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Research into population screening and targeted surveillance for childhood cancer should be a key priority, according to leading cancer experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham. Each year in the UK 1,900 children are diagnosed with cancer and it’s the biggest cause of death by disease in children aged 0-14 years. One in 300 [...]
Parents seeking help in encouraging toddlers to be physically active may soon need to look no further than an inexpensive robotic buddy for their kids, a new study by Oregon State University suggests. The findings are important because movement plays a key role in the overall health of children, both in youth and later on [...]
Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have discovered that DNA sequence changes known to increase a person’s risk for diabetes are linked to how well pancreatic cells can handle two different kinds of molecular stress. In people with these DNA changes, the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas may be more likely to fail or die [...]
The secret to losing weight could all be down to a combination of 14 ‘skinny genes’, a new study has found. University of Essex researchers discovered they helped people drop twice as much weight when they ran for half an hour three times a week. The team - led by Dr Henry Chung, from the [...]
Waiting more than four hours in emergency care for treatment is linked to heightened risks of death and a longer hospital stay for hip fracture patients, a study suggests. The waiting time for more than one in three of these patients exceeded the four hour national standard, which now requires that 76 per cent of [...]
Muscle activation in people suffering from hip osteoarthritis might be a case of ‘mind over matter’, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has shown. Research undertaken by ECU post-doctoral research fellow Dr Myles Murphy investigated muscle function in people with hip osteoarthritis and found that these patients were unable to activate their muscles as [...]
After nearly doubling during the 20th century, the rate of increase in life expectancy has slowed considerably in the last three decades, according to a new study. Despite frequent breakthroughs in medicine and public health, life expectancy at birth in the world’s longest-living populations has increased only an average of six and a half years [...]
Common breast cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, may accelerate the biological ageing process in breast cancer survivors, a study suggests. The findings show that markers of cellular aging—such as DNA damage response, cellular senescence, and inflammatory pathways—significantly increased in all breast cancer survivors, regardless of the type of treatment received. This suggests that the [...]
UCL will lead a £17 million surgical imaging hub to improve cancer detection and take part in a £12 million collaboration to help solve age and disability-related mobility issues, in a major funding award from the UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The UCL Optical and Acoustic Imaging for Surgical and Interventional Sciences [...]
Wrist-worn voice recorders have been found to be a useful intervention in better understanding what happens when people lose their balance. A study has concluded that, among older adults, voice recorders are effective at capturing the circumstances and context in which they lost their balance and potentially fell, without relying on recall later. The study, [...]
