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Rehabilitation Robotics: What are the benefits?
Dr Thierry Keller Director of Rehabilitation at TECNALIA Research & Innovation discusses how robotic technologies can help assist rehabilitation
Rehabilitation robotics includes a wide range of stationary and portable electromechanical assisted training devices with the main purpose to train lost body functions caused by neurological or traumatic events. Although a...
Why quitting smoking may not be a safe alternative to harm reduction
Last year saw the 50th anniversary of the US Surgeon General’s Report Smoking and Health and triggered global efforts to prevent tobacco use. Over those 5 decades, US smoking prevalence has fallen dramatically from around 45%1 to just over 18%2. Europe has seen similar falls, but there remain a...
Preventing chronic diseases through lifestyle
Chronic diseases account for the vast majority of deaths in European countries. Cardiovascular disease accounts for about 40% of deaths, with about 15% of deaths from ischaemic heart disease, 10% from strokes, and 25% from cancer. If simple lifestyle changes could reduce the risk of chronic disease, people could...
Eradicating cardiovascular diseases for good
Professor Joep Perk of Linnaeus University, and a member of the European Society of Cardiology, speaks to Editor Laura Evans about the importance of reducing cardiovascular diseases in Europe and how this can be achieved.
In Europe, cardiovascular diseases cause over 4 million deaths and over 1.9 million deaths in the European...
Alcohol-related diseases on the rise in Bradford
Figures have revealed that the rate of admissions to hospitals for alcohol-related liver disease is increasing in Bradford.
The rate of emergency admissions in the Bradford Districts Clinic Commissioning Group (CCG) area has risen from 27.6 per 100,000 GP registered patients to 30.3 at the end of March. The figures...
INSERM
Because of their size, making them comparable to a DNA molecule or a protein, one hundred to one thousand times smaller than a cell, the nanoparticles have different physical properties from those of common objects. Evolving to the same scale as the biological mechanisms of the body, they are...
Mental wellbeing significant factor to overall health
According to a Public Health England (PHE) North West Mental Wellbeing Survey, significant changes in key factors can influence mental wellbeing.
The PHE survey found that whilst there has been an increase in people within the region reporting to be in ‘very good’ health (increase of 18.2%), and more people with...
