Chris Bird
Freelance Journalist

Medical Laboratory World
There’s a story about John Snow and Cholera. It goes something like this. (more…)

Medical Laboratory World
Familiarity breeds contempt, so they say, and what could be more familiar than influenza? Yet beneath the surface of this common, usually minor ailment, is a virus that periodically erupts in a virulent and highly pathogenic form to cause deadly pandemics. (more…)

Medical Laboratory World
There are many reasons why Big Pharma by Jacky Law is relevant to pathologists and laboratory scientists. Perhaps the most important is that the companies producing diagnostic tests are often part of the same giant multinational companies referred to as ‘Big Pharma’. (more…)

Doctor (2006) and MLW (2007) 2007

Sonia Shah’s latest book, The Body Hunters – testing new drugs on the world’s poorest patients, investigates the growing trend for drug companies to conduct clinical trials in poor countries where patients often face a stark choice; be experimented on or die from lack of medicine. (more…)