News incl. lifesciences, animals, wildlife & nature
from or mentioning the United Kingdom
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UK Animal Charity kept busy by floods
Animal Rescue News: Members of the RSPCA's water rescue team helped to rescue two foals and seven horses from a flooded field. The two foals, a miniature Shetland pony and six horses were trapped i...
Ethnic variations in breast cancer rates
Recent research suggests that differences in lifestyle and reproductive factors (such as number of pregnancies and duration of breastfeeding) are key to why UK breast cancer rates are lower in Sout...
Dietary fibre and risk of heart disease
Recent research (Dec 2013) indicates that greater dietary fibre intake is associated with lower risk of both cardiovascular disease (CVD) and coronary heart disease (CHD). This is yet another study...
Research finds superbug resistance protein
Scientists have recently identified a resistance protein that allows acinetobacter baumannii bacteria to survive chlorhexidine, an antiseptic commonly used in wipes, cleansers and mouthwashes in ho...
Assisted conception cancer risk ?
UK fertility organization welcomes recent US study indicating no increased risk of cancer to children born as a result of assisted reproduction treatment. This may reassure patients considering wh...
Nurses view about review of complaints about NHS (UK)
UK nurses care about the experiences of patients and their families or carers. Patients may feel reassured to know that the UK nursing profession supports efforts to improve not only patient care, ...
Prenatal depression in mothers - risk factor for depression in children at age 18 years
Recent research suggests that depression in pregnant women may increase the risk that their children have depression at age 18-years. This association matters because depression in late adolescence...
Schizophrenia symptoms linked with disconnect within the brain
Psychotic symptoms associated with schizophrenia could be due to a disconnect between the insula and the lateral frontal cortex in the brain - according to university research. Discovery might lead...
Glycaemia alert dogs help diabetic humans
How effective are medical detection dogs trained to detect and warn diabetics about variations in the person's hypoglycaemic state ? This summary of the results of a recent research study is encour...
News from bird fossils from the Cretaceous Period (145-66 million years ago)
Research shows that the shortening of the bony tails of very early birds (over 100 million years ago) helped them develop versatile legs, an evolutionary advantage. Birds from the Cretaceous Period...
Cervical cancer screening for all women in Uganda
Cervical cancer is a major cause of death from cancer among women in Uganda with over 2,400 women dying from the disease, and over 3,500 diagnosed with it, each year. Cervical cancer screening is t...
How astrocyte cells respond to brain injury and diseases such as strokes
Discovery about how astrocyte cells, such as those in the human brain, respond to brain injury and diseases such as strokes. A team of scientists from Bristol University (England) has identified pr...
Cavalry horses help research into equine lameness
Lameness is a common problem in horses but is often unreported. Therefore statistics about lameness in horses in the UK usually relates only to performance horses, such as racehorses, or to referra...
New images of how white blood cells attack infections
New images show how immune cells in the human body, whose pupose is to fight infections and cancer, change the arrangements of molecules on their surface (surface molecules) when activated by a typ...
