Jessica Madge's Blog

Medical authorities in England are reporting a sharp increase in scarlet fever. This disease, which tends to affect children rather than ad...

In my previous post, written while in the gloomy grip of a viral illness I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of legions of lymphocytes and a...

It’s been years since I suffered from a “flu like illness”, years since I’ve had a cold at all in fact. But this week my luck has run out a...

Winter vomiting (noro) virus is usually a brief, illness that lasts for a few days. For the vulnerable though diarhoea and vomiting can be ...

It’s reported in the press that a health care worker, recently diagnosed with Ebola, is being offered plasma treatment in a London hospital...

This week scientists at Yale University have announced one of those game-changing achievements that could change the future of medicine. An...

The immune system is a teeming mass of interacting cells and complex organic chemicals that enable our bodies to deal with microbes. Immuno...