By: Inae Kim (MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine, 2025) Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), also known as liver cancer, is often explained as the price of time: decades of cumulative liver injury eventually tipping into malignancy. That fits many high-income settings, where HCC commonly follows long-standing cirrhosis and is increasingly linked to metabolic disease.1-2 Yet in Continue reading

By: Samantha Foster (DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences, 2024) Let’s start by talking about the water system in your house. Large pipes supply water into your house; these then branch into smaller pipes to reach your appliances, like your shower or toilet. Once you have used the water, it travels into small drainage pipes that feed Continue reading

By: Greco Malijan One of the small miracles of formal hall is that you almost never sit next to anyone in your own exact field. You arrive expecting conversation about the unusually nice April weather, and three courses later you are forty minutes into a conversation about something you did not know existed at seven. This Continue reading