A Vision to Bring Gender Equity & the World of Pharmacy Together
A UN sustainable goal includes gender equality, with the aim being to wipe out all discrimination and violence towards women – in every corner of...
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.
Planning for Exams While Avoiding Stress
As exam-season rolls around once again, the perennial problem of exam stress and its effect on the mental health of young people and those around...
Liberia – Growing Cohort of Epilepsy Patients Shows How Life-changing Treatment is Possible
Many of the patients that we see have serious problems from neglect and stigma, because people mistakenly believe that epilepsy is a contagious disease. This...
How Malaria Parasite Grows and Multiplies
Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding how the parasite that causes malaria is able to multiply at such an alarming rate, which could...
Arginine Depletion as a Starting Point for Potential Treatments
A group from the MedUni Vienna has identified a role for the endogenous amino acid arginine in the growth of osteoclasts in rheumatoid arthritis. Restricting...
Cancers Engaged in Evolutionary Arms Race with Immune System
'- Aggressive stomach and gullet cancers evolve escape routes under selective pressure from immune system - Findings underline importance of cancer evolution, and could help...
Healthy Ageing Psychology Research
Researchers from Northumbria University are asking adults aged 65 or over to spare some time to help with their latest research into reducing loneliness in...
Coping with Grief at Christmas
Two leading Priory experts in mental health and bereavement counselling offer advice on getting through Christmas Everyone experiences the pain of bereavement, and the struggle...
Blast Damaged Children – World Extreme Medicine
One in six children in the world live in a conflict zones and are seven times more likely to die from blast injuries than adults...
Ayahuasca Compound Changes Brainwaves to vivid “Waking Dream” State
Scientists have peered inside the brain to show how taking DMT affects human consciousness by significantly altering the brain's electrical activity. DMT (or dimethyltryptamine) is...
