“I have never seen so many brains out of their heads before!” declares Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world-renowned neurosurgeon played by Steve Martin who has a love affair with a brain in a jar in the 1983 movie, The Man with Two Brains.
Thirty five years on, the prospect of...
Operations planned for Monday morning at hospitals in Manchester have been cancelled due to a mains leak affecting the water supply.
Cancer and any urgent operations will still go ahead, the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said.
The hospitals affected are the Royal Infirmary, the Royal Eye Hospital, Saint Mary's Hospital...
Made in Agerola conquers foreign niche markets
A story made of ancient family traditions and genuine flavours: since 1960 the Cheese Factory Ruocco produces with passion and commitment cheeses of excellent quality obtained using only carefully selected and guaranteed raw materials. Ambassador abroad of a cheese tradition of excellence, was...
The Guardian’s science correspondent Hannah Devlin has scooped a coveted prize in the Association of British Science Writers awards for her investigation into the vaginal mesh scandal.
Her report exposing NHS data on how thousands of women have undergone surgery to have vaginal mesh implants removed won in the category of best...
My cancer, an aggressive tumour on the salivary glands, was diagnosed in early 2015. I’d first noticed the lump the previous summer, but tests proved inconclusive. It took a deep-tissue biopsy in January to confirm that it was cancerous. Because of where it was – and because it had...
Experts are warning of a national drought that could have a devastating impact upon the nation’s barbecue plans.
The shortage, however, is of wine – not water. One of the UK’s leading winesellers has said the country’s supply of rosé – particularly from Provence – was under increasing pressure because...
The U.S. request marks yet another major setback for relations between the United States and Cuba, two countries that only recently renewed diplomatic relations after a half-century of hostility. It comes as the U.S. seeks to protect its own diplomats from unexplained attacks that have harmed at least 21 Americans in Havana with...
At first glance, Dirty Computer looks like business as usual for Janelle Monáe. Like its predecessor, 2013’s The Electric Lady, it’s a concept album with a title that posits its creator as a part-human, part-cyborg figure, and it comes accompanied by a film in which the heroine struggles against a...
Leprosy may have originated in Europe rather than Asia, according to the largest study to date on ancestral strains of the disease.
The study has revealed that more leprosy strains than expected were present in medieval Europe, prompting scientists to reconsider the origins and age of the devastating disease.
“For centuries...
Yingluck fled abroad last month fearing that the military government, set up after a coup in 2014, would seek a harsh sentence.
For more than a decade Thai politics have been dominated by a power struggle between Thailand’s traditional elite, including the army and affluent Bangkok-based upper classes, and the Shinawatra family, which...
