Boost to Health and Wellbeing Support of Students and Staff
The University of Greenwich is working with Goldman Sachs and the mental health charity Mind to boost the health and wellbeing support it provides to...
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Charity Calls for Specific Policy Target for Lowest Survival Rate Cancers
A newly published study (Lancet Oncology) reveals that cancer patients in the UK still face worse survival rates than other comparable high-income countries. Pancreatic Cancer...
Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Gene Impairs Function of Brain Immune Cells
A study carried out with a new human stem cell-derived model reveals that the most prevalent genetic risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), apolipoprotein E4...
Protein tangles linked with Dementia
Scientists have visualised for the first time protein tangles associated with dementia in the brains of patients who have suffered a single head injury. This...
Active Children Perform Better at Primary School
Keele academics have lent their expertise to a pilot project designed to improve local children’s health and wellbeing. Councillor Dr Janine Bridges, from Stoke-on-Trent City...
Cancer and Medicare – How Are You Covered?
Cancer is most prevalent in senior age groups. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were nearly 265,000 new cancer cases...
Researchers Develop Early Detection Test for Ovarian Cancer
Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have developed a test that may be able to detect ovarian cancer up to two years earlier than current approaches....
The Emotional Journey of a Digital Detox While Travelling
New research reveals the emotional journey that tourists go on when they disconnect from technology and social media while travelling. The study, by the University...
WHO Mental Health Guidelines Could Better capture ‘Lived Experience’
Mental health patients want mental health diagnostic descriptions to better reflect what it feels like to live with their conditions in the World Health Organisation’s...
Children from Deprived Areas Six Times More Exposed to Tobacco Retail
Children from the most income deprived areas experienced similar exposure to tobacco retailing in one day as children from the least deprived areas experienced in...
