Medicine. Technology. Art.

  Medicine in all its glory, no matter the tech or bad eggs, is still about restoring a man’s life, his body and mind, to its normal state. Slowly but surely, medical doctors in all corners of the world are beginning to accept that just beyond the other members of the team they work within the hospital including the nurses and laboratory scientists, they have to deal with public opinion and political opinion, better put, court for favourable political will. But this is not about the forced, sometimes laborious, romance between medicine and bureaucrats, with its many failings and ugly smoothening around the edges of everything. This is about the evolution that is sure to charge medicine as we know it and what falls off and what continues to stand. Biased, but I think many parts of medicine will stand the first few waves of the many intrusions (do not read as insults). A part stands as king amongst the favoured survivors - basic clinical sciences. Pharmacology, Immunology, histopatho...

The burden of cancer is beyond the number of people affected, it is in the plans and dreams it destroys and the beautiful souls it annihilates while darkening the hearts of those who are related to the victims. Like most chronic diseases, many scientists have made it their life-long commitment to improving the prognosis of these cancers. However, I think there is a caveat that is not judiciously utilised, as I would not want to state that it is rarely or never used. And that caveat is collaborative work amongst scientists and their studies. This collaborative work includes labs with their principal investigators (PIs) working together, beyond university or funding scopes, to answer specific questions that can bring humanity closer to finding a cure to this menace. But the biggest bane is the knowledge gap between all that has been done and the next questions that should be answered. PIs, together with their team members, usually have questions they seek to answer based on the volume of...