health

What’s the Price of Changing a Life? Orkambi, Medicine and the NHS

For Cystic Fibrosis patients Orkambi offers huge hopes of an improved quality of life. Annalise Murray looks into tricky NHS negotiations, and why they delayed access to the new precision medicine.

How to Keep your Fitness New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of the year again. January. That bleak and never-ending month where the temperature barely scrapes above the 2-degree Celsius mark, and everybody is seemingly miserable and skint. It is also the month where everybody guiltily resolves to become healthier and fitter following the indulgence and carefree festivities of the Christmas season. For […]

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