“We tried to calm him in every possible way, but he cried and shouted all night”, desperately declared the Coopers about their three-year-old suffering from severe atopic dermatitis. Stories like this are more common than you think in paediatric and dermatologic wards.
Doctors often remind us how important it is to complete prescribed antibiotic treatments. But how many of us ever consider that not following these instructions may mean that, in the future, surgeries will become impossible?
Ada, a curious seven-year-old, looks outside the window. It is a relatively humid day in Mansa, a city in northern Zambia, but it appears as though it isn’t going to rain for a couple of hours. Ignorant of the threat lurking around her, Ada happily leaves her house excited to play. Just as she reaches her friends, she suddenly slap
We all know the discomfort of having a wound after a fall: the throbbing pain when our skin is first injured, the care we must take to keep it covered and disinfected, the itchiness while it heals. But wounds can form for reasons other than accidental injury and remain open for much longer than the typical couple of weeks
You may not realise it, but many of the medicines sold in pharmacies are either directly sourced from nature or have an underlying operating principle drawn from a natural process. Widely used pain relievers paracetamol and aspirin? Originally derived from coal tar and willow bark, respectively.
While the Polish man battled for his life, something intriguing was happening in a lab 800 km away at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Jean Rommelaere and his team were engrossed in a particular experiment.