and Our Entire Species — Genetically?

    A PROMISE THAT IS AT ONCE A CHALLENGE Gene editing offers great promise to reduce human misery and facilitate human health: to combat virus infectious diseases; to correct monogenic disorders in pluripotent cells; to program cells for regenerative medicine and cancer immunotherapy; to prevent parents’ transmitting serious genetic diseases to offspring; to correct mutations in […]

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  • 10 Oct 2022
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    Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki, Alison Summers

    Out of the fire … into the frying pan…

    Often ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ are spoken of together, as if they are almost the same. But they aren’t. If you’re a ‘refugee’, it has been accepted that you can’t go back to the country that you fled, that you need safety, protection, and a chance to build a life somewhere else, at least for the time being.

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  • 4 Oct 2022
    Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker

    How to make sense of medical evidence?

    s vaccine hesitancy purely irrational? Are there good reasons for refusing to wear a face mask? These are some of the questions we address in our forthcoming book Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

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  • 13 Sep 2022
    Keith Frayn

    Understanding Human Metabolism: Fats, the butter on the bread of life

    Fat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it.

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  • 22 Aug 2022
    David M. Greer

    Q&A with David M. Greer, author of Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine

    What inspired you to write Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine? Great question. To be honest, I was surprised to find out that there wasn’t already a book on this subject, and that people weren’t talking about the importance of leadership in medicine.

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