Archive: 15/03/2018

Number of deaths from meningitis due to plummet after new medical advice

Experts aim to halve the number of deaths from a type of meningitis by changing drug treatment as a result of a new medical study.

Mar 15, 2018

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Rugby players more likely than not to sustain a concussion after 25 matches in a season

Concussion is one of the biggest problems facing both rugby union and league. Rates of the traumatic brain injury in rugby union have been rising since the 2012/13 season, going from one concussion every 3.2 matches, to one ...

Mar 15, 2018

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Synthetic macromolecules kill multidrug-resistant cancer cells

Cancer continues to be a deadly threat to more than 14 million people who are diagnosed each year around the world. At the same time, five-year survival rates have been steadily improving over the last three decades to nearly ...

Mar 15, 2018

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Why women with HIV are persistently invisible – and how we can challenge it

The night before International Women's Day, I volunteered behind the bar at "A Catwalk for Power, Resistance and Hope", a fabulous fashion show for women with HIV organised by ACT UP London Women (AIDS Coalition to Unleash ...

Mar 15, 2018

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Researchers develop exciting new vaccine adjuvant

Associate Professors Bridget Stocker and Mattie Timmer from the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences worked with scientists from Japan to develop an adjuvant which can kick-start a powerful immune response and trigger ...

Mar 15, 2018

An STI epidemic in young people does not signal sexual abuse

Over the past two weeks, a number of commentators have called for the removal of Aboriginal children with sexually transmissible infections (STIs) from their families. This has resulted from the wrongful conflating of rates ...

Mar 15, 2018

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Machine-learning algorithm used to identify specific types of brain tumors

An international team of researchers has used methylation fingerprinting data as input to a machine-learning algorithm to identify different types of brain tumors. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team ...

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Improved capture of cancer cells in blood could help track disease

Tumor cells circulating throughout the body in blood vessels have long been feared as harbingers of metastasizing cancer - even though most free-floating cancer cells will not go on to establish a new tumor.

Mar 15, 2018

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Five things to know when a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer's

Seeing the personality and whole being erased in loved ones with Alzheimer's disease can be a heart-wrenching experience.

Mar 15, 2018

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Where does the controversial finding that adult human brains don't grow new neurons leave ongoing research?

Scientists have known for about two decades that some neurons – the fundamental cells in the brain that transmit signals – are generated throughout life. But now a controversial new study from the University of California, ...

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