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The latest health news from organisations working in the medical science sector to explore and develop effective new techniques for the delivery of cutting edge healthcare.

Harnessing algal biodiversity and biotechnology to develop solutions for inflammatory bowel diseases

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Niagara College leads research in healthy ageing and wellness

Niagara Canada is transforming health and wellness research into real-world impact and building global partnerships for the future.

AvantGuard’s AVA-003: A new front in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

AvantGuard’s AVA-003 compound offers a proactive solution against antimicrobial resistance, targeting pathogens with sustained activity.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 global targets designed to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030. Our latest health news includes updates from organisations looking to tackle Goal 3 and Goal 10.

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The Circle of Health – exploring health promotion frameworks

Patsy Beattie-Huggan, founder and principal consultant at The Quaich, discusses the Circle of Health the impact of health promotion. In 1986 the Ottawa Charter for...

Timing the decay of antimatter improves medical imaging technologies

Atomic physicists and nuclear medicine experts at the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) have devised a simple way...

$1.1m to improve bypass grafts used to treat coronary heart disease

Researchers led by the University of Pittsburgh (UoP), USA, have received a $1.1m award from the National Institutes of Health to improve the bioscaffolds...

RetinaRisk allows you to calculate the risk of diabetic retinopathy

Professor Einar Stefánsson explains how the RetinaRisk app offers a truly personalised approach by identifying patients’ individualised risk of developing sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy. The global...

Can machine learning create faster clinical trials for COVID-19?

A recent research paper, published in Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, describes how advances in machine learning can provide an opportunity for researchers to create...

Ebola telehealth tool adapted to treat COVID-19 patients

Telehealth tools developed at the University of Virginia’s UVA Health to provide remote treatment and guidance to Ebola patients could help care providers reduce...

New AI-based system increases the accuracy of epilepsy diagnoses

A spinout company from the University of Birmingham, named Neuronostics, has received funding to develop an AI-based system which increases the accuracy of epilepsy...

New 3D printed remote monitoring device for COVID-19 patients

EIT Digital Master School students have developed a 3D printed remote monitoring device which can measure the vital signs of COVID-19 patients to enables...

New funding for research on medicine use during pregnancy

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has granted the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) £292,000 to support its computer-aided modelling research on...

Developing a computational auditory model

Professor Masashi Unoki, from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, discusses his work on developing a computational model of the auditory system. The...

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