Tissue Access for Patient Benefit (TAPb) is a UCL and Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust initiative, based in the UCL Division of Surgery. For over a decade, TAPb has been linking laboratory-based research to clinical trials by enabling hospital patients to donate tissue and blood samples for research. This biobanking activity usually supports research in […]
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The wellbeing of healthcare professionals will be pushed to the top of the policy agenda when the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow holds its next webinar on Tuesday 12th May 2020. The college’s latest free online event, which will be chaired by college President Professor Jackie Taylor, will hear from three key […]
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On International Nurses Day 2020 (May 12), the University of Bradford celebrates the role of nurses and its ongoing contribution to providing high quality teaching for healthcare professionals. At a time when the spotlight seems ever on healthcare, it is a measure of the quality of teaching at the University of Bradford’s Faculty of Health […]
To mark International Nurses Day, in this the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Nursing Now has made a film to shine a light on the incredible work of nurses around the world. This film uses the voices of people from different walks of life, from actors to footballers and global health-stakeholders to highlight […]
In her new book, ‘The Well Gardened Mind’ psychiatrist Sue Stuart-Smith explores how gardening is good for the mind and body and can ease the stress of your hospital job. Spending time in the garden, pottering and listening to birdsong is beneficial for our physical and mental health, a new study has found. Professor Alistair […]
Sudden cardiac death is a common cause of death in patients with reduced systolic ejection function. As part of a long-term observational study, MedUni Vienna researchers from the Division of Cardiology have now shown the importance of the diastolic filling function: the less the heart fills when there is diastolic dysfunction, the more likely patients […]
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The dissection of how the brain’s interface controlling metabolism evolves during brain development is now understood from a recent study. The study team led by MedUni Vienna’s Center for Brain Research charted how cell types that form neuroendocrine command centers to control virtually all aspects of bodily metabolism evolve during brain development. The study, which […]
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While pangolins can be carriers of coronavirus, they appear able to tolerate it through some other unknown mechanism. The exotic animals lack two sensors that detect when a virus enters the body and trigger a – sometimes dangerously excessive – immune response in other mammals. Understanding how pangolins are able to survive coronavirus infections could […]
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Have you been furloughed? Priory mental health expert offers advice on how to manage anxiety and look after your mental health during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Millions have been furloughed with the Government paying an employee’s salary, up to 80 per cent of their monthly income, capped at £2,500 a month; The Office for National Statistics […]
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We have now measured the concentration of aluminium in human brain tissue from over two hundred donors involving at least five different brain banks. This equates to several thousand individual brain tissue samples. We have information relating to sporadic and familial Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer, epilepsy and autism. If I am honest, I am […]