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  • Reducing DVT and leg ulcers through personalized compression socks
    News - 5 Jul 2017
    Professor Charles McCollum, who heads up the vascular studies unit, is a research vascular surgeon, and he developed four-layer bandaging technique, which is the gold standard treatment for healing up...
  • Antibiotic resistance: a healthcare emergency?
    News - 26 Jun 2017
    Antibiotic resistance is happening in hospitals quite frequently. Probably the main place where resistant organisms and pathogens are acquired is in intensive care units (ICUs).
  • Fighting colorectal cancer
    News - 31 Mar 2017
    Colorectal cancer is a combined term to describe the malignant tumors that occur in the large intestine; the colon being the upper part of the large intestine and the rectum being the lowest part of...
  • Childhood obesity starts in the womb?
    News - 11 Jan 2017
    There is incontrovertible evidence that some harmful drugs and toxins can affect lifelong health. For example, if women take certain drugs in pregnancy, such as thalidomide, there are well documented...
  • How can we tackle antimicrobial resistance?
    News - 20 Dec 2016
    Antimicrobial resistance happens when bugs, like bacteria, fungi or viruses, change, or evolve, when they’re exposed to drugs, like antibiotics, antifungals, or antivirals. Bugs that develop...
  • Innovation in stroke aftercare across Europe: an interview with Professor Urs Fischer
    News - 13 Dec 2016
    Stroke is the epidemic disease of the twenty-first century and the second most frequent cause of death in 2011, accounting for 11% of all deaths worldwide. Stroke is also the second most important...
  • Detecting inflammation in diabetic patients
    News - 7 Dec 2016
    As well as presenting with high blood glucose, diabetic patients have chronic low-grade inflammation, which can be measured by a range of inflammatory markers such as so-called high-sensitive CRP,...
  • How old is your heart?
    News - 1 Dec 2016
    There have been a number of ways to measure the biological health and age of your heart, which has been done conventionally in the past. Blood pressure is one indicator. Other risk indicators include...
  • NTM lung infections
    News - 23 Nov 2016
    Nontuberculous mycobacteria are part of a group of bacteria called mycobacteria. The non-tuberculous mycobacteria are, as the name suggests, mycobacteria that are not tuberculosis. They're also not...
  • Nano-biointeraction and nanopathology
    News - 31 Oct 2016
    Nanoparticles enter the organism in a number of ways. In most cases through inhalation and ingestion. When inhaled, the majority of them are expelled with the next breath. When ingested, most of them...

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