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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Pain and the power of activism
Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.
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Active pensioners, blooming gardens
To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?
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Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
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Copy of report of E.F. Bashford, Esq., M.D., General Superintendent of Research and Director of the Laboratory of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Delegate of His Majesty's Government to the Second International Conference on Cancer Research held at Paris from the 1st to the 5th October, 1910.
Bashford, E. F. (Ernest Francis), 1873-Date: 1911- Archives and manuscripts
Campaign applications to other Charitable Trusts
Date: May 1942-Aug 1954Reference: SA/CRC/L.4Part of: Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign- Videos
British Empire Cancer Campaign compilation.
Date: 1953-9- Film
British Empire Cancer Campaign compilation.
Date: 1953-9- Archives and manuscripts
British National Committee on Cancer (BNCC)
Date: 1954-1967Reference: SA/CRC/H.5-9Part of: Cancer Research Campaign, formerly British Empire Cancer Campaign