The United Kingdom has a rich history of pioneering figures, revolutionary treatments, global impact, forgotten heroes, evolving education, influential research, and celebrated innovators that have shaped modern medicine.

Junko Tabei ( 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was the first woman to climb Mount Everest.

A group of astronomers called The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) consortium have revealed the very first image of a black hole, using a network of eight telescopes from around the world. This particular black hole is at the center of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.  M87 is an elliptical […]

Samuel Plimsoll - English politician and social reformer.

Maybe the title of this should be boring people, as Ms Scott, an English teacher, has been struck off the teaching register in Scotland for two years after pupils and parents complained about her “boring” lessons. (She has been removed following a seven-day hearing in Edinburgh where it was reported that she had spent three […]

Dr Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who gave his name to the simple but dramatic procedure used to rescue people from choking, managed to save someone’s life using the technique himself for the first time since he invented it in 1974. (His technique, called the Heimlich manoeuvre, is used for dislodging food or objects caught in […]