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Serum Neurofilament a Discriminative Biomarker Between Frontotemporal Dementia & Psychiatric Disorders
Early symptoms of frontotemporal dementia are often confused with symptoms occurring in psychiatric disorders. Reporting their findings in Journal of Neurology, Finnish researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Oulu show that serum neurofilament levels can be used as a diagnostic tool to differentiate between these conditions. Frontotemporal dementia is the […]
“What Could I Have Achieved in my 20s With These Tools”
World Mental Health Day is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy against social stigma.[i] Although the stigma is starting to change a study by ThinkWell LiveWell found that people are putting their mental health on the back-burner, with over a third ignoring signs of stress and anxiety. The Naked Professor, Ben […]
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New Evolution-busting Drug Overcomes Resistance in Aggressive Breast Cancers
A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a new study has shown. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that the drug could reinvigorate the response to chemotherapy in cancers that had become resistant, in both […]
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Gut Bacteria “Fingerprint” Predicts Radiotherapy Side Effects
· First clinical study to show link between types of gut bacteria and radiotherapy-induced gut damage · Studying patients’ bacterial fingerprint could help predict, prevent or treat gut damage following radiotherapy Taking a ‘fingerprint’ of the mix of bacteria in the gut can indicate how susceptible individual cancer patients are to gut damage as a […]
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Extreme Medicine
Dr Matt Walton will be speaking at the upcoming World Extreme Medicine conference to be held in Edinburgh on 23-25 November. I’ve always had an interest in extreme medicine since I received battlefield first aid training with the Newcastle Combined Cadet Force when I was at school. When I was at medical school, I volunteered […]
Social Anxiety at School
What’s it like – and what to do about it: A leading Oxford-based child psychiatrist explains The mental health charity Mind says there should be more help for students affected by social anxiety disorder – which is sometimes known as school phobia or school refusal – in which a child will not go to school […]
The Toxicity of Aluminium Adjuvants
It would seem that I am a rare breed. I research the safety of aluminium adjuvants used in vaccines (See; Safety concerns around aluminium adjuvants). In doing so, I acknowledge that not all vaccines that include an aluminium adjuvant are completely safe for all recipients. This is not an opinion that is openly shared by […]
Light Activated Metal Catalyst Destroys Cancer Cells’ Vital Energy Source
New Iridium compounds effective towards killing cancer cells even without the presence of oxygen – expanding the range of tumours that can be targeted When activated by light, compound cuts off the cancer cell’s ‘power source’ Technique could reduce side effects of cancer treatment and potentially immunise against future cancer Most Iridium is believed to […]
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Nutrional Risks Replace Smoking as Society’s “Biggest Killer”
Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer, obesity, Alzheimer’s and coronary disease accounted for the single-largest burden on the public purse in the UK – an estimated £148bn per annum – according to an eminent nutritionist from the University of Cambridge who gave the keynote at a debate on farming, food and health at Queen’s University […]
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