The 2018 Rare Disease Day video!

Show your rare. Show you care.  This year’s video features patients and family members, researchers and doctors who show their rare. The video shows the wide range of people involved in the rare disease cause and together, with your support they can be a strong voice for greater progress in research of rare diseases. […]

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The 2018 Rare Disease Day video!

Show your rare. Show you care.  This year’s video features patients and family members, researchers and doctors who show their rare. The video shows the wide range of people involved in the rare disease cause and together, with your support they can be a strong voice for greater progress in research of rare diseases. […]

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34% of adults unable to name any signs or symptoms of eating disorders

This week is Eating Disorders Week. Beat is the UK’s leading charity supporting anyone affected by eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, EDNOS or any other difficulties with food, weight and shape. This week Beat calls upon the Government and NHS to increase awareness. More than one in three adults (34%) in the UK, who gave an […]

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34% of adults unable to name any signs or symptoms of eating disorders

This week is Eating Disorders Week. Beat is the UK’s leading charity supporting anyone affected by eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, EDNOS or any other difficulties with food, weight and shape. This week Beat calls upon the Government and NHS to increase awareness. More than one in three adults (34%) in the UK, who gave an […]

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Social media and eating disorders

At the start of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, two experts in eating disorders discuss the problem of social media and bloggers who can help to promote poor body self-image. Alexia Dempsey is an Eating Disorders Specialist at the Priory Hospital Roehampton in South-West London. “Selfies, self-image, self-esteem and the “self” is very much at the […]

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Social media and eating disorders

At the start of Eating Disorders Awareness Week, two experts in eating disorders discuss the problem of social media and bloggers who can help to promote poor body self-image. Alexia Dempsey is an Eating Disorders Specialist at the Priory Hospital Roehampton in South-West London. “Selfies, self-image, self-esteem and the “self” is very much at the […]

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Testing cancer drugs on mini tumours

Testing cancer drugs on miniature replicas of a patient’s tumour could help doctors tell in advance which treatments will work, a major new study reports. The exciting new technique involves growing ‘mini tumours’ from biopsy samples – and could help end reliance on trial and error in selecting cancer treatments for patients where genetic tests […]

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Testing cancer drugs on mini tumours

Testing cancer drugs on miniature replicas of a patient’s tumour could help doctors tell in advance which treatments will work, a major new study reports. The exciting new technique involves growing ‘mini tumours’ from biopsy samples – and could help end reliance on trial and error in selecting cancer treatments for patients where genetic tests […]

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