According to Alzheimer’s Research UK, 1 million people in the UK will have dementia by 2025 and this will increase to 2 million by 2050. This increase is a real concern, especially as the care system is already under strain. As dementia progresses, memory and thinking are increasingly affected. This means patients have to adjust […]
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FDA allows emergency use of drug for coronavirus
U.S. regulators on Friday allowed emergency use of an experimental drug that appears to help some coronavirus patients recover faster. It is the first drug shown to help fight COVID-19, which has killed more than 230,000 people worldwide. President Donald Trump announced the news at the White House alongside Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen […]
HEALTH NOTES: App allows deaf people to ‘hear’ conversations
HEALTH NOTES: App allows deaf people to ‘hear’ conversations Deaf people will be able to ‘hear’ in group conversations by using a revolutionary new wearable device. The gadget – half the size of an iPhone – beams in nanoseconds a transcript of conversations to a paired smartphone app. A deaf person then reads the conversation […]
Genetics allows personalized disease predictions for chronic blood cancers
Scientists have developed a successful method to make truly personalised predictions of future disease outcomes for patients with certain types of chronic blood cancers. The study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, the University of Cambridge, and their collaborators, combined extensive genetic and clinical information to predict the prognosis for […]