Drinking orange juice increases the risk of skin cancer! This is a new headline that emerged across newspapers last month (April 2021), based on a new epidemiological study. Although I have been studying human nutrition for nearly ten years, I am aware that there are many questions to be answered…
Hi, I’m Daria, a fourth year Immunology student from Italy. I am currently in the sixth month of my Placement year at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan, Italy. I am doing this experience to become familiar with working in a real lab and I really recommend it! Despite…
My Medical Humanities course was a journey to greater understanding, for the life-altering condition of cancer, music is the best way.
Why this topic?
Cancer affects everyone in some form, however, how can anyone truly understand if they have not experienced it themselves. In…
This semester, Film and Visual Culture (FVC) Honours students were given the chance to study an interdisciplinary course taught by Dr Silvia Casini. Cinema and Science: Beyond Science Fiction invited students to consider the relationship between science and cinema through nine weekly themes and four guest speakers. Themes ranged from…
The ability of medical scanners to produce images of our bodies in exquisite detail provides a powerful tool for the diagnosis and management of a wide variety of diseases. While we may marvel at the images, we rarely consider the evidence that is required before these scanners can be used…
