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Towards shorter hospital stays: researchers explore options for outpatient stem cell therapy Multiple myeloma is a cancer in which plasma cells, which normally produce antibodies, multiply uncontrollably in the bone marrow.

Oxford University spinout Dark Blue Therapeutics has been acquired by global biotechnology company Amgen in a deal worth up to US$840 million, marking a major milestone for Oxford-led cancer research and innovation.

Dr Lucy van Dorp (UCL Genetics Institute), along with a colleague, explains in an article for The Conversation how illnesses contracted by toddlers at nursery can help strengthen their immune systems in the long term. There's no nice way to put it: small children are snotty. A research study  that tested children for multiple respiratory viruses every week for a year found that under-fives are carrying one or more viruses 50% of the time.

Two international studies, a clinical trial led by the University of Oxford and University of Utrecht, and a qualitative study led by the University of Oxford and University of Antwerp, report that point-of-care diagnostic testing, when used alone is unlikely to reduce antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in primary care.

The University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SII), a Cyrus Poonawalla Group company and the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, have signed an Intellectual Property license agreement to advance the development and manufacture of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine candidate.

A lack of vitamin B2 makes tumour cells more susceptible to a unique form of cell death. This was discovered by researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Centre at the University of Würzburg.

Leading personalised mRNA vaccine trials and planning for future near-patient bio-manufacturing facilities in Birmingham.

For more than a decade, Waterloo co-op students have brought curiosity, compassion and leading-edge skills to Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital.

A Simon Fraser University study is pushing back against the "easy narrative" that not getting vaccinated is entirely a personal decision.

People in the most socioeconomically deprived areas of the UK are more likely to die from head and neck cancer, more likely to be diagnosed at advanced stages, and more likely to wait longer for treatment than those in the most affluent areas, according to new analysis.

Co-ordinated, collaborative evidence-based care resulted in fewer kids getting serious complications Research conducted by University of Calgary scientists informed care when suddenly hundreds of children were sick from exposure to a severe strain of E. coli .

PsyMetRiC is designed to be simple and easy to use in clinical practice, and requires only simple, routinely-recorded information to make predictions.

Until now, the following has been true for metastatic pancreatic cancer: Once the tumour has spread, local treatment such as surgery is usually no longer an option.

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Around seven in ten (68%) young adults who are part of generation Z report binge drinking in the past year, with almost a third (29%) regularly consuming six or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting, according to new UCL research. For the study, researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies analysed data from nearly 10,000 people born across the UK in 2000-02 who are taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study.

Major grant aimed at discovering much-needed anti-parasitic drugs to protect cattle Taylor Charlebois, Veterinary Medicine Parasites weaken cattle, costing the beef industry hundreds of millions of dollars, an issue that's made worse by rising drug resistance.

A year after stopping taking weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, people regain on average 60% of their lost weight - but beyond this, their weight regain plateaus, with individuals managing to keep off 25% of the weight lost to treatment, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. Drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy act like brakes on our appetite.

Nightlife Young people - especially women - increasingly fear being drugged, and the phenomenon is more widespread and complex than previously assumed.

Researchers from the University of Twente, Deventer Hospital and Saxion University of Applied Sciences are working together on a smart solution to a growing problem in healthcare.

Just the Right Amount: Microbial Nutrients Drive Success and Failure of Antibiotics Antibiotics are medical marvels that have transformed once deadly bacterial infections into manageable conditions. But with a rise in antibiotic resistance that renders existing treatments ineffective, new agents are urgently needed.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Our planet is suffering from air pollution, including climate-relevant halogenated gases. Empa researcher Alina Begley ensures that these gases can be detected and measured - even when they are previously unknown or occur only in vanishingly small quantities. Their measurements serve as a long-term basis for regulation.

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

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.

Jai Prakash has been appointed as Professor of Advanced Bioengineering and Therapeutics at Radboudumc / Radboud University.

How Münster, as a Centre of Medicine, transfers knowledge faster to patient care / Guest contribution by Jan Rossaint Why does it often take so long for a discovery in the laboratory to turn into an improvement for patients?

System that can identify bacteria in less than 40 minutes could help physicians prescribe the appropriate antibiotics, amid ongoing urgency of antimicrobial resistance crisis McGill researchers have developed a diagnostic system capable of identifying bacteria -and determining which antibiotics can stop them - in just 36 minutes, a major advance in the global effort to curb antimicrobial resistance (AMR).