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Home 2023 January

Heavy gaming is not linked to mental health issues in the majority of teenagers

As the parent or grandparent of a teenager, would you ever be convinced that gaming for several hours a day would be completely harmless? No, I thought you wouldn’t. Well, consider the OxWell Student Survey, one of the largest school surveys of … Read More

Treatment hope as study shows how different illnesses are linked

We have a problem. More and more people are living with several medical conditions, sometimes many. But medical education and training, delivery, guidelines and even research, focus on one disease at a time. There’s a mismatch between what ­patients experience … Read More

How lab-grown ‘mini eyes’ could finally help those with sight and hearing loss

We now find ourselves in the age of lab-grown mini organs. Recently I wrote about these mini brains playing tennis. Now it’s lab-grown mini eyes which researchers hope will help them ­look at how blindness develops. The 3D ‘mini eyes’, known as ­organoids, were … Read More

Electrical signals in breasts could help us understand why cancer spreads – and stop it

This may sound too strange to be true, but breast cells have their own electrical language. Yes, honestly. A report I read contained a video of breast cancer cells twinkling away like the evening sky on a starry night. What’s … Read More

Scientists find leprosy bacteria could be force for good – by regrowing damage livers

Leprosy is an ancient infection, common in biblical times, ­causing such disfiguring disease that sufferers were exiled to ­isolated colonies miles from anywhere. But now it seems that the ­destructive bacterium that causes it, ­mycobacterium leprae, could be a force … Read More

Lab-grown blood cells provide fresh hope for patients needing transfusions

Recently, the NHS called on ­surgeons to delay carrying out major ­surgery because blood banks were too low to service any more operations. So this new ­research from Bristol University where lab-grown red blood cells have been transfused into another … Read More

Diet in pregnancy is key to a child’s future health and identifying obesity risk

A useful mantra for pregnant women is “your baby is what you eat”. And a new study brings this home, led by ­researchers at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley, US. They’ve shown, as … Read More

Genes linked to dyslexia singled out by scientists will help our understanding

Dyslexia is known to run in families – partly because of genetic factors – but until now little was known about the specific genes that relate to the risk of it developing. So if I were a parent, anxious and … Read More

New testing of protein to tell surgeons best time for heart operation is excellent news

Heart surgery is tricky and it’s often hard to know when it’s the best time for the op. Any biomarker that could signal the body is in optimum condition would be a major step forward. So it’s excellent news that doctors … Read More

Hope for bespoke cancer treatment after lab grows bone marrow cells

Destruction of the bone marrow, where all our blood cells are formed, is a perpetual hazard of chemotherapy. That’s why your white blood cells are constantly checked while you’re on it. When their levels fall too far it means your bone … Read More

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