Three is no longer a crowd
We are even closer to seeing Britain become the first country in the world to allow a three person baby to be born through IVF, as draft rules were announced last week to regulate the process.
Issue 1573
21st Mar 2014
The Cancer Envy Campaign
Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate out of the common cancers; only three percent make it past five years, with the majority only making it to 4-6 months after diagnosis.
Dirty Stethoscopes
A study published this month has displayed the possibility that a doctor’s stethoscope could be a major source of bacterial transmission in clinical practice.
A call for doctors
The number of doctors travelling abroad on ‘humanitarian’ missions in order to provide help for the millions of people suffering in less developed countries is nanoscopic.
The Dying Earth
Maciej Matuszewski reviews Jack Vance’s highly influencial series set far in the future on a dying planet Earth
Six Nations Round Up
In the aftermath of one of the most poetic endings to the Six Nations yet, familiar foes Jonny Pratt and Tessa Davey give their verdict on the best, and worst, of the Six Nations
Oh, what’s wrong with the world today?
It used to be that the world was an absolutely awful place. People were starving left and right in all those countries to the South, the hole in the ozone layer was going to kill us all, there was no more oil left, grubby foreigners were going to steal all
Jesse feels the need for <del>meth</del> speed
Surely the overwhelming critical success of Breaking Bad could have set up Aaron Paul for a better cinematic role than this one. He has won two Primetime Emmys, and yet one of the first roles he manages to land is in a video game adaptation...
International Night Successes
International Night (I-Night): Beyond Barriers 2014 organised by the Overseas Societies Committee (OSC) took place last Thursday at the Great Hall.
Imperial lose at Chichester
Katherine Fok gives her account
IC 4s gain promotion in style
Saturday 15th March. A date all members of the 4th team had pencilled in their diary for a long time. The season decider awaited. A win would guarantee promotion. Anything else was unimaginable.
Hitotsubashi University Meeting
The Kendo Club went international recently as it played host to a score of students from Hitosubashi University, Tokyo. As the only University in Japan specialising entirely in the Social Sciences, and one of the top-ranking Japanese Universities, it may be helpful to think of it as the Japanese LSE