Latest News
-
Hope for simple sleeping sickness treatment
A new ‘simple’ approach to treating sleeping sickness appears to be highly effective, researchers report today. Read more
-
Monkeypox renamed
Monkeypox disease is to be renamed because of complaints that its name is racist and stigmatising, the World Health Organization has announced. Read more
-
Pandemic experience used to find flu treatments
A £2.9 million national trial, launched today to help find effective treatments for people hospitalised with severe flu, will replicate lessons learnt in the pandemic. Read more
-
Precision medicine tested for rare cancers
A major new trial of precision medicine will seek treatments for patients with rare cancers, it has been announced. Read more
-
Measles a global and imminent threat – WHO
The pandemic-linked decline in measles vaccination has made the disease an “imminent threat”, the World Health Organization has warned today. Read more
-
Protein discovery could lead to less toxic cancer drugs
Better, less toxic cancer drugs could be developed following the discovery into how a key protein involved in a wide range of cellular processes works, British scientists have reported. Read more
-
COVID vaccine still ‘worthwhile’ in previously infected
New research adds to evidence that people who have been infected with COVID-19 and developed antibodies still benefit from vaccination. Read more
-
HDL cholesterol’s link to cardiovascular risk questioned
A major new research project questions the link between high density lipoprotein – the so-called “good cholesterol” – and reduced cardiovascular risk. Read more
-
Plan to make some cancers "extinct"
The aim of modern cancer research must be to disrupt the “complex eco-systems” that the disease creates in the body, some of the UK’s leading researchers say today. Read more
-
Alarm as survey shows widespread use of unprescribed antibiotics
The majority of antibiotics in parts of eastern Europe may be circulating without prescriptions, according to an alarming new investigation. Read more