medicine

Londonist reviews Whose Blood at The Old Operating Theatre, where bodies were in much demand in 1832, for many different reasons…

10 mg dance, 8mg theatre, 3.75 ml science: Side Effects is a performance exploring society’s relationship to medicine. Can it make us feel better about what we take to feel better?

Over 250 nursing staff excised by financial scalpel.

A court case against a homeopathic pharmacy in London, who reportedly promote sugar pills for malaria, has been dropped.

The ghost of Henry Wellcome revisits Willesden tonight.

Medicine and wellbeing in literature is up for discussion at the Wellcome Collection on Wednesday. Dr Richard Barnett, Dr Erin Sullivan and Dr Michael Neve – who was on the judging panel of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2010 – will chew the fat over …

It’s unlikely to knock the Angry Birds off their perch or out-sell the various Scrabble clones, but a simulated stethoscope for iPhone has certainly captured the pulse (admit it, you’d have used that pun, too). The mobile app was designed by UCL researcher and Wired …

They’ve probed the heart and inspected the bones. Now, the Wellcome Collection turn their magpie attentions to the body’s most visible component: the skin. With the usual mix of science, art and medicine, Skin charts the dissection, decoration, disease, decay and diverse dermatological details through …

Asking around, it’s quite staggering how few people can recall why Joseph Lister was famous. That guy out of Red Dwarf? Country singer? For some reason, the pioneer of antiseptic and sometime Londoner seems to be fading into obscurity among the populous, while fellow medical …

Amputation saw courtesy of Wellcome Library If there’s one space in London that makes us glad we’re living in the 21st century, it’s Wellcome Collection’s Medicine Man Gallery. Any length of time spent among the amputation saws and birthing implements on show has us breathing …