Author: Hippocratic Post

A film to raise awareness of how to support a person having an epileptic seizure is receiving positive media attention for health charity Epilepsy Action, including coverage by BBC Breakfast. The campaign video has been devised and produced by Leeds-based video firm On the Ark, and relies on a simple shorthand: C-A-R-E (Comfort, Action, Reassure, Emergency), to provide advice on the […]

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Influenza pandemics cause a persistent increase in influenza mortality risk, lasting around two decades, according to new research analysing historical data from the 19th and 20th centuries. The latest study – which is led by researchers at the University of Glasgow, and including academics at Lancaster University – reveals new and important findings about the persistent health […]

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Midwifery goes high-tech.  It’s a far cry from Call the Midwife – University of Bradford students are using augmented reality and a high-tech mannequin to learn how to deliver babies. The department has just taken delivery of Lucina, an interactive birthing mannequin, which provides students with “as real as possible” an experience. Lucina has a […]

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The prospect of a cure for a type of epilepsy could be one step closer following breakthrough research on materials which may help new types of probes be safely implanted in the brain. Bioengineering researchers from the University of Glasgow have investigated new dissolvable coatings which could help safely guide flexible implants into brains to […]

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Kids still strapped in for second hand smoke as Direct Line Motor Insurance releases findings that eight in ten (83 per cent) drivers who smoke, admit to illegally lighting up with children in the car. • 83 per cent of drivers who smoke do so with children in the car, with nearly a quarter (24 […]

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