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NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard resigns in shock move

Health & Social Care
Amanda Pritchard has announced her resignation as chief executive of NHS England, a development that has sent shockwaves through the health service. What does this change mean for the NHS and the future of UK healthcare policy?

All My Relations: advancing Indigenous family health

Health & Social Care
Dr Rod McCormick shares details on the All My Relations Network, a national Indigenous family and community wellness research centre for health and healing

Organ donation – where next?

Health & Social Care
Fiona Loud, Policy Director at Kidney Care UK highlights the challenges of organ donation in England and how the country lags behind Wales and Scotland

Illicit drugs know no borders, neither should policy making

Health & Social Care
Simone Korff de Gidts, The Netherlands Organisation for Health, Research and Development highlights the ERANID project for illicit drugs research

Health research, from molecules to patients, at DCU

Health & Social Care
Director of Research Support Dr Ana M Terres notes the importance of health research and the strides being achieved by researchers at Dublin City University

Mental health and medication: The importance of perspective

Health & Social Care
Peter Kinderman, from Mental Health Europe, looks at mental health medication and how we need a new perspective on care

New plans to reduce childhood obesity in the UK unveiled

Health & Social Care
An investment of £5 million has been announced by the Department of Health for a new childhood obesity policy research unit The new unit at...

Gluten friendly technology fixes proteins in wheat kernels

Health & Social Care
Professor Carmen Lamacchia is the inventor of a new gluten friendly technology that promises to make bread and pasta safe for people with coeliac disease

Photodynamic Therapy – radiotherapy for the 21st Century

Health & Social Care
Photodynamic Therapy is a treatment that combines a photosensitizing drug, visible light and oxygen to kill cancer cells. Professor Eli Glatstein explains

Parkinson’s disease: are conventional treatments working?

Health & Social Care
Ramón Cacabelos, President of EuroEspes Biomedical Research Centre looks at conventional pharmacological treatments for Parkinson’s disease

Asthma: How to treat and prevent the high impact disease

Health & Social Care
Sereina de Zordo from the aha! Swiss Allergy Centre outlines the global burden of asthma and how through various methods and programmes it can be managed

Has austerity made healthcare a political football?

Health & Social Care
There are recent examples where healthcare has been used to win over voters, says Dorli Kahr-Gottlieb, Secretary General, European Health Forum Gastein Health has become...

Using ATP cleaning methods to reduce HCAIs

Health & Social Care
Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) could be prevented using adequate cleaning methods. Here Martin Easter of Hygiena International Ltd explains

What is the European drug situation in 2017?

Health & Social Care
Jane Mounteney, Alexis Goosdeel and Paul Griffiths from the EMCDDA highlight key findings from the 2017 European Drug Report and new threats emerging.

Environmental health science: reducing the risk

Health & Social Care
Virginia Guidry and Kimberly Gray from the NIEHS outline how environmental health science can help to identify potential hazards in a child’s environment

New concepts for the pathogenesis and asthma therapy

Health & Social Care
Prof Dr. Michael Roth, University Hospital Basel looks at how asthma therapy can reduce the effects of airway wall remodelling

Tackling the threat of antimicrobial resistance in Canada

Health & Social Care
As antibiotics become less effective against infection, Minister of Health, Jane Philpott, outlines the response to antimicrobial resistance in Canada.
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