Category: Medicine

  • Visible Body

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    Students saw me working with the Visible Body beta software online in the anatomy revision session on Wednesday. After today’s anatomy exam (and with the last exam of the week coming tomorrow) you probably won’t care any more, but here’s the link: www.visiblebody.com It has been in a free to use, beta format up until…

  • Video games good for your eyes

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    Isn’t that the opposite of what your mother always said? A study published in Nature Neuroscience found that playing action video games improved contrast sensitivity. Players were able to better discern very small changes in shades of grey as a result of playing games “where they had to be constantly ready to react to unpredictable…

  • The Oath

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    I noticed that Welsh and English versions of “The Doctor’s Oath” had gone up in the School of Medicine’s foyer today.

  • Stem Cell Facials

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    “Stem cell facial”? That sounds rather like that South Park episode. (Yes, that one, with that infamous source of stem cells, but let’s not discuss it here). Would you rub stem cells into your face to reduce wrinkles? Skin care companies selling anti-ageing creams are always making scientific-sounding claims in their widespread tv adverts and…

  • Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd

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    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are working to reduce malaria deaths worldwide, among many other things. The Fox News website reports, “Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria. “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,” Gates said…

  • Kids

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    A recent study of the health costs for premature births recommends more research in this area would save money, as reported by the BBC. “Premature births cost the UK an extra £939m a year, say researchers at the Oxford Centre for Health Economics. “Their study calculated what the costs would be for all the preterm…

  • Play Medical School

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    Do you want to find out what it’s like at Medical School? Some of you are probably already there. Here’s an interactive flash game that has educational content in it to get you to recognise symptoms and diseases. To be honest, I didn’t have time to play through much of it but I thought it…

  • Medical students get iPod tutors

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    That title sounded familiar, so I clicked on the link on the BBC News website. “University students are being given iPods loaded with useful tutorials. “The University of Derby has given 35 devices – costing £99 each – to radiography students, to provide them with “different ways to learn”. They contain pre-loaded video lessons about…

  • Nutty

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    The BBC reports of warnings of “nut allergy ‘hysteria’”. “Measures to protect children with nut allergies are becoming increasingly absurd and hysterical, say experts. “A peanut on the floor of a US school bus recently led to evacuation and decontamination for fear it might have affected the 10-year-old passengers.” Did that really happen? That’s crazy.…

  • Student Gambia Visit

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    Eight students from the second year of the Swansea medicine course are off to the Gambia on Monday to visit colleagues in the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul, and to experience medicine in West Africa. Find out more about the Swansea-Gambia Link and follow the students’ blog and photos on the Swansea-Gambia Link website:…