Rev Dr Stephen Goundrey-Smith What does good biomedical innovation – the process of developing and marketing medical technologies – look like in our society? A brief look at the history of research-based pharmaceuticals and bioscience over the last fifty years suggests that, for good innovation, medical technologies must be safe, cost-effective to use – and, […]
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By Dr Ian Donald “He will be alright won’t he, doctor?” is the sort of cry I would hear from a daughter when her ageing father was admitted to hospital, desperate for confident reassurance. Somehow, our assumption of health, or our faith that the health service will always be able to put things right, helps
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By Abby Button Wilderness. Tracing the concept back to biblical roots, we begin at the Garden of Eden where humans walked in relationship with both God and nature. Later we see the idea of ‘wilderness’ as a place uninhabited by humans, where people went to experience God’s presence, to learn and prepare for spiritual tasks.
I wonder how you feel when a preacher says, ‘Of course, in the original Greek this word really means blah blah blah’. You might think, ‘Ooh that makes a lot more sense’ or, ‘How interesting!’ Or you might think, ‘How do I know that that’s right?’ (Or… you might just think, ‘There goes the vicar
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Here comes the British summer, the season when many bags are packed with shorts, hats, macs, suncream and… books. Topics are many and varied: possibly connected with the holiday destination or a favourite hobby, tales of adventure, detectives or even… chick lit. For those who have busy working lives a spell of ‘down time’ offers
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