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Nearly one in seven UK workers experienced some form of workplace abuse over the last year, with women and LGBTQ+ workers at the most risk, finds a report led by a UCL researcher. The report, How Common is Workplace Abuse? is part of the Skills and Employment Survey 2024 , an analysis of working habits in the UK.

Since the end of the 20th century, air pollution from most U.S. sources has decreased, but emissions from wildland fires have risen.

Full control over mid-infrared wavelengths enables advancements in applications ranging from chip security to personalized health monitoring.

Could tiny 'molecular robots' made from RNA provide personalised cancer treatments - without the harmful side effects? When Associate Professor Tamás Fischer speaks about his medical research project and its potential to change lives, he begins on a personal note.

According to the Alzheimer's Society of Canada, one in four Canadians over the age of 85 is living with dementia - and Alzheimer's disease (AD) accounts for more than 60 per cent of those cases.

We're launching the UK's first early-warning public health surveillance system based on detecting traces of chemicals and biological markers found in water.

The Cambridge report argues that play should be a recognised component of children's healthcare in the Government's forthcoming 10-year plan for the NHS.

A new study from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has found there's no substantial link between popular conformation in rabbits, including floppy ears or flat faces, and an increased risk of dental problems.

The future of cancer diagnosis could become faster and more precise thanks to a research team led by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), which uses invisible light and artificial intelligence to detect diseases before symptoms appear.

Greater understanding of how depression progresses thanks to brain scan. Depression affects millions of people worldwide, but much is still unknown about this illness and treatments don't always work.

The University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine's (UCVM) Dr. Susan Kutz D.V.M is leading an expert interdisciplinary team set to revolutionize arctic wildlife conservation with a transformative grant of 2.5 million dollars from the Weston Family Foundation.

International team argues for helping children to develop skills to participate in digital society while protecting from harm Banning smartphone and social media access alone fails to equip children for healthy use of technology, argues a group of international experts.

To celebrate 20 years of the Breast Centre of Southern Switzerland , Prof. Maria Luisa Gasparri, Professor at the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), gy

New research from zoologists at Trinity College Dublin has pinpointed park entrances and playgrounds in Dublin as hotspots for roundworm eggs, with subsequent analysis strongly implying they have come from dog faeces. While unsavoury, the findings do pinpoint these locations for targeted interventions to reduce the risk of human infection.

Military personnel, police officers, firefighters and healthcare workers may experience moral injury: psychological and social problems caused by moral dilemmas.

Up to now, emissions caused by tyre, brake and road surface wear, which are hazardous to health, have not been adequately captured.

University of Glasgow academics have joined leading public health experts in warning of likely consequence of cuts to social security in the Spring Statement to be made by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, on 26 March.

The University of Oxford in partnership with the Coler Lab at Seattle Children's Research Institute (SCRI) has begun a new clinical trial called TB045, which aims to test tuberculosis (TB) vaccine sa

The University of Oxford in partnership with the Coler Lab at Seattle Children's Research Institute (SCRI) has begun a new clinical trial called TB045, which aims to test tuberculosis (TB) vaccine sa

The microorganisms in our intestines play an important role in many bodily processes, from digestion to emotions, and are a key factor in our overall health.

Researchers at Imperial are to develop technologies to enable people living with dementia to live independently for longer.

Tucked in the back of the Microbiome and Probiotic Research Lab at St. Joseph's hospital sits the fly room - a small space that houses even smaller insects whose microscopic innards could hold clues into the link between antibiotic use and the formation of kidney stones.

A research consortium involving the TU Ilmenau has just launched a project to enable the early detection of lung cancer. With the help of a mobile respiratory diagnostic device, the human exhaled gas is to be analyzed with the aid of AI in order to detect signs of lung cancer earlier and more gently than before.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have secured industry sponsorship to accelerate the pre-clinical development of a novel precision therapy which may one day offer a new treatment option for patients living with cancers such as Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) and Neuroblastoma.

GPs who conduct their surgeries in the flesh are more likely to have satisfied patients according to a new study by University of Manchester researchers.

A technique to improve the precision of prostate cancer surgery means that almost twice as many men preserve their erectile function compared to those undergoing standard surgery, according to results from a clinical trial led by researchers from UCL and UCLH.

Nathalie Labrecque and her colleagues have discovered that NOTCH signaling is essential for the differentiation of CD8+ T lymphocytes, optimizing their immune response to infections. Ten years of substantial work by Université de Montréal immunologist Nathalie Labrecque's team at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) and the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center have shed new light on the mechanisms governing an effective immune response to infections.

In an international study led by an UdeM nutritionist, healthy eating in midlife is found to be linked to overall healthy aging. Maintaining a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods, with low to moderate intake of animal-based foods and less of ultra-processed foods, is linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging, a new international study led by an Université de Montréal nutritionist suggests.

Bonn researchers develop a versatile toolbox for the characterization of IRESes in cells The research field of "cellular IRESes" lay dormant for decades, as there was no uniform standard of reliable

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for all vital processes. Using cryo-electron tomography, researchers at the University of Basel have now gained insight into the architecture of mitochondria at unprecedented resolution. They discovered that the proteins responsible for energy generation assemble into large "supercomplexes", which play a crucial role in providing the cell's energy.