In December 1921, Leonard Thompson was admitted to Toronto General Hospital so weak and emaciated that his father had to carry him inside. Thompson was barely a teenager, weighing all of 65 pounds, dying of diabetes. With so little to lose, he was an ideal candidate to be patient No. 1 for a trial of the pancreatic extract that would come to be called insulin.
The insulin did what today we know it can. “The boy became brighter, more active,
For a doctor, a CT scan be a lifesaving tool for spotting dangerous cancers.
But the same tools that let us look inside the human body can also let us peer into almost any object.
Experts from Lumafield have used industrial CT scans to peer deep inside some of the common objects we take for granted.
While some are things you see every day, through this new perspective they may not be so familiar.
So, how many of these everyday
Every day, millions of people are at work in the NHS and private sector with the responsibility of improving our health in some way.
While many of these jobs are known to us, there’s also a host of obscure roles that not only make a huge difference to patients’ lives, but are fascinating, too.
We asked experts working in very different areas of healthcare to reveal what they do on a daily basis.
From identifying victims of mass disasters by
IT was an unlikely TV hit – a travel show that followed veteran actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales on narrowboat holidays around the UK and Europe. But as those who watched will know, the real draw was the couple’s touching relationship – full of affection, occasional impatience and a gentle teasing humour.
Their stint on Great Canal Journeys lasted ten series, turning Tim and Pru, as they are best known, into bona fide national treasures. And what made it
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She’s best known for playing the glamorous and vivacious Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the hit TV sitcom Modern Family, but now, fans are seeing a completely different side to Sofia Vergara.
For her latest role, the 51-year-old actress transformed into the ‘Cocaine Godmother’ Griselda Blanco – a Colombian drug lord who created one of the most profitable cartels in history.
The six-part Netflix drama proves Sofia can tackle a serious and gritty part just as well as she can perform a
Thanks to social media, and the streams of travel images we’re fed daily, true ‘hidden-gem’ and ‘off-radar’ locations are more challenging to come by than they once were.
The world has become more accessible.
But those hankering after an adventure that’s a little bit out of the ordinary can still find it – if they know where to look.
One worthwhile source to tap is the United Nations World Travel Organisation (UNWTO) and its Best Tourism Villages of 2023 list,
„You’ve Got Mail“ ist 25 Jahre alt.
Der Film, der im Dezember 1998 in die Kinos kam, erzählt die Geschichte von Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) und Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), die eine Online-Romanze beginnen, nachdem sie sich in einem Chatroom für über 30-Jährige kennengelernt haben und nach dem Kontakt eine E-Mail-Korrespondenz führen aus. Sie wissen nicht, dass sie geschäftliche Konkurrenten sind, da Kathleen einen kleinen Buchladen besitzt und Joe Fox Books leitet, eine Kette großer Buchhandlungen, die gleich um die
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is holding elections. Civil war has displaced millions of the country’s citizens but garnered little attention internationally.
Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Marciane Ndamukunze walked all night to reach the displacement camp with her sleeping granddaughter slung
This story was originally published by Yale E360 and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The elephants are gone. The trees are logged out. The Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in central Cambodia is largely destroyed, after being handed over by the government to a politically well-connected local plantation company to grow rubber.
In West Africa, the Luxembourg-based plantations giant Socfin has been accused in recent weeks of deforestation and displacing Indigenous people around its rubber plantations in
