Meningococcal meningitis is a bacterial infection of the slender lining that envelops the spinal cord and the brain. Even if…
When the Zaragoza Clinic’s electron accelerator malfunctioned and was repaired in early December 1990, it was fortunate that the machine’s…
In scientific terms Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) are Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). Put simply this…
Nothing goes to waste where people are living on the breadline, and few opportunities to make a little extra money…
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the AIDS epidemic began. The first death assumed to be caused by Acquired…
It started with the death of eight-year-old Jaime Garcia in his mother’s arms on the way to hospital. When doctors…
Described as ‘the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS’, the tainted ‘Hemofil’ blood product that was used…
After a series of disastrous harvests in the late 1960s, Saddam Hussein applied for an aid shipment of 90,000 tons…
Images of the effects of Thalidomide are firmly etched into the public consciousness. What was originally seen as a safe…
Poliomyelitis is a peculiarly nasty, highly contagious disease of the central nervous system that all too often leaves its victims…