Author: Hippocratic Post

Heart attack: antibodies identified to protect against secondary damage. New research is shedding light on the hidden mechanisms behind heart attacks and offering hope for more effective treatments. A recent study by MedUni Vienna has uncovered previously unknown cellular processes that occur in the blocked coronary arteries leading to heart attacks. In a study led […]

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Sex hormones modulate the immune system to influence disease risk differently. Researchers have uncovered how hormones profoundly affect our immune systems, explaining why men and women are affected by diseases differently. Scientists from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Imperial College London have shown for the first time which aspects of our immune systems are […]

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Increased Suicide Rates Among Individuals with Autism: People on the autism spectrum are almost 3 times more likely to die by suicide compared to non-autistic people. Dr Damian Santomauro from UQ’s School of Public Health and the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research led a team which conducted a systematic review of nearly 1500 international research […]

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Studies to improve the way we monitor and test for lead poisoning in children and communicate data through sound have been awarded more than £1.1 million through a new funding scheme announced today. Northumbria is the only university in the north of England to have had two projects selected in a new UKRI pilot scheme […]

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A Coventry University researcher has been part of a first-of-its-kind project to establish an electronic healthcare database to improve maternity care and reduce deaths of mothers and babies in low and middle-income countries. The Maternal and Perinatal Database for Quality, Equity and Dignity (MPD-4-QED) Programme in Nigeria has been established by the World Health Organisation, […]

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