Before the First World War, female doctors in Britain had limited opportunities. Many medical schools wouldn’t even let women in, and those women who had qualified as doctors were not allowed to treat men. But as the battles began on the war front, e

Chris Young works as a children’s specialist for Golden Hare Books, an independent bookshop based in Edinburgh – this involves trying out all sorts of ways to get kids into reading. She also works as a part-time librarian, doing a similar job! She ha

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Imagine you’re a vet who has to perform surgery on a cat. Except it’s not a pet cat. It’s the biggest of the big cats – a Siberian tiger! So, a three-metre-long tiger is lying there, needing a fang removed. You’ve pumped enough drugs into it to send

Wowee, what an honour it is to be guest editor for this issue of Scoop magazine, which is all about my favourite subject in the world: medicine!! I live and breathe medicine. It incorporates everything from anatomy and the composition of poo (yup, I

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All you could hear was rain, rain, rain. Rain drumming on the slate roof, streaming down the kitchen window, saturating the meadows and the dark woods beyond. Jess waited until her dad had turned away to check his phone, then dropped her half-eaten s

Q WILL I BE GETTING A COVID VACCINE? WILL IT HURT? Caroline, age eight A Great question! Vaccines trick our immune system into producing antibodies, which help us fight the disease. Just over half of the population of the UK older than eighteen are

Tom Easton could have been a doctor, but it takes years of training and, in the end, he just didn’t have the patients. Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I’m a dog! Get off the couch. Doctor, Doctor, I have a terrible migraine! Now, now, I’m su

Marley Home-schooling in lockdown had its ups and downs. It was hard staying focused without my friends around but I found a way to get through it. I started making Zoom meetings with my friends so we could get our work done first, then we could play

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Thirty-five thousand years ago, in the forest and mammoth steppe of Central Europe – before humans domesticated animals, before written words and static settlements – an event occurred that advanced humans into the next phase of evolution: the greate