Dentistry: Access crisis piling pressure across NHS
The British Dental Association has said figures from the Labour Party on the nearly 70,000 patients who sought dental care in emergency departments last year...
WHO strategies against smoking currently insufficient
The Institute for Tobacco Studies (ITS) in Täby, Sweden released a topical paper urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to look at the successful Swedish...
New resources aim to bring light to people living with seasonal depression
A new range of creative educational resources is aiming to help people who suffer from low mood during the winter months to bring some light...
‘Transformative’ blood test to identify molecular signatures
‘Transformative’ blood test could spot cause of childhood fever from molecular signatures: A simple blood test which may be able to rapidly diagnose the cause...
Tobacco policy should be health driven and science backed
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) is urging global policymakers to support and adopt tobacco policies that are health driven and science backed. The statement comes...
‘major differences’ in hospitals’ responses during the pandemic
A Scotland-wide audit of hospital admissions recorded before, during and after the covid lockdowns has uncovered major differences in geriatric services' performance between all Scottish...
River sampling study shows impact of COVID-19 pandemic on London’s waterways
The most detailed study of a city’s waterways anywhere in the world has revealed how chemical pollutants in London’s rivers changed over the pandemic. In...
19,000 people in England could be living with undiagnosed young-onset dementia
Following the first ever publication of data confirming that 34,412 people in England have been diagnosed with young-onset dementia (dementia which first appears before the...
New insights into the development of sarcoidosis
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease in which immune cells form tissue nodules in various organs, which can drastically impair organ function. Now a MedUni Vienna...
Breakthrough in metastatic breast cancer research
Breakthrough in the fight against resistance in metastatic breast cancer research: A team of researchers at the Medical University of Vienna has discovered that dormant...
