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The Dementia Action Alliance, a consortium of over 50 health and social care organisations and charities including the Mental Health Foundation, has today published a letter calling for all prescri...

Faults in tumour suppressor protein p53 (also known as protein 53 or tumor protein 53) and encoded by the TP53 gene could be used to predict which drug combination ovarian cancer patients are most ...

Survivors of childhood cancers are four times more likely than the general population to develop a new cancer according to a recent study by cancer research scientists. The researchers followed the...

International Nurses Day is an opportunity for everyone - patients, nurses and politicians, to consider the the value of the nursing profession. International Nurses' Day was marked in the UK by th...

Some strains of Aspergillus fungi, a deadly fungal infection that can affect humans, seem to be developing resistance to current drug treatments at an alarming rate according to scientists involved...

Psoriasis sufferers could benefit from a new study that aims to reduce the symptoms of this chronic skin condition through the psychological concept of mindfulness. This research is based on the no...

People who suffer from bipolar disorder are prone to extreme mood swings that take them from great emotional highs to the pits of depression. The cause of these mood swings is often attributed to t...

Cancer Research UK-funded researchers have indicated that alcohol has a significant effect on cancers of the mouth, food-pipe, voice-box and pharynx. Specifically, they attributed 6,000 of these ca...

Latest research leads to advances in how to kill drug-resistant strains of the MRSA. This follows from the discovery of how marine bacteria combine two antibiotics they make independently to produc...