Does The Food Industry Listen To Me? Monday 8 May 2017, 7pm
Choosing, buying and eating foods is an everyday activity we take mostly for granted in the western world. Nevertheless, behind the fully stocked supermarket shelves is a sophisticated industry which may know you better than you know yourself. Dr John…
Dentistry Without Drills – Monday 17 April 2017, 7pm
Traditionally, treating tooth decay has involved injections in the mouth, drilling and filling – often unpleasant and difficult to cope with. However, treating decay by simply sealing it into teeth, without any injections or drilling, has been shown to work…
Breastfeeding – what has that got to do with science? Monday 13th March 2017, 7pm
Babies have been breastfed since the dawn of the human race, but since the early 20th Century artificial substitutes have been manufactured and advertised as ‘just as good’. The introduction of these milk substitutes has led to a huge decline…
Precision Medicine in Diabetes – Monday 13th February 2017, 7pm
Precision medicine allows doctors and researchers to predict which treatments will work for each patient. It aims to reduce the “one-size-fits-all” approach and treat patients based on their own characteristics such as their genes and family history, with an aim…
Why Do People Get Spots? Monday 9 January 2017, 7pm
The skin is the largest organ in the body and subject to no less than 3000 different disorders. Many are chronic and cause a great deal of suffering. Acne is the most common skin disease across the world and yet…
Apes vs Humans: Social Traditions – Monday 14th November 2016, 7pm
If you invited a chimpanzee or a monkey to a dinner party would he know how to behave? Probably not, but whilst greeting and welcoming guests, sharing food and solving problems are usually seen as social traditions unique to humans,…
Pimp Your Memory: Lessons From Psychology – Monday 10th October 2016, 7pm
How should you prepare for an upcoming exam or test? What can you do to maintain information in memory for a long time? Cognitive Psychology, an area of Psychology that focuses on how we learn, think, judge, perceive and remember,…
Stem Cells: Hope, Hype and Hustlers – Monday 12th September 2016, 7pm
In the last 10-15 years stem cells have been catapulted from a relatively obscure research topic to the international limelight. Hardly a week goes by without some news story about a “ground breaking discovery” or “exciting new therapy” involving stem…
How Much Sun is Bad For you? Monday 9th May 2016, 7pm
Light and radiation from our Sun is the basis of life on Earth and is essential for human health and wellbeing. However, too much ultra-violet radiation from the sun or manmade sources is also cancerous, driving a sharp rise in…
Do You Know What I Mean? Monday 18th April 2016, 7pm
Good communication can be easy to spot but hard to achieve, and poor communication is often cited as the reason for problems. From project failures and medical errors to divorce, the consequences of poor communication are all too immediate. But…