A cardiologist's view on the Apple Watch
The latest Apple Watch features a pretty amazing ECG feature which boasts the ability to detect abnormal rhythms. I put the science under...
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Rohin
Sep 9, 20181 min read
Steamed stats
A steamed hams meme, in this year, on this website, localised entirely within your kitchen? #Simpsons #Stats #Memes
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Rohin
Sep 2, 20181 min read
Why is diagnosing hard? Just send off every test - you'll get the answer!
Why are some patients hard to diagnose? Surely you can just run every test - doctors refuse to because they don't want to spend money,...
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Rohin
Aug 29, 20181 min read
Analysing social media's use in science
Sarah Hudson is a fellow UK cardiology trainee who took it upon herself to sift through 120,000 lines of Excel data to produce a really...
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Rohin
Aug 15, 20181 min read
Healing the Health Service: Raj to Rhondda
Today is India's Independence Day (as yesterday was Pakistan's). The revolutionary British National Health Service was created less than...
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Rohin
Aug 2, 20181 min read
Why do you never hear about heart cancer?
Why is cancer of the heart not a thing? Can people even get heart cancer? What makes the heart different to other organs? A few people...
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Rohin
Jul 26, 20181 min read
Humans grown in space
What if humans were born and raised in space? What would they look like, what health problems might they encounter? I take a scientific...
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Rohin
Jul 16, 20181 min read
I hope this goes chiral
An idle thought the other day led to a spontaneous thread on Twitter. It proved quite popular so when someone unrolled it using...
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Rohin
Jun 7, 20181 min read
Space Babies: Science stand-up comedy
I've been watching a lot of The Expanse on Netflix so I started wondering...could we grow babies in space? I'm a newcomer to the world of...
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Rohin
May 24, 20181 min read
Why are scrubs blue or green?
Ever wondered why hospital scrubs are the colours they are? The answer is actually a lot smarter than you think and involves...
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Rohin
May 15, 20181 min read
Real life X-men: The superhuman physiology of the Sherpa
Forget Xavier's School for the Gifted - marvel instead at the real life superheroes on the roof of the world. For years anecdotes...
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Rohin
Apr 27, 20181 min read
Why does getting into water make you want to pee?
Immersion diuresis is the name given to the phenomenon of getting into water and then wanting to take a tinkle. I thought it might be...
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Rohin
Mar 31, 20181 min read
Does coughing during a heart attack actually do anything?
You've seen that email or Facebook post - the one that tells you that a cardiologist IMPLORES you to start coughing if you have a heart...
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Rohin
Mar 2, 20182 min read
The pengest science
I got through to the London regional final of a science communication competition called FameLab. I didn't make the national final...
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Rohin
Feb 11, 20181 min read
My Biological Romance: The most unusual hearts in the animal kingdom
Video 3 is here just in time for Valentine's. Fed up of seeing the same old boring love hearts all over the place? Why not find out about...
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Rohin
Jan 14, 20181 min read
The weird hearts of cyclists and why they keep dying in their sleep
My 2nd YouTube video has gone up! The curious things athletes' hearts do is a huge topic in itself so this video takes a pharmacological...
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Dec 6, 20171 min read
Doctors as paid shills scandal EXPOSED
I have found DAMNING evidence of the global conspiracy that thought leaders like Jenny McCarthy, Donald J Trump and Gwyneth Paltrow have...
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Rohin
Dec 1, 20171 min read
Heart transplantation turns 50
On December 3rd 2017 fifty years will have passed since the very first human heart transplant. To mark the anniversary of the landmark...
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Rohin
Nov 2, 20171 min read
Guide to myocardial biopsy
I have been immensely lucky to work as part of the transplant team at Papworth Hospital. Under the guidance of one of my mentors in the...
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Rohin
Sep 28, 20172 min read
Chocotastic
I had a bit of fun with my latest visual abstract for BMJ Heart. It is on one of our most popular recent papers, one examining whether...
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