Out and about
Features
Ever wondered how some of the latest medical technologies evolved, or where we’d be without them?
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 02, 2009
The human machine
Features
As people we’re all subject to wear and tear. But who do you turn to when things go wrong? Welcome to the world of medical engineering.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 02, 2009
Something in the air
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We can’t see it, but it’s all around us. Air is vital to us… but it can sometimes carry infection and disease too. Now, with concerns over issues like swine flu mounting, there’s never been a better time for a good idea to help make clean air.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 02, 2009
Profile – Dr Michael Chappell
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We know what you’re thinking.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 02, 2009
Everything you wanted to know about…medical technology
Features
From scanning technology to artificial skin, medical technology is taking us in directions people couldn’t have dreamed of before.
Source: scenta
Date Published: September 02, 2009
Psychotherapy must be subject to statutory regulation
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Darian Leader says "all therapy organisations had stringent codes of ethics and complaints procedures" (Talking therapy, 9 April). So stringent are these codes that some therapists found to have had sexual contact with their clients have been asked to write essays, or been left on the register, or not been investigated at all. One therapist who sexually exploited a woman suffering serious life traumas was sacked by a GP surgery, but his professional association would not investigate and he continued to work in private practice. Some years later his former client found out he was counselling children for a primary care trust. As this woman says: "It should not be left to me to police this man."
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 17, 2009
Out of the frying pan, into the fryer
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It's funny, isn't it? These days you can get foodies to admit to crunching ortolans under a tea-towel, whipping up ice cream with liquid nitrogen, eating raw fish and game hung so long even the botulism has left for a less toxic environment, yet mention deep-fat frying and they quail in terror. "It's so dangerous".
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 16, 2009
The diagnosis? Fir on the lung
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The annals of medical anomalies bulge with stories from far-flung places where the idea of a reliable source is a chap sitting on a gate in a goatskin fleece who waves to passersby, even if there are none. And so to the Urals, where medics are reported to have removed a tiny fir tree from a man's lung, after he complained of chest pains. Before doctors opened him up, they were convinced he had lung cancer. Now, they're convinced he inhaled a seed, which sprouted inside him.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 16, 2009
Who needs a gym membership? Now you can work out in the park
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Peckham Rye in south London has just become home to the country's latest outdoor gym. The equipment in the park is green and shiny and huge. So they're a vast improvement on the wooden parallel bars that have been a feature of the park since for ever and made you look like you're exercising in a Carry On film.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 16, 2009
How the French shrugged off their malaise - and the British gallantly picked it up for them
Features
So here I am in France, reading about how unhappy, anxious, fearful, depressed, uneasy and stressed the British have become. A Mental Health Foundation study shows that the nation suffers all those ailments, far more than it used to. That's hardly surprising. Predictably, the financial crisis gets much of the blame, with fear of crime also putting in a strong performance.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: April 15, 2009
