Gum Disease Doubles Stroke Risk
A new study has found that people with gum disease are around twice as likely to have a stroke. Researchers have discovered when the gums...
Antibiotic Resistance – The Battle Gets Harder
The World Bank estimates that between 1.1% and 3.8% of global GDP could be lost due to antibiotic resistance, (known as antimicrobial resistance /AMR), if...
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...
Queen’s University Belfast Awarded Research Grant to Improve Bone Marrow Cancer Treatment
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have received the first scientific research grant from MDS UK to improve treatment for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), a type of...
Immunotherapy Backed as Standard First-line Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer
Immunotherapy pembrolizumab keeps some patients alive for three years or more Pembrolizumab either used alone or in combination with chemotherapy was more effective than a...
Digital Sepsis Monitoring System Helps Save Lives and Improves Care
The introduction of a digital alert system to monitor patients with sepsis has led to a reduction in deaths and hospital stays. Sepsis, also known...
National HIV Testing Week is Here!
The main purpose of HIV Testing Week is to encourage as many people as possible to test especially those that may be in at risk...
Can Thermal Imaging Detect Breast Cancer?
If Bal Gill had not chosen to visit the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions at Edinburgh’s Royal Mile earlier this year, there’s a good...
And Life Goes On
It is a while since I have written a blog. My disease has been stable for just over a year now and I have focused...
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...
