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How to get along when staying at home
Advice to stay at home has caused millions of people to change their daily routines in recent weeks. There are many articles about how to deal with boredom, frustration, worry and the social requir...
Frog warning coloration is also camouflage
The bright yellow colours on poison dart frogs also have a camouflage function according to a recent study involving fieldwork in the jungles of Guiana followed by laboratory visual search experime...
First Aid knowledge could help to reduce pressure on UK Accident and Emergency Departments
Recent research has found that more than one third of people who went to accident and emergency hospital departments did so to seek help because they were worried and didn't know what to do (Englan...
Scientists to develop wearable technology incl. smart trousers
Bionic hands that transmit sensory data to the brain, smart socks that help you pick your feet up, smart trousers that support the wearer and assist with standing or even climbing stairs ... UK sci...
Teenage girls and sexual coercion in relationships
Recent study reveals around 40 percent teenage schoolgirls in England have been subjected to sexual coercion in the context of relationships and many teenage boys often look at pornographic images
Discovery of the brain circuits involved in emotion
Brain Science: Understanding the neural circuits underlying fear is an important step towards developing better treatments for behavioural changes associated with emotional disorders such as anxiet...
Young smokers father fatter sons
Recent study finds that the teenage sons of men who started smoking cigarettes frequently before the age of 11 years had more body fat than their peers e.g. school friends. A similar effect was fou...
Insulin use to treat type 2 diabetes trebles
The number of UK patients receiving prescriptions for insulin increased (almost tripled) between 1991 and 2010. The number of people with prescriptions for insulin for type 2 diabetes overtook th...
Mental Health of older people in debt
Recent research indicates that people who are struggling with their finances in old age are 8x more likely to have reduced mental well-being than their comparable people without financial challenge...
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...
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...
Study shows extent of variations in physical inactivity across England
Recent study suggests that almost 80% adults in England take insufficient physical exercise (i.e. less exercise than the level recommended by government experts). This might lead to health problems...
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...
Scent device to detect bladder cancer
Cancer researchers have developed and built a device called ODOREADER that contains a sensor that responds to chemicals in gas emitted from urine. This device correctly assigned 100% of cancer pati...
