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Alzheimer’s drug to be tested in six years.

Posted on: 30 Dec 2011

A new drug to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease could be tested on patients within six years, according to researchers at Lancaster University. The Lancashire team is part of… read more

Cancer treatment “blows tumours away in weeks”.

Posted on: 28 Dec 2011

Researchers have pioneered a technique that involves leukaemia patients being treated with their own T-Cells – a type of white blood cell – that have been genetically modified to attack… read more

Electronic Tattoo ‘could revolutionise patient monitoring’

Posted on: 26 Dec 2011

An “electronic tattoo” could herald a revolution in the way patients are monitored and provide a breakthrough in computer gaming, say US scientists. They used the device to monitor the… read more

How long you live is dependent on how much you weighed at birth

Posted on: 23 Dec 2011

Finally, a real excuse to blame our parents and the choices they made for us when we were babies. Professor David Barker and his colleagues at Southampton University have spent… read more

Pills can cause pain abroad

Posted on: 21 Dec 2011

When moving abroad we try and take everything we possibly can, including the kitchen sink, ‘just in case’. If we are taking some form of medication, we would prefer to… read more