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Breast cancer studies top global clinical trials for 2022
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Breast cancer remains the most studied disease according to recent global analysis of thousands of …

Treatments remain effective for Mpox says study
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Joint research by British and German institutions suggest that current drugs used to combat the glo…

Chemical sector welcomes REACH deadline consultation results
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Chemical sector businesses and organisations have overwhelmingly backed extension of transitional r…

Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…

Discovery Park unveils scheme to grow job opportunities 100% in a decade
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Discovery Park plans to double the number of jobs it provides to around 7,000 over the next decade.…

Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…

Start-up raises £0.5 million-plus towards hard tumour immunotherapy goal
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Start-up Neobe Therapeutics has raised £520K towards financing its endeavours to reduce barriers to…

Imaging breakthrough may provide ASD diagnosis biomarker
Added: 27 Nov 2022
Scientists at Yale University say they have identified a possible biomarker for autism spectrum dis…

Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…

Kent Uni lab aims to tackle footballer cardiac threat
Added: 20 Nov 2022
The University of Kent claims it has achieved a first for UK labs by directly imaging at photomicro…

Heriot-Watt joint initiative to market medical design
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Heriot-Watt University and Technology Scotland will work together to boost access to sustainable me…

Health data project appeals for 5 million UK volunteers
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Five million UK adults are being invited to participate in one of the largest and most ambitious he…

Database of 4 million race starts enables major study of Thoroughbred sudden death
Added: 31 Oct 2022
The first study ever made on a large scale of sudden death in Thoroughbred race horses has suggeste…

Global initiative aims to identify disease-linked genome variations
Added: 31 Oct 2022
A newly formed international collaborative science project created with the aim of identifying vari…

Global project to measure carbon footprint of clinical trials
Added: 16 Oct 2022
A new international initiative is developing a methodology to assess the respective environmental i…

Online games and brain stimulation offers hope for combating working memory decline
Added: 16 Oct 2022
Tailored online games combined with a form of brain stimulation appear to show significant results …

Professional rugby players may have greater neurodegenerative disease risk, suggests research
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Former international rugby players included in a recent health study showed risks of neurodegenerat…

Ukraine conflict leaves a hole in clinical trials enrolment in region
Added: 9 Oct 2022
Clinical trials in Ukraine and Russia have plunged by around 50% during 2022, according to the late…

Smart hearing system reads lips of masked speakers
Added: 26 Sep 2022
A hearing aid system under development employs radio frequency sensing paired with artificial intel…

Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…