medicine

Science is the most transformative of endeavours which has propelled humans forward for more than 200 years.  It heals, prolongs, preserves and kills. So, it is important that we get it as right as possible. Today there is a tendency to…

The history of aspirin, or acetyl salicylic acid, presents to us legendary outlines, referring to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. More recently, aspirin was synthesized for the first time by the French chemist Charles Frederic Von…

It was August 2002, and 17 year old Leona was curled on a trolley in A&E, rocking back and forth with pain, no energy left to cry anymore.  She had been admitted the night before with debilitating pain in her lower abdomen.  This was…

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was born in Buda in Hungary on the first of July 1818. Nowadays Buda and Pest form a single city (Budapest), but that unification wouldn’t happen for another 55 years. Ignaz was the child of an ethnically German…

2014 has really been a spectacular year for science, combined with increasing popularity and communication of science itself, it really seems that scientific discoveries are becoming household conversation. So I asked some of HeadStuff's…