Hospitals in England cutting back on sugary drink/snack sales

10 Apr 2018 • 4 comments

More than half of NHS trusts have taken action to curb sales of sugary drinks and snacks on their premises in the fight against obesity, figures from NHS England reveal. NHS chief Simon Stevens...

Number of organ donors reaches record high

10 Apr 2018 • 13 comments

More than 1,500 people in the UK donated their organs after they died last year – the highest number ever recorded – figures from NHS Blood and Transplant show. In the financial year 2017/18 there...

Prostate cancer

Prime minister announces £75 million to fund prostate cancer research

10 Apr 2018

Prime minister Theresa May has announced £75 million to fund prostate cancer research to offer speedier treatment and help develop new, more effective treatments for the disease, which kills 10,000...

Cancer

Reclassifying cancers 'will improve treatment'

10 Apr 2018

Cancers should no longer be categorised by where they are first formed in the body, but instead by their genomic and molecular makeup, a new study concludes. In this way the researchers, writing in...

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New colon cancer drugs may arise from protein discovery

5 Apr 2018

Better treatments for colon cancer may be in sight, thanks to a new study, which reveals new ways in which a single protein could stop the disease in its tracks. Researchers found that a protein...

Multiple sclerosis

MS drug hope for secondary-progressive stage

23 Mar 2018 • 11 comments

A study of a new drug to treat advanced cases of multiple sclerosis suggests it may be possible to delay progression of the disease in the short term, although the effects were small. In a trial of...

Smokeless cigarettes not as harmless as claimed, study says

23 Mar 2018 • 2 comments

The new “heat not burn” smokeless cigarette devices are not as harmless as their manufacturer claims, according to a new study. iQOS – which stands for “I quit original smoking” – is made by...

Arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis meets precision medicine

23 Mar 2018

Scientists are bringing precision medicine to rheumatoid arthritis for the first time by using genetic profiling of joint tissue to see which drugs will work for which patients, reports a new...

Google Develops Artificial Intelligence to Assess Heart Health

8 Mar 2018

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but they’re also a window into heart health thanks to breakthrough health technology that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. In a...

Asthma

Asthma inhalers recalled

1 Mar 2018 • 2 comments

People with asthma who use Ventolin Accuhaler inhalers are being asked to check lot numbers on their devices after a product recall. A manufacturing problem caused a mark or tear in foil strips that...

New antibiotic family discovered in dirt

22 Feb 2018

US scientists have discovered a new family of antibiotics in soil samples. The natural compounds could be used to combat hard-to-treat infections, the team at Rockefeller University hopes. Tests show...

Depression

Anti-depressants: Major study finds they work

22 Feb 2018 • 6 comments

Scientists say they have settled one of medicine's biggest debates after a huge study found that anti-depressants work. The study, which analysed data from 522 trials involving 116,477 people, found...