Author: Hippocratic Post

Human olfactory mucosa cell model opens a new perspective on Alzheimer’s disease: Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed and characterized a new cell model for Alzheimer’s disease that has wide utility for research and could prove useful in early diagnosis and testing of new therapies. In collaboration with clinicians at Kuopio University […]

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New Study Reveals What We Wear Can Attract Mosquitoes: A new study published in Nature Communications has revealed that mosquitoes are especially attracted to people wearing red, orange or black clothes[1]. Bite prevention expert, Howard Carter advises, “Even if you don’t wear this colour, the mosquitoes will still hone in on your skin which they […]

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Help Us Help You – Cervical Screening Campaign – Launched Monday 14th February 2022. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), with the support of NHS England and NHS Improvement, launched a Help Us Help You – Cervical Screening Campaign, to highlight the benefits of cervical screening and remind people that that it can […]

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Unused prescription medicines cost the NHS £300 million every year – 40% of Brits admit  binning unused medications, potentially wasting up to an estimated 445 million prescriptions a year. More than a third (36%) of people admit to taking potentially harmful medications, as a result of not checking their use-by date 4 in 10 people […]

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Record number of patients delayed by 12 hours or more as Urgent and Emergency Care faces deepening crisis: The latest Emergency Department performance figures published by NHS England for January 2022 show: There were 1,246,817 attendances at major Emergency Departments 16,558 patients were delayed for 12 hours or more from decision to admit to admission This is the […]

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