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Vision

The Vision category brings together forward-looking perspectives, emerging research and thought-provoking insights across health and wellbeing. It highlights breakthroughs, explores complex conditions and examines the wider social and psychological factors that influence health. From innovative treatments and new diagnostic tools to broader conversations about prevention and quality of life, this category looks beyond the immediate to consider where healthcare and wellbeing are heading.

Making surgery safer during the pandemic

Routine testing for COVID-19 can make surgery safer according to a study led by the University of Birmingham: Using nasal swab tests before surgery to...
Making surgery safer during the pandemic

Vary drug prices for different conditions

The NHS could improve patients’ access to new cancer treatments by paying different prices for drugs depending on the disease they are used to treat,...
Vary drug prices for different conditions

Looking through the door of meth labs

Looking through the door of meth labs: Methamphetamine ‘cooks’ in domestic labs are most likely to be male, Caucasian and about 30 years’ old, according...
Looking through the door of meth labs

Glaucoma: gene therapy regenerates optic nerve

Gene therapy research regenerates optic nerve, bringing hope for future glaucoma treatment: Researchers have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged optic nerve fibres in a...
Glaucoma: gene therapy regenerates optic nerve

Minor Head Injuries and Nose Bleeds

Children often have nose bleeds. They can be a result of warm weather or exercise, which dilate the small blood vessels in their nose, or...
Minor Head Injuries and Nose Bleeds