BBC Focus Magazine – New Species

Heyy everyone, I was looking through the BBC Focus and found some interesting things that have been discovered. I thought this was fascinating that it’s worth sharing! I really reccommend suscribing to the Focus Magazine as it comes with new updates on science and technology. I find reading about the latest research really interesting, and it just makes you wonder what else is out there in the world.

Discoveries of new species:

Psychedelic frogfish
(Histiophryne psychedelica)

- first though? Woah!









Attenborough’s Pitcher
(Nepenthes attenboroughii)






Green bomber
(Swima bombiviridis)


more info - bbc focus!

Medlink Blog

Heyy everyone! Just to let you know I also made a another blog on the medlink website!
http://blogs.medlink-uk.net/blogs/kavitarani/
I will be uploading on both sites, they will contain similar info! if there are any other medlinkers who have a blog on that site, i would love to follow :) thanks!

'Institutional Discrimination'

When I heard about this I thought it was pretty shocking. Doctors and Nurses in the NHS, not taking care of their paitents needs, have led to people with learning disabilities dying.

'Institutional Discrimination refers to the policies of the dominant race/ethnic/gender institutions and the behavior of the individuals who control these institutions and implement policies that are intended to a differential and / or harmful effect on minority race/ethnic/gender groups.'

'More than 70 disabled patients have died because of mistakes by hospital staff in the past decade, it was claimed.'

This report said that families of the paitents were being ignored and basic procedures were not carried out. This is shocking to me because arn't doctors and nurses meant to be trained to take care of all their paitents no matter what the circumstance? It shows that maybe education plays a fault in this. We look up to doctors today to take care of us, and we trust them more than anyone with our personal lives. It is rather shocking to see that doctors of all people are being looked down upon by the public.

“They confirm that too many parts of the health service still do not understand how to treat people with a learning disability and they are an appalling catalogue of neglect and indignity.''  - David Congdon, Mencap’s head of campaigns and policy

More info - The telegraph