Cold climate adaptations promoted social evolution

New study shows how adaptations to living in a cold climate promoted social evolution.  For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered evidence that a species’ long-term adaptation to living in an extremely cold climate has led to the evolution of social behaviours including extended care by mothers, increased infant survival and the ability to live […]

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Cold climate adaptations promoted social evolution

New study shows how adaptations to living in a cold climate promoted social evolution.  For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered evidence that a species’ long-term adaptation to living in an extremely cold climate has led to the evolution of social behaviours including extended care by mothers, increased infant survival and the ability to live […]

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Scimitar syndrome: Heart surgeons perform life-changing surgery

Leeds Children’s Hospital heart surgeons have performed two scimitar syndrome repairs using an innovative surgical procedure, never-before performed in the UK. Scimitar Syndrome is a rare congenital condition in which a vein from the right lung is abnormally connected to the heart causing oxygenated blood from the lung to return to the wrong side of […]

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Scimitar syndrome: Heart surgeons perform life-changing surgery

Leeds Children’s Hospital heart surgeons have performed two scimitar syndrome repairs using an innovative surgical procedure, never-before performed in the UK. Scimitar Syndrome is a rare congenital condition in which a vein from the right lung is abnormally connected to the heart causing oxygenated blood from the lung to return to the wrong side of […]

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Centre for excellence hub to help world’s most tobacco dependent farmers

Ahead of World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) reinforced its commitment to help farmers in the world’s most tobacco dependent country, Malawi, explore and embrace sustainable agriculture alternatives to tobacco farming. With funding from a five-year FSFW grant, construction has begun for the Centre for Agricultural Transformation’s (CAT) physical […]

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Centre for excellence hub to help world’s most tobacco dependent farmers

Ahead of World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) reinforced its commitment to help farmers in the world’s most tobacco dependent country, Malawi, explore and embrace sustainable agriculture alternatives to tobacco farming. With funding from a five-year FSFW grant, construction has begun for the Centre for Agricultural Transformation’s (CAT) physical […]

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Accolades and birthdays for our directors

Accolades and birthdays for our directors: The month of May has been an eventful and exciting time for our founding directors at The Hippocratic Post with celebrations of achievement and birthday mentions. Thea Jourdan, our editorial director and co-founder of The Hippocratic Post, was recently honoured to receive The Master’s Medal for distinguished service to […]

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Accolades and birthdays for our directors

Accolades and birthdays for our directors: The month of May has been an eventful and exciting time for our founding directors at The Hippocratic Post with celebrations of achievement and birthday mentions. Thea Jourdan, our editorial director and co-founder of The Hippocratic Post, was recently honoured to receive The Master’s Medal for distinguished service to […]

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Obesity increases risk of mental disorders

Obesity increases risk of mental disorders: People suffering from obesity are at a significantly greater risk of also developing mental disorders. This applies to all age groups, whereby women are more at risk than men for most diseases, as a recent study by the Medical University of Vienna and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna shows. […]

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Obesity increases risk of mental disorders

Obesity increases risk of mental disorders: People suffering from obesity are at a significantly greater risk of also developing mental disorders. This applies to all age groups, whereby women are more at risk than men for most diseases, as a recent study by the Medical University of Vienna and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna shows. […]

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