Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have designed a new bandage treatment, known as a scaffold, to treat diabetic foot ulcers, which is cost-effective while improving patient outcomes. Produced by 3D bioprinting, the scaffolds slowly release antibiotics over a four-week period to effectively treat the wound. Diabetes, a lifelong condition that causes a person’s blood sugar […]
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Arrhythmia Alliance is the recipient of the Bristol Myer Squibb (BMS)/Pfizer Alliance 4th Annual Advocacy Summit Collaborator Award. The award recognizes an advocacy organization that worked effectively with others to achieve positive, inclusive results for heart patients and their care. Arrhythmia Alliance was nominated and selected by leading professionals and advocacy organizations within the heart rhythm field. […]
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Education vital to help patients considering future gene therapies for blindness: Australians with inherited retinal disease (IRD) have a strong interest in undergoing gene therapy to prevent and treat blindness – but there’s a critical need for education programs to help them make informed choices about future treatments, new research shows. The study, led by […]
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Taking control of back pain offers long-lasting results with ‘Back in Shape’ programme: writing exclusively for the Hippocratic Post, Consultant Osteopath Michael Fatica shares the innovative ‘Back in Shape’ programme which he conceived during lockdown to alleviate back pain misery for his patients. The impact of lockdown at the height of the pandemic was, of […]
New study reveals positive impacts of Flash glucose monitoring on blood sugar and quality of life Researchers compared finger prick testing to Flash glucose monitoring with optional alarms (FreeStyle Libre 2), tech used by more than half of people living with type 1 diabetes in England. Results show Flash helped people with type 1 diabetes […]
RCN strike ballot insights: Two thirds (63%) of nurses choosing between food and fuel and one in five (14%) turn to food banks as vast majority call for inflation matched pay. Fiona Millington is Chief Nurse at Florence. Fiona spent over 30 years in the NHS and now works with, and advises the government on […]
Rachel Murray, Head of Employee Wellbeing, at Bupa UK shares 5 tips to avoid back pain at work for Back Care Awareness Week 2022. An estimated ten million people in the UK suffer with back pain, with around six in ten of us expected to get it at some point in our lives. Google Trends […]
Launch of WHO’s first blueprint for dementia research: Dementia is one of the greatest health challenges of our generation. “Although dementia is the 7th leading cause of death globally, dementia research accounts for less than 1.5% of total health research output” said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO’s Chief Scientist. “Sadly, we are falling behind implementing the […]
Music in childhood boosts brains in later life according to new study from University of Edinburgh. Taking up a musical instrument in childhood and adolescence is associated with improved thinking skills in older age, research shows. People with more experience of playing a musical instrument showed greater lifetime improvement on a test of cognitive ability […]
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Nature walks should be prescribed as a health solution, according to Surrey academics: The world should follow in the footsteps of the UK and start to prescribe more exposure to nature to help improve physical and mental health wellbeing, say experts from the University of Surrey who are now leading a project in Germany to […]
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