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Wellcome Image of the Month: Focus on stroke
It is the third largest cause of death in the UK after heart disease and cancer, causing more than 50 000 deaths every year and leaving thousands more with long-term physical and mental disability....
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Award winner
This is an award winning image – a 2012 Wellcome Image Award winner! Judging took place way back in January, but last night we could finally reveal the sixteen victorious images, and rather...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Mr Muscle
With the Olympics just around the corner, here’s a bit of biology essential for any gold medal-chasing athlete… This image is a scanning electron micrograph showing three interstitial cells of Cajal...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Golden oldie
Team GB are flying at London 2012. So far we’ve racked up gold medals in cycling, sailing, tennis, equestrianism, canoeing, rowing, shooting and athletics. But how did we do exactly 100 years ago at...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: World Rabies Day
What deadly disease results in symptoms including fever, hydrophobia, hallucinations and paralysis? Rabies, of course. A viral infection targeting the brain and nervous system, rabies affects over...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Osteoporosis
The 20th of October 2012 marked World Osteoporosis Day, which highlighted an often overlooked public health epidemic. Osteoporosis or ‘porous bones’ is a chronic condition affecting at least 1 in 3...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Men’s Health
Abnormal human sperm To coincide with ‘Movember’, this month’s focus is on men’s health. Behind the month-long moustache growing event is an important message: to raise awareness of men’s health...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Lung Tonic
It is that time of year again when coughs and colds are rife and almost everyone seems to be harbouring a sniffle of some sort. Part of Wellcome Library’s Ephemera Collection, this showcard advertised...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Busting Bugs
The 31st of January is the first of three National Bug Busting Days this year, followed by 15 June and 31 October. Bug Busting days aim to increase awareness, detection and treatment of head lice and...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Microneedles
On 23 February 1954, a group of children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were the first to receive Jonas Salk’s injected polio vaccine. Almost 59 years later, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Dandelion
For many, March represents the end of winter and the start of spring, though some controversy still exists over the exact date when the seasons change. In meteorology, spring begins on 1 March, whilst...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Malaria
World Malaria Day recognises global efforts being made in the fight against malaria. First established in 2007 by the World Health Assembly, it falls on 25 April every year. Malaria is an infectious...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Mental Health
This week (13 – 19 May 2013) is mental health awareness week which aims to raise awareness of and challenge people’s views surrounding mental health issues. Mental health is unfortunately still often...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Sickle Cell Disease
Wednesday 19 June 2013 marks the 5th annual World Sickle Cell Day, created to raise global awareness of sickle cell disease and its serious impact on health. Our image of the month shows two red blood...
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Zebrafish Embryo
Make us gasp with your images! We are always on the look out for striking images so if you are a research scientist, clinical photographer, or illustrator and have high quality imagery that relates to...
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