A new University of Leicester study reveals that screening people who are at risk of developing diabetes could be a cost-effective health policy and improve the lives of patients.
In her inaugural lecture on Wednesday 12th November, Dr Clare Gillies of the Department of Health Sciences will reveal the results of her simulation study investigating the [...]
Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic, debilitating disorder affecting 25 million people in the U.S — 14-24 percent of women and 5-19 percent of men.
No reliable and satisfactory medical treatment exists for the full range of IBS symptoms, which can cause severe physical and psychological distress and deprive sufferers of their quality of life.
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A new research study underway at Cardiff University could see a decrease in the rates of treatment failure among patients with end-stage kidney disease.
Experts in the Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Interdisciplinary Research Group at the School of Medicine have secured more than £230,000 ($375,000) from the ‘Renal Discoveries - The Baxter Extramural Grant’ program, to [...]
Many children love sending and receiving text messages through their cell phones - sometimes to the great annoyance of their parents.
But now a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests this technology could be used to reduce children’s chances of becoming overweight or obese later in life, by helping them [...]
Scientists have thought that one way to foil a tumor from generating blood vessels to feed its growth - a process called angiogenesis - was by creating drugs aimed at stopping a key vessel growth-promoting protein. But now the opposite seems to be true.
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