Agonising wait for sarcoma cancer diagnoses
Patients facing agonising wait for sarcoma cancer diagnoses ‘unacceptable’, says Jess Philips Sarcoma UK, the national bone and soft tissue…
Infection/Disease
RA Awareness Week (RAAW) 2020
https://youtu.be/5wI5RVWzn9Q Its RA Awareness Week (RAAW) 2020. Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an incurable condition that lacks public visibility and…
Brain astrocytes show metabolic alterations in Parkinson’s disease
Brain astrocytes show metabolic alterations in Parkinson’s disease: A new study using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology links astrocyte…
Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week
This week marks Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week, a week dedicated to increasing the profile of a frequently misunderstood disease that…
New app to forecast life expectancy
Researchers from the University of East Anglia have developed a new app that shows the effect of various medical and…
Steroid found to improve survival of critically ill COVID-19 patients
A new international study published today has shown that treating critically ill patients with COVID-19 with the steroid hydrocortisone improves…
Venom from honeybees kills breast cancer cells
Venom from honeybees found to kill aggressive breast cancer cells – in new Australian research from the Harry Perkins Institute…
Winning against dengue in Indonesia
World Mosquito Program’s Wolbachia method dramatically reduces dengue incidence in randomised controlled trial in Indonesia The World Mosquito Program (WMP)…
Chronic hepatitis B: vaccine against grass pollen allergy potential treatment
Chronic hepatitis B infections represent a global health problem that could hitherto only be treated by chemotherapy. A team of…
New technique rapidly detects food poisoning
'It must have been something I ate': scientists develop new technique which could rapidly pinpoint sources of food poisoning Scientists…