Researchers have found the addition of dairy foods into the daily diet of aged-care residents can reduce fractures and falls, in a study published today in the British Medical Journal. The two-year trial led by the University of Melbourne and Austin Health included 7195 residents from 60 Victorian aged-care facilities and was the first study to […]
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The Top 10 Workout Injuries of the Pandemic: New research from Bupa Health Clinics shows how the pandemic has changed our relationship with exercise. With gyms closed for so long, we’ve had to adapt out workout styles with little supervision, affecting our stamina and form, as well contributing to people turning to Google for their […]
Treasury should look for new ways to deliver more for less: In the aftermath of Covid, the government must control public spending and draw on private sector investment and innovation A new report by Julie Marson MP shows how Social Impact Bonds, and other outcomes-based approaches, could deliver better services for less money Social Impact Bonds were […]
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How to tackle the nursing crisis: For many people the social restrictions experienced during lockdowns will have had long-lasting consequences, increasing feelings of loneliness, stress and depression. But throughout the pandemic those employed in hospitals and care settings have faced the same issues, alongside having to deal with the pressures of working on the front-line. […]
Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study. The study investigated a cellular fitness marker, known as hfwe-Lose, to identify sub-optimal cells in patients who had been hospitalised or died from COVID at the start of the pandemic. Cell fitness has […]
A University of Queensland start-up company, developing a potential new treatment for obesity-related liver disease, has secured a seed investment of $1.3 million from IP Group, a UK-based intellectual property business. Jetra Therapeutics Pty Ltd is developing a treatment with the potential to reverse liver damage caused by Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and Non-alcoholic […]
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$8M from Snow Medical Research Foundation to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients: A physician scientist whose research focuses on an important but overlooked problem in cancer biology has been awarded one of three $8 million Snow Fellowships. Announced today by the Snow Medical Research Foundation, the Fellowships are awarded to young, outstanding biomedical research leaders. […]
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Experts from the University of Nottingham have discovered that reversing the modification of molecular messages at synapses in the human brain, may contribute to reversible mental health conditions such as anxiety, and memory diseases such as dementia. The findings , published in Molecular Psychiatry, are a major step in our understanding how brain cells communicate, […]
IBMS response to COVID-19 laboratory testing suspension in Wolverhampton: We must assure the same quality of testing and competence of staff as pathology laboratories in the NHS and private healthcare sector. As the professional body for biomedical science, the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) expects any workforce undertaking diagnostic testing for COVID-19 to meet the […]
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Social disadvantage in the UK has a lasting impact on childhood asthma. Children experiencing social disadvantage in their first few years of life have a greatly increased risk of asthma persisting into adulthood. These are the findings of a study, published today in the journal Thorax, looking at the early life circumstances of thousands of […]
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