Taking blood from, or giving a medication into, a vein is a skill. It is something you need to be trained in and then practise hundreds of times to become really proficient. Crucially, it is never something that you have a go at and simply hope for the best. A medical professional prepares to administer phenobarbitone intravenously to a patient's arm. Unbelievably, the man attempting to administer phenobarbitone intravenously to Christa Pike was not in any sense a skilled phl

Alzheimer's Disease is cruel and unrelenting. It quickly destroys a person's life, stripping them of their personhood and character. In a lifetime, fortunately, it usually strikes later, although it does not always spare the young either. What makes it even more horrible, if such were possible, is that, in our present state of knowledge, there are no really useful treatments. So when some glimmer of hope eventually does come along, it is naturally of some considerable interes