Expert insight from leading podiatrist ahead of National Feet Week 2022 (7-13 March): Did you know that a shocking 40% of Brits do not change their socks every day, with 5% admitting they change them less than once a month, a new survey out reveals. Nearly half of Brits don’t change their socks every day, […]
As Endometriosis Awareness Month (March 2022) shines a light globally on the plight of women from puberty to menopause suffering from the condition, consultant rheumatologist Dr Wendy Holden at Sapphire Clinics gives her expert insight into the disease: “In the UK, around 1 in 10 women aged between 25 and 40 are currently living with […]
World-first guidelines for children with common inherited nerve disorder: Paediatric neurologists and allied health clinicians have developed world-first clinical practice guidelines for children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), the most common childhood inherited nerve disorder. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) research associate Dr Eppie Yiu and University of Sydney Professor Joshua Burns led an international effort to produce the guidelines, […]
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Understanding the link between gut bacteria and the development of early onset colorectal cancer: Researchers at the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research have received funding from Cancer Council New South Wales to better understand the non-genetic causes of early-onset colorectal cancer, presenting screening opportunities for the vulnerable group. Associate Professor Dan Buchanan and his […]
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Cell research on rare disease finds new link to inflammation: The discovery of an inflammatory driver in a rare syndrome may have implications for more common diseases like Parkinson’s and viral infections. By Dr Sophia Davidson for Pursuit, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and University of Melbourne. “How many people actually have […]
Rare Disease Day 2022 shines a light on the global and diverse community of over 300 million people living with a rare disease and their families. www.rarediseaseday.org By telling the stories of real people all around the world who are living with a rare disease, this video hopes to show that while each rare disease […]
The spectacular structure of the protective armour of superbug C.difficile has been revealed for the first time showing the close-knit yet flexible outer layer – like chain mail. This assembly prevents molecules getting in and provides a new target for future treatments, according to the scientists who have uncovered it. Publishing in Nature Communications, the […]
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Autoimmune diseases are triggered when the immune system malfunctions and attacks the body’s own structures. Although there is not, as yet, any cure for such diseases, their progression can be slowed down by therapeutic measures. Researchers at MedUni Vienna’s Center for Physiology and Pharmacology have now discovered a central signaling pathway in immune cells that […]
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Handheld breathing device could reduce breathlessness and improve physical fitness in long COVID patients: New research presented at The Physiological Society’s Long COVID: Mechanisms, Risk Factors, and Recovery on 22 – 23 February shows that a small handheld breathing device helped reduced breathlessness and improved physical fitness of people with long COVID. The low cost, home-based rehabilitation programme […]
Diseased male livers undergo sex-change: The livers of men diagnosed with hepatic diseases change sex as part of a potential self-protective mechanism, according to University of Queensland research. Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) lead researcher, Associate Professor Frederic Gachon said the surprise discovery was made during an investigation into why disruption of the body’s circadian clock is associated with […]