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What is your hair hiding?

September 27, 2010
Since becoming widely accepted throughout courts in the UK - testing of hair for the presence of drugs and alcohol is finding more and more applications

Battle of the bacteria

September 27, 2010
Back-stabbing bacteria whose selfish nature makes them act according to their own interests and avoid cooperation with other infection-causing bacteria can actually reduce the severity of infection say scientists in...

Dreams are made of this

September 26, 2010
Sleep is such a natural part of life and yet it remains largely unexplained by science. Leila Sattary finds out what dreams are made of and why sleep is so...

Superbug hits UK hospitals

September 24, 2010
A new superbug associated with cosmetic surgery abroad has been found in UK hospitals, and is resistant to one of the most powerful groups of antibiotics.

Imaging the night sky

September 23, 2010
A series of cameras are to continuously scan the night skies over the UK to look for incoming meteors and provide details on the best conditions for night time surveys.

Tackling the lurking beast

September 22, 2010
Testing for HbA1c to monitor glycaemic control is only set to increase as the incidence of diabetes in the UK continues to grow. We asked Ian Parfrement, Director of Hospital...

Company receives renewable energy award

September 22, 2010
A company which develops renewable Combined Heat and Power technology has been named Renewable Energy Innovator 2010 at the British Renewable Energy Awards.

Sterilisation updated

September 21, 2010
Despite a reticence to comply by some manufacturers, regulatory changes surrounding the sterilisation of health care products is leading to improved quality and reduced costs

Multiple blood cultures – can you afford not to?

September 20, 2010
Contaminated blood cultures can increase hospital costs by 47% - here we learn of the benefits and cost savings of taking multiple sets of blood cultures, and the importance of...

Simple differentiation

September 20, 2010
The scaffold on which stem cells differentiate plays a role determining which type of cell they become leading researchers to create a novel type of matrix to grow them on.

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