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By Health Correspondent An international research team has found the first direct evidence that natural daylight can benefit people with type 2 diabetes more than artificial light. Metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes are increasing, partly due to modern lifestyles that disrupt the body’s natural circadian rhythm. People
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By Health Correspondent As many people start a new exercise or gym routine at the beginning of the year, new research suggests that just 10 minutes of intense exercise could help fight cancer. A new study has shown that short bursts of vigorous activity can trigger rapid molecular changes in
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By Health Correspondent In a world first, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta have successfully carried out a coronary artery bypass without opening the chest. Coronary artery bypass surgery is usually a form of open-heart surgery. This new approach avoided cutting
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By Health Correspondent Warwick Medical School (WMS) has officially launched its Community First Responder (CFR) scheme, part of the wider regional scheme led by West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust (WMAS). Uniformed volunteer WMS students, professionally trained and supervised, are choosing to give their time to care for
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By Community Correspondent A teenager who stopped breathing when his lungs collapsed has helped to train his classmates in the life-saving skills which saved his life. Earlier this year, mum Donna Rosenwould collected her son Ollie, 17, from school as he wasn’t feeling well. Once at home, he was
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By Community Correspondent A dedicated fundraiser and breast cancer survivor has donated a specially designed garden to the Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre (NBCRC). Alice Greaves, 27, from Leicestershire, who was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer aged just 24, has already raised £60,000 to fund vital research in
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By Health Correspondent Children in the UK for years have been placed in narrow diagnostic categories—and one leading UK brain expert believes this approach may be preventing young people from realising their full potential. Dr Andrew Curran, a best-selling author, neurologist, and neurobiologist with more than 25 years of
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By Health Correspondent Upgraded ambulances with new design features to improve patient comfort and to help clinicians move people more easily during treatment are joining London Ambulance Service’s fleet ahead of winter. The 60 upgraded light-weight Ford ambulances are going out on the road in the coming weeks and
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By Health Correspondent An opinion piece written by Professor Eef Hogervorst from the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences for The Conversation: A new study suggests that even low levels of physical activity could protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease – but not in the way scientists expected. The
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By Josh Bell, Charities Correspondent A new community partnership between Donate For Defib Weston-super-Mare and University of Bristol Medical Students is giving local residents the chance to play a key role in lifesaving research. The collaboration focuses on understanding the barriers to performing CPR and using defibrillators during cardiac arrests,
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By Community Correspondent Representatives from the Oddfellows, a national friendly society, visited the Manchester Cancer Research Centre (MCRC) on Thursday 2 October to present a cheque for £67,068 to Prevent Breast Cancer to help progress its innovative breast cancer prevention research project. The research project, carried out by University
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By Health Correspondent A European clinical trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, found that 84% of participants regained the ability to read letters, numbers, and words using a new retinal implant in an eye blinded by geographic atrophy from dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Patients, who previously
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By Health Correspondent A team of cancer scientists and clinicians at the University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton has received £1.2 million from the World Cancer Research Fund to improve breast cancer treatment. Led by Professors Ellen Copson and Ramsey Cutress, the researchers will study how body composition
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By Health Correspondent Communities across London will have better access to life-saving defibrillators as the Mayor of London donates £150,000 to the London Ambulance Charity. The huge donation – on Restart a Heart Day – means the charity’s London Heart Starters campaign has reached its target to install 200 defibrillators
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By Health Correspondent Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is creating an army of lifesavers by providing FREE sessions on how to give CPR and use a defibrillator in a series of livestreamed and in-person events to support national Restart a Heart Day on Thursday 16 October. Thousands of
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By Josh Bell, Charities and Schools Correspondent The Donate For Defib Weston-super-Mare Project made another valuable community connection this week, as members were warmly welcomed by the Royal Sands Community Group for a CPR and Early Defibrillation Awareness presentation. Over coffee, cake, and plenty of smiles, 25 residents took part