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Writing for The Conversation, Dr Ria Kodosaki and Dr Amanda Heslegrave (both UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) analyse how differences in immune function and declining oestrogen levels may help explain why women are diagnosed with dementia more than men.

Shocking inequalities experienced by men with learning disabilities when diagnosed with prostate cancer have been highlighted in a study by University of Manchester and Christie NHS Foundation Trust researchers.

UCalgary concussion expert Kathryn Schneider is helping athletes heal faster by treating more than just the brain We cringe when we see big hits in a hockey game, players going headfirst into the boards, or a wipeout on the ski hill, limbs flailing, skis sliding down the hill without their owner.

Research suggests addressing prisoners' underlying health can play a role in reducing reoffending Poor coordination between health, justice department and service providers, with no single body in charge, continues to undermine health care for prisoners.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) has been newly commissioned by the Federal Office of Public Health as the National Reference Centre for Wastewater Monitoring.

A simple, digital intervention that includes mentally playing Tetris can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of being symptom-free after six months, new research has found. Healthcare workers across the world are recurrently exposed to traumatic events in the course of their work, impacting the mental and physical wellbeing of those who care for us when we are unwell Charlotte Summers Using 'mental rotation,' the treatment was also very effective at reducing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) more generally.

Scientists have identified a further twelve dog breeds as being at risk of Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome - a condition that can cause serious breathing problems - including the Pekingese,

Over-the-counter or prescription? Most of us have one or more medicinal products lying around at home.

Physics-informed AI artificial intelligence for early prediabetes risk predictionprevention Predicting prediabetes risk early and acting before the condition progresses is the goal of PRAESIIDIUM, a

An analysis by the Medical University of Vienna indicates that short-term increases in particulate matter and air pressure are associated with more diagnoses of pulmonary embolism, but not with greater clinical severity at the time of diagnosis.

A decade-long effort builds country's most comprehensive refugee-health dataset After more than a decade of work, researchers at the University of Calgary's O'Brien Institute for Public Health have built the largest and most detailed refugee-health dataset in Canada, creating new opportunities to improve care for some of the country's most vulnerable populations at a time of increasing global displacement and health-system strain.

Andrea Cavalli has been a researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) since 2012 and has served as the Director of the Computational Structural Biology Laboratory since 2016.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Gayatree MISHRA , a doctoral candidate from IISER Bhopal, joined ENS de Lyon through the BIOSANTEXC program and completed a three-month internship at the IGFL.

The bad news: weight bias exists in medicine. The good news: researchers have found promising interventions to support medical students to provide weight-inclusive care.

M illions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome , and a new study from the University of Waterloo explores why and how the fungal disease has devastated bat populations on this continent, wh ile it has had little effect on bats in Europe. White-nose Syndrome (WNS) is a fungal pathogen in bats caused by the psychrophilic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans.

In 2021, Pierre Stallforth, Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry and Palaeobiotechnology at the University of Jena, and his team from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biol

University of Warwick scientists has found that firmer, lower water content hydrogels limit bacterial growth, with implications for designing antibacterial coatings, infection models, and advanced medical materials. Hydrogels are soft, jelly-like materials that can absorb large amounts of water. They are widely used in medical technologies such as contact lenses and wound dressings, and are also a staple of laboratory research, where they are used to grow bacteria.

Trauma patients urgently requiring a breathing tube are more likely to survive if the tube is inserted before arriving at hospital compared to insertion afterwards, suggests a modelling study led by researchers at UCL and the Severn Major Trauma Network. The researchers found that prehospital emergency intubation of high-risk trauma patients could improve 30-day survival by 10.3%, and could save 170 lives each year in the UK.

Study shows intermittent fasting is effective for people with Crohn's Disease who want to lose weight UCalgary and UBCO researchers find improvements in symptoms and body composition when time-restri

Lung cancer patients who have never smoked make up a significant and growing share of global lung cancer cases, yet remain an understudied group, according to a new review written by UCL researchers.

New research from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) at Trinity College Dublin shows that falls represent a major and growing problem for the health system in Ireland.

Middle-aged women from more deprived backgrounds in Great Britain are significantly more likely to smoke and face greater challenges when trying to quit, according to a new study from researchers at UCL. The study, published in BMC Medicine and funded by Cancer Research UK, analysed women's smoking habits by age and socio-economic status and revealed that for women from less deprived backgrounds, smoking rates were highest in adolescence and early adulthood before declining through middle-age and later life.

AI stethoscope can help spot 'silent epidemic' of heart valve disease earlier than GPs, study suggests Artificial intelligence could help doctors detect serious heart valve disease years earlier, potentially saving thousands of lives, a new study suggests. Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed heart sounds from nearly 1,800 patients using an AI algorithm trained to recognise valve disease, a condition that often goes undiagnosed until it becomes life-threatening.

Cancer patients who suffer a heart attack are exposed to a particularly dangerous combination of risks: they have a higher risk of death, a higher risk of bleeding and a higher risk of other ischemic (such as heart attacks or strokes) events.

Restrictive policies may bring a small economic benefit to schools and are not linked to better student mental wellbeing Teachers in secondary schools in England are spending significant time policing students' smartphone use, as the average sized school could be committing more than 100 hours each week to manage it according to new research.

Following new research, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has introduced guidelines to help veterinarians safely check feeding tube placement in dogs and cats.

The in-depth study of autoimmune diseases and new technologies will help researchers identify innovative therapeutic perspectives.

Cell biologist Karin Busch has investigated changes in the 'power plants' of ageing heart muscle cells Prof. Karin Busch researches the bioenergetics of cells, i.e. the processes of energy conversion that are essential for life, at the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology.

Stopping long-acting inhalers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can lead to a sharp rise in flare-ups for around 3 months, a new study supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has revealed. This research by The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) scientists is the first of its kind to show people who stop using a prescribed treatment for COPD are at significantly higher risk of exacerbations than expected for their disease.

Professors Dolors Corella and José Vicente Sorlí , from the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the University of Valencia , together with a research team made up of members of Spa

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