Everyday Noise Exposure a “Major Public Health Issue”: Experts call for more awareness over the impact of noise exposure – contributing to permanent hearing damage and impacting quality of life. Excessive noise exposure is the main cause of preventable hearing impairment worldwide, accounting for more than a third of all cases of hearing loss in […]
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The University of Aberdeen has joined a major European research and innovation programme to develop next-generation chemical risk assessment, incorporating both human health and the environment in a ‘One Health’ approach. The 400-million-euro European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) is a seven-year partnership between 200 partners in 28 countries including the […]
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Taking the moisture out of moisturiser: Researchers at the University of East Anglia have developed a new technology that turns beauty products like moisturiser into a dry piece of confetti-like ‘paper’. The breakthrough means that 98 per cent of the water in products like moisturiser, sun-cream, shampoo and conditioner can be removed. Users simply need to […]
Watch this US video on the signs that someone is in trouble in the water. Despite the fact that this has been done in an animated format and is very simplistic, the message is hard hitting and you can almost feel the distress of the mannequin-like subject who is struggling to stay afloat. […]
Doctors Adrift Ted Welman and Jack Faulkner have smashed the world record for the fastest pair to cross the Indian Ocean whilst raising vital funds for MSF. […]
If you think pollution is bad in London now, just take a look at what Londoners were forced to breathe into their lungs in the 1960s. And the researchers at the Medical Research Council had it even worse – they were guinea pigs of the day, exposed to soot in a closed room and then […]
Maximum security prisons at Durham, Leicester and Parkhurst from British Pathe. […]
A look at how asbestos is formed and at the various fireproof goods it can be used to make. One of many inventions we might now consider rather dangerous! […]
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The Bristol Community Rose Clinic is a community-based service that provides specialist care and support for Bristol women who are experiencing problems because of FGM. – Find out more here. With thanks to Riverhouse films. […]
[youtube id=”cXSMNNtsmW0″ width=”750″ height=”422″ position=”left”] If you have a minute or three, sit back and see how much has changed in the NHS since 1957. Have doctors ever felt that they received a fair deal with the National Health Service? Or has there always been, and will there always be, an uneasy relationship between medics and […]