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Depression as deadly as smoking, but anxiety may be good for you
Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years following the survey, the mortality risk was incre...
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Read moreSickle cell study boosts call for improved childhood immunization programs in Africa
Sickle cell anaemia affects millions of people worldwide, but more than eighty per cent of cases are in Africa, where 200,000 children are born with the disease every year. It is a genetic disease, wh...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreComputational Process Zeroes in on Top Genetic Cancer Suspects
The goal is to provide critical help to researchers who are poring over numerous newly discovered gene mutations, many of which are harmless or have no connection to cancer. According to its inventors...
Information Technology | Read moreNo evidence for the routine use of aspirin in people with asymptomatic vascular events
The study is the first placebo-controlled randomised trial designed to determine the effect of aspirin in asymptomatic atherosclerosis as reflected by a low ankle brachial index (ABI). Results found n...
Health and Medicine | Read moreWisconsin team grows retina cells from skin-derived stem cells
Even sooner, the discovery will lead to laboratory models for studying genetically linked eye conditions, screening new drugs to treat those conditions and understanding the development of the human e...
Life Sciences | Read moreMarine microbes creating green waves in industry
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) in collaboration with Edinburgh based company Ingenza Ltd are searching for new enzymes for use as manufacturing tools in the...
Life Sciences | Read more30-year follow-up study: 'Tremendous' impact of smoking on mortality and cardiovascular disease
The results, presented in Stockholm at EuroPRevent 2009, reflect what many other studies have indicated, but, says investigator Professor Haakon Meyer from the University of Oslo and Norwegian Institu...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreProstate cancer screening programme shows high compliance and consistent results in more than 38,000 men
A total of 154,934 men and women aged from 55 to 74 took part in the multi-centre Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial and 38,349 men were selected at random to receive a pros...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreLiver disease tackled with dedicated £1m unit
Liver disease death rates are rising in the UK, in contrast to other common diseases such as heart disease and cancer, and the new Robert Hesketh Hepatology Clinical Research Facility aims to provide ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSensitive ultrasound to spot early-stage cancer
Most of the current diagnostic methods – biopsy analysis, biochemical tests and medical imaging – are not sufficiently sensitive. They frequently return a false negative; the tumour is only discovered...
Medical Engineering | Read moreUnpicking the complexity of human disease
The mysteries of the human genome are slowly being revealed - but the more we uncover the more complicated the picture becomes. This was one key message to emerge from the European Science Foundation ...
Life Sciences | Read moreNanotechnology boosts war on superbugs
The researchers, led by Dr Rachel McKendry and Professor Gabriel Aeppli, developed ultra-sensitive probes capable of providing new insight into how antibiotics work, paving the way for the development...
Physics and Astronomy | Read moreSpace tech helps to reach long-jump world record
In spring 2004, ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme (TTP) technology broker MST Aerospace met with Wojtek Czyz and his trainer to perform a pre-screening of the most crucial elements of the prosthesis...
Materials Sciences | Read moreSocial class dictates cancer risk
A detailed analysis of the incidence of these four different kinds of cancer, carried out on more than 300,000 English cancer patients and published today in the open access journal BMC Cancer, descri...
Social Sciences | Read moreScientists develop new, more sensitive nanotechnology test for chemical DNA modifications
During methylation, healthy genes can be switched on or off potentially causing cancer without any changes in the underlying DNA sequence. The current methods for methylation screening, have significa...
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