Podcast: LKCMedicine, Ebola, and the dinosaurs’ demise

An update from LKCMedicine, an Ebola doctor's story and new research on how the dinosaurs were wiped out. The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service , with contributions from our roaming reporters from the Research group. the complete podcast - OR LISTEN TO INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS. News: NHS, stegosaurus, flu - New findings on how austerity has affected some NHS treatments, how much a stegosaurus weighed, and how often people catch flu. LKCMedicine: a success story - Professor Jenny Higham discusses how Imperial partnered with Nanyang Technological University to establish a new medical school in Singapore , which opened in August 2013. On the Ebola frontline - Dr Lucy Lamb, a clinical research fellow in the Department of Medicine , talks about her experience as an army doctor working in an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone. Scientists doubt fire killed dinosaurs - An asteroid impact may have wiped out the dinosaurs, but recent research suggests the impact didn't cause a global firestorm, as Dr Guillermo Rein ( Mechanical Engineering ) explains.