While long-term survivors (5 years+) do not face the stressors of diagnosis and treatment, they continue to face the uncertainties that survivorship brings: recurrence, other cancers, late effects of treatment, and the potential of a shortened life expectancy. This research focuses on the cancer-related health worries of older adult, long-term cancer survivors, the factors that predict these wo...

The swordfish now ranks as one of the Mediterranean's most vulnerable species, the EU announced last month, proposing new measures to protect diminishing stocks. As well as continuing a swordfish fishing ban for two consecutive months each year — October and November this year — the EU wants to prevent the 'by-catch' of swordfish by vessels that are supposed to be fishing for other species. Thi...

There are two ways to write about a branch of science for an audience of non-scientists; one is to try and make the audience understand the basic principles of the subject, the other is to entertain them by a rapid succession of pieces of information. Steve Jones's latest book falls firmly into the second category. Given that the subject is the biology of the human male, there is of course no s...