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My Experience in New York by Joan Bestard Escalas

The Science 

My stay in NY was due to the necessity of our laboratory to learn about one specific technique. Since the start, our research group had been focused on learning about lipid metabolism in colorectal cancer disease. Our human samples analysis found that lipid metabolism is different at the base of the colon crypts than at the luminal site of the crypts. It is well established that…

Volunteering in Neurosurgery: Experience in Tanzania with an NGO from Jonathan McFarland

This painting was painted by Pablo Picasso when he was just fifteen years old.

I have always thought about its similarity with Luke Fildes, The Doctor, which was painted a few years previously but Picasso’s painting was probably more influenced by the Sevillian painter, Luis Jimenez Aranda. It is interesting to note that Picasso used his father as the model for the doctor, while the sick woman…

    Around two Weeks after returning from Moscow and my naming as the new Head of the Academic Writing Office in Sechenov Medical University, I was off again, and this time my destination was Cluj Napoca in Transylvania, Rumania. Just as many believe that Spain is only flamenco singers and bullfighters, many believe that Transylvania isCount Dracula. However, I have found it to be a fascinating…

Today I wish to discuss a pair of words: Illness and disease. I think that they are interesting because very often they are considered to be synonymous, and especially by Spanish-speaking doctors, who only have one translation for both these words: Enfermedad.

The Merriam Webster dictionary states that illness is ” a condition of being unhealthy in your mind and condition”, and that it is ” a…

To the East

Can you imagine a beautiful and melancholic grey winter landscape, surrounded by snowy trees, and a cold so, so intense that you can feel it soaking your spine?

That was our welcome to the impressive Russia…

My name is Daniel Rodezno, 5th year resident of Urology at Son Espases University Hospital in Palma de Mallorca.

Me and my resident colleague, Jordi Guimera García were invited…

” Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys,

delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations…..

All these things we endure from the brain. ” Hippocrates – “On the Sacred Disease”

As mentioned we now have a NEW section – Short videos about interesting medical topics given by experts in their field. Today, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Dr Jaume Sauleda, who is a renowned Chest Physician working in Son Espases and expert in the field of Bronchoscopy, as well as being among other a Master Chess player and a tremendous supporte of the 2nd Best Football club in the…

The Importance of English in Medicine