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Asperger support service to be launched at Cambridge Uni
Students and staff in Cambridge University who have Asperger Syndrome will now be able to get rapid access to a diagnostic clinic and appropriate support via the University Disability Resource Cent...
Medics should lead the way in promoting disability equality - BMA (UK)
While doctors have an important role to play in promoting disability equality, the BMA report emphasises that everyone in healthcare, from senior NHS managers through to reception and administrativ...
Research suggests that boiling broccoli ruins its anti-cancer properties
Research suggests that the standard British cooking habit of boiling vegetables damages the anti-cancer properties of many brassica vegetables such as broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and gre...
Childhood environment influences female reproductive function
Egyptians, not Greeks, were true fathers of medicine
Researchers studying documents dating back 3,500 years have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt rather than with Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks. The team from t...
Death threats, bullying and verbal abuse: the lot of a student nurse
Nearly half of student nurses surveyed by a London University have been verbally abused while on their work experience placements, according to new research being presented at the Royal College of ...
Difficult births in obese women due to uterus failure (Liverpool University)
Liverpool scientists have uncovered the reason why overweight women have more Caesarean sections; they are at significant risk of their uterus contracting poorly in childbirth. In a study of 4,000 ...
Student nurses left unsupervised in charge of patients, warns RCN (UK)
Student nurses are being left in sole charge of patients during clinical placements, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). More than 1,500 student nurses from across the UK w...
Nurses' damning report spells out devastating effects of NHS financial crisis
More than 22,300 NHS posts have been lost in the last 18 months because of the financial crisis hitting the health service, according to a new report fromthe Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
Early-stage sperm cells created from human bone marrow
Food worldwide is still far too salty - Report from Warwick University
The world’s food is still far too salty and too many countries are still ignoring the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) guidelines on what should be a healthy level of salt in our daily diet commen...
RCN warns of dark mood among UK nurses over proposed pay cut
More than ten thousand nurses have bombarded MPs with letters protesting at this year’s pay cut for nurses and other health care workers to date. It comes as the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) un...
Struggle of black and minority ethnic and international nurses (UK)
A recent report from Employment Research Ltd commissioned by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) indicates that Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and Internationally Recruited Nurses (IRN) are more li...
Consultants say health reforms block innovation in patient care (UK)
Four out of five leading hospital consultants in England say they have initiated changes to improve patient care in the last year, but many are being hindered by ill-thought out government health p...
European *Blood Pressure based on Happiness* League Table - Warwick University
Researchers at the University of Warwick have found a direct connection between a nation′s overall happiness and its citizens′ blood pressure problems. Sweden, Denmark and the UK come t...
