Research highlights powers of recovery with Montmorency cherries: Researchers at Northumbria University and St Mary’s University have revealed just how effective Montmorency tart cherry juice products can be in helping people recover after exercise. For more than 10 years, Professor Glyn Howatson – a research leader and Professor in Human and Applied Physiology – has […]
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Baby first aid: 3 ways to save your baby’s life – essential first aid for parents from Emma Hammett at First Aid for Life who currently run parent courses for First Aid for babies via zoom, The importance of a Baby First Aid course Any first-time parent knows there is nothing quite as overwhelming as […]
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RSM Covid-19 Series: Allocating critical care in a pandemic: With the pandemic stretching the capacity of the NHS, how should transparent decisions around prioritisation be made when services like critical care are scarce? To discuss this important question for the COVID-19 Series we welcome Professor Tim Cook, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Royal […]
The E484K mutation – a ‘backdoor’ to undoing vaccine efforts: As we are seeing many novel Covid-19 variants around the world, Professor Martin Michaelis and Dr Mark Wass of University of Kent’s School of Biosciences explain why this may be happening and what these new variants may mean: ‘After almost a year, in which SARS-CoV-2, the […]
COVID-19: Schools urgently need guidelines on improving ventilation in classrooms: There is an urgent need for guidelines on how schools can use ventilation to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the classroom, according to doctors at Imperial College London and the headteacher of a secondary school in Pinner, Middlesex. In a commentary published by the Journal […]
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Word Cancer Day 2021 – the ultimate year of the ‘I Am And I Will’ World Cancer Day campaign – shows us that our actions have an impact on everyone around us, within our neighbourhoods, communities and cities. This year is a reminder of the enduring power of cooperation and collective action. When we […]
Testing, testing, testing – can blood tests help to detect early cancers? With the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting the importance of testing, and our capacity to undertake it at large scale, can we use these testing strategies for earlier diagnosis of cancer? By Professor Maarten IJzerman and Professor Sarah-Jane Dawson, University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum […]
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Genetic screening before prescribing could benefit millions: Four million UK patients could benefit annually from genetic testing before being prescribed common medicines, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in collaboration with Boots UK and Leiden University (Netherlands). Researchers looked through 2019 NHS dispensing data across the UK to see how […]
COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread to additional countries. Over 175 000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week while infections rose by 50% on the continent between 29 December 2020 and 25 January 2021 […]
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“COVID emergency means the UK Government must no longer delay its promise of fixing social care”: The social care system must be drastically overhauled, and the Government urgently needs to deliver on its manifesto commitment to fix the failing social care sector. Launching its new report, Let’s do this: The promise of fixing social care, the Health […]