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Alzheimer’s Society pledges £9 million for three dementia training centres

Added: 15 Sep 2024

The Alzheimer’s Society is investing in a multimillion pound project to tackle the talent drain of …

Young innovator turns to 3D to scale up stroke recovery tool

Added: 8 Sep 2024

Innovate UK’s 2023 Young Innovators award winner is using 3D printing to put his stroke recovery th…

Study suggests potential heatwave impact on epilepsy

Added: 8 Sep 2024

Heatwaves could be associated with an increase in abnormal brain activity among people with epileps…

Cell mapping project gives hope for new insights into endometriosis

Added: 1 Sep 2024

Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Oxford University’s Nuffield department of women’s …

AI to help GPs identify those at high risk of heart-related death

Added: 1 Sep 2024

An AI tool that pinpoints hidden heart risk in patients could be rolled out for GPs to use within t…

Heriot-Watt project wins £0.75 mill for alternative to painful cancer biopsies

Added: 26 Aug 2024

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University are developing a new method of identifying cancerous DNA whic…

Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine

Added: 11 Aug 2024

The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…

PacBio-Singapore project to create largest SE Asian genome dataset

Added: 11 Aug 2024

Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) Programme and genomic sequencing leader PacBio have e…

Scientists hijack brain parasite for new therapy delivery vehicle

Added: 3 Aug 2024

Harmful brain parasites could be effectively hijacked as vehicles for therapeutic treatment for neu…

Real time tracking could slash millions from bill for lost NHS lab samples

Added: 2 Aug 2024

Supermarket style product tracking piloted at a Leeds hospital could be used to cut the NHS’s mammo…

Smart spoon ‘restores’ dementia sufferers’ taste buds

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Loss of taste is one of the many symptoms of dementia and one that not only impacts sufferers’ qual…

Research reveals misbehaving genes in healthy humans 

Added: 29 Jul 2024

So-called ‘gene misbehaviour’ within the bodies of healthy human beings is far more widespread than…

Baby camels identified as key factor in animal to human MERS virus transmission 

Added: 29 Jul 2024

Young camels have been identified as a significant contributor in exposing humans to the potentiall…

Smart clothes are the new cutting edge of physio tech

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Smart phones and watches may have met their match from a surprising source when it comes to trackin…

Government urged to put clinical signup on NHS app

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Labour must include a clinical trials option for patients as part of its commitment to extend the s…

New chemosensor offers chance for battery free remote lactic testing

Added: 24 Jun 2024

Lactic acid testing for healthcare and in professional sports could be rendered cheaper and more ef…

Welcome for Euro IVD amendment

Added: 23 Jun 2024

EU action to avoid an impending compliance deadline for manufacturers causing a widespread shortage…

Machine learning offers means to raise accuracy of cancer analysis

Added: 11 Jun 2024

AI collaborators in Britain and the UK have developed a computer system that they say can spot canc…

New test could prevent major cause of sudden child deaths  

Added: 11 Jun 2024

A new test designed to measure blood proteins could detect the presence of a serious heart conditio…

Data shows higher heart failure death risk for ethnic minorities

Added: 3 Jun 2024

Analysis of nearly 17,000 patients’ data reveals ethnic minority patients with heart failure have a…