Lorraine MacAlister is an autism training consultant and will co-chair the upcoming Autism and Mental Health Conference on the 12th September 2018. As the Author of the NAS Teen Life parent programme, this conference links in with many of the potential challenges that teenagers on the autism spectrum may face. This annual conference is a […]
This autumn thousands of people will be flocking to farmers’ festivals around the UK, from the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent, to Norfolk, Yorkshire and the Shetland Isles. September is a bumper time for harvesting onions, apples, potatoes, courgettes, tomatoes, aubergines, beetroot, blackberries and runner beans with many crops reaching their peak as the sun […]
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Measles cases across Europe have hit a record high, causing 37 deaths this year. New figures from the World Health Organisation show a staggering 41,000 cases of measles in the first half of 2018 alone. In 2016, there were just 5,273 cases across the European region. Although the WHO confirmed that UK had eliminated measles in […]
Mothers diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) have an elevated risk of developing postpartum depression symptoms, according to a new Finnish study. Gestational diabetes mellitus refers to impaired glucose metabolism during pregnancy. Often, mothers with GDM have too high blood glucose levels, and this increases the risk of various adverse effects on the fetus. Moreover, […]
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Tests that ‘red flag’ the early signs of heart disease in women who had high blood pressure during pregnancy could be developed following a new project by the University of Aberdeen. Pre-eclampsia is a condition marked by high blood pressure in pregnancy and signs of damage to another organ, often the kidneys. The condition affects 1 […]
Dame Stephanie Shirley discusses her experiences of CDD (Childhood Disintegrative Disorder). When my son Giles was about 2½ years old, it was already clear that he was learning disabled. But whereas up to then he had progressed day by day, a really scary thing happened. He started – over a very short period – to regress. […]
Wellcome launches a £20,000 photography prize to showcase powerful stories about health and invites doctors, researchers, clinical photographers and other health professionals to submit their entries A new international photography prize for pictures that tell stories about health issues and encourage a more diverse view of what research and health mean has been launched by […]
Innovative cycling way back when…. […]
The UK’s oldest surgical Royal College is switching gears and taking to the road, on the first-ever ‘Cycling Symposium’ across the UK, on Saturday 1st September. On behalf of the 500+ year-old Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a dozen surgeons and surgeons-in-training will be setting off on 1 September on a gruelling seven-day bicycle […]
Blood tests could predict how long it takes until bowel cancer returns based on the same principle used in forecasting the weather, a new study has found. The blood tests, or ‘liquid biopsies’, could also pick out people unlikely to respond to the drug in the first place. Researchers developed a computer model that can […]
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