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Benefit cuts will worsen mental health crisis for low-income people

Mental health charity Mind warns that cutting benefits will deepen the mental health crisis for people on low incomes.

The feasibility of the four day working week

The idea of a four day working week has been a large talking point for months, following high profile studies and trials from companies around the world expressing the benefits for employee wellbeing and improved work/life balance.

NHS suggests stronger mental health safeguards on high street botox

Superdrug will introduce new mental health checks for customers who want to undergo cosmetic procedures, like high street botox.

Essure implant vs. women

The Essure implant method of female sterilisation caused atleast 20,000 documented painful experiences, but how did the situation get so far?

Data gives helping hand to UK government and troubled families

When the Troubled Families program was launched in 2011 by the UK coalition government, there were four key measures by which it would be judged.

GDPR in biobanking for precision medicine research: The challenges

R.T. Lawlor, Z. Kozlakidis and M. Bledsoe from the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories note challenges in GDPR in biobanking for precision medicine.

Health Secretary searches for HealthTech at Paris summit

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has traveled to Paris to attend the GovTech summit in order to find revolutionary technologies to help improve the NHS.

Bullying and harassment in the NHS could be costing billions

Bullying and harassment in the NHS in England could be costing the organization over £2 billion per year, according to new research published in Public Money & Management

Rebuilding tissues inside the human body

Scientific progress to grow new tissues outside of the human body led to first market approvals of living tissue-engineered implants The creation of living tissues...

Medicinal cannabis-based products to be made available on prescription

Home secretary, Sajid Javid has announced that medicinal products that derive from cannabis will be made available on prescription by Autumn.

Type 2 diabetes: Progressing novel scientific insight into new medicine

The gap in the long process of progressing a novel scientific insight into a new medicine is often called “the valley of death”. Read below to understand how the strategic alliance between University of Oxford and Novo Nordisk is aiming to combat type 2 diabetes by bridging this gap.

How right-sizing regulation can optimise plant protection

Greg Rosenthal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service explains how right-sizing regulation can optimise plant protection

Understanding stroke in the UK

Esmee Russell from the Stroke Association reveals the extent of stroke as a major health issue in the UK today

Diet and health: A complex relationship

Senior Scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), Dr Lucy Chambers, offers food for thought, by detailing the complex relationship between diet and health

New treatments for spinal muscular atrophy

SMA Europe e.V. discusses how new treatments for spinal muscular atrophy open up new challenges for European and national institutions

Malaria kills over 1000 people a day – technology and transparency offer the solutions

Peter Sherratt, executive chairman of AMF explains how novel ideas are being applied to a well-tested intervention in the battle against malaria

The role of physiotherapy for Parkinson’s

Writing on behalf of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Dr. Bhanu Ramaswamy highlights how physiotherapy can help manage the symptoms of Parkinson’s

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