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November 25, 2019

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...

November 25, 2019

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...

November 19, 2019

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...

November 18, 2019

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...

November 18, 2019

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...

November 18, 2019

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...

November 18, 2019

High-Fat Maternal Diet Can Cause Brain Damage in the Unborn Child

A study team at MedUni Vienna’s Center for Brain Research has found that high-fat maternal diets can cause life-long changes in the brain of the...

November 14, 2019

Bionic Pacemaker Slows Progression of Heart Failure

Using brain circuits made in silicon, scientists have alleviated symptoms of heart failure by reinstating the body’s natural heart rhythm. This study published in The...

November 12, 2019

Simple Blood Test Could Better Predict Kidney Disease & Cardiovascular Risk

Researchers have found a better way to test for kidney disease using a simple blood test that is affordable and although it is available in...

November 12, 2019

New Medical Student Scheme Hopes To Tackle GP Crisis

First Year medical students will get more experience of ‘real life’ healthcare situations than ever before as part of new measures by the University of...