All Health/Diagnostics
Recruitment starts on first genetic screening for brain aneurysm
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Genetic screening is being employed to improve early treatment and detection of brain aneurysms.
Novel duo offer early diagnosis for four cardiac conditions
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Two technologies developed in UK institutions and capable of addressing four heart conditions have …
Hearing pioneer James Hudspeth dies aged 79
Added: 24 Aug 2025
A. James Hudspeth, the American neuroscientist credited with discovering how the inner ear translat…
Protein inhibitor offers potential to counter advance of brain tumours
Added: 24 Aug 2025
Drugs that prevent the body from clearing parts of brain cells damaged by cancer could help slow tu…
Innovation in dialysis equipment
Added: 6 Aug 2025
In 2022, more than 30,000 people were undergoing kidney dialysis in the UK [1], all of whom will re…
Study reveals the eye is the window to the heart
Added: 3 Aug 2025
Routine eye scans could help identify major coronary illness up to a decade early, concludes resear…
Study suggests older male endurance athletes have greater heart rhythm risk
Added: 21 Jul 2025
Older male endurance athletes may be at higher risk of abnormal heart rhythms, according to a study…
Heat deaths could rise 50 times in 50 years, claims new report
Added: 14 Jul 2025
Rising temperatures and an aging population could result in a fiftyfold increase in heat related de…
Mass collaboration produces benchmark recommendations for oxylipin studies
Added: 4 Jun 2025
An international collaboration involving 100 individuals from more than 70 academic institutions ha…
Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’
Added: 29 May 2025
Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…
Researchers get to the heart of organ development
Added: 18 May 2025
Advanced microscopy has enabled researchers to capture in real time the formation of an animal hear…
Mosquito project overwhelmed by swarm of willing citizen scientists
Added: 5 May 2025
Citizen scientists working with the University of Glasgow have amassed more than 700 reports over a…
Trials tackle if menstrual cycle contributes to women’s soccer injury
Added: 5 May 2025
Football governing body FIFA is funding Kingston University to research whether the menstrual cycle…
Royal Marsden claims first with online daily adaptive radiotherapy treatment
Added: 5 May 2025
London’s Royal Marsden Hospital is claiming a medical first for a radiotherapy planning system that…
PacBio to partner ‘first ever’ North African based dementia study
Added: 28 Apr 2025
Biotechnology company PacBio is to be a partner in a project to address the under representation of…
AI enables vets to take cues straight from the horse’s mouth
Added: 21 Apr 2025
Two Swedish research institutions have developed an AI platform that provides a 'digital voice' for…
Genetic study suggests possible means to identify drug resistant epilepsy
Added: 21 Apr 2025
Identifiying ‘genetic signatures’ could enable medical experts to determine which epilepsy sufferer…
Protein test 'for a fiver' may quadruple accuracy of heart risk prediction
Added: 12 Apr 2025
Basic £5 blood tests for a single protein could more accurately predict a person's risk of heart at…
New survey finds lower levels of vitamins and iodine in UK milk
Added: 11 Apr 2025
A new survey of cows’ milk on sale in UK supermarkets has found that it contains lower levels of vi…
Study reveals older exercisers are made of tougher stuff
Added: 6 Apr 2025
Older adults may be more physically resilient when exercising than is commonly supposed, according …
