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Heart Disease, Screening, Vascular
Simple Blood Test Could Better Predict Kidney …
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 NHS laboratories is not yet …
Junior Doctors, NHS
New Medical Student Scheme Hopes To Tackle …
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 Aberdeen to tackle the GP …
Cancer, Men's Health
The Continued Evolution of Prostate Cancer Screening
New data will offer a unique insight into whether prostate MRI could be the test that we are looking for to preferentially detect those cancers which will benefit from treatment, …
Ageing, Lifestyle
Heatlhier for Longer
‘BGS Healthier for Longer’, a new report published by the British Geriatrics Society, examines how messages of prevention and healthy ageing apply to an older population group that may already …
Events
Diving on The Mary Rose
Professor Hugo Montgomery, a consultant in intensive care medicine at UCL and Director of UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance will be giving a lecture entitled ‘diving on the Mary Rose’ at …