Cutlery: do size, weight, shape and color matter?
Vanessa Harrar and Charles Spence from the University of Oxford found that the appearance of cutlery can affect perception of a food’s taste. Food tastes…Read more »
Vanessa Harrar and Charles Spence from the University of Oxford found that the appearance of cutlery can affect perception of a food’s taste. Food tastes…Read more »
禽流感A (H7N9) is a tricky version of bird flu which seems to be sweeping across China. At the end of April the WHO registered 126 cases and 24…Read more »
Young people all over the world face challenges, but in the developing world there are additional pressures. According to UNESCO 20% of young people in…Read more »
World Tuberculosis Day was on the 24th March and this year’s focus of the Stop TB Partnership, a collective force of 1000 partners in more than 100…Read more »
Rare diseases day February 28th 2013 aims to raise awareness of rare diseases and their impact on people’s lives. These diseases have a cost, not just to the…Read more »
Saturday 1st December is World AIDS Day. World Aids Day was the first global health awareness day held in 1988 to help commemorate those who have died of AIDS,…Read more »
October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month and on October 26th superheroes from the London offices of BioMed Central and Springer participated in the Wear it…Read more »
According to the Breast Cancer Campaign one in eight women in the UK will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetimes. This equates to 48,000 new…Read more »
A new policy was announced last week by the Department for International Development (DFID), pledging that all of the research it funds will be made freely…Read more »
July saw us sign up our tenth Foundation Member, the National Institute of Oncology in Rabat, Morocco – one of two public oncology centres in Morocco…Read more »