Archive: 11/07/2014

ACL reconstructions may last longer with autografts

Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstructions occur more than 200,000 times a year, but the type of material used to create a new ligament may determine how long you stay in the game, say researchers presenting their work ...

Inadequate support in schools for diabetic children

The project entitled 'Young people with diabetes and their peers' led by Dr Brooks – who is a psychologist with the University of Huddersfield's Centre for Applied Psychological and Health Research – set out to examine ...

New stem cell therapy for ischaemic heart disease

An EU-funded project is looking into 'Cardiac stem cells' (CSCs) to tackle the problem of chronic heart failure in Europe. Whilst previous research has concentrated on cells from the patients themselves, the CARE-MI team ...

Cholera threatens thousands in South Sudan: agency

(AP)β€”An outbreak of cholera is putting thousands of lives at risk in parts of South Sudan, worsening the country's humanitarian crisis amid ongoing violence, the aid group Save the Children said Friday.

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