The teenage cousins living with inoperable brain tumours
Nichola RutherfordBBC Scotland NewsEmma ChristieHazel Dempster and Lachlan Lindsay both have brain tumoursWhen Lachlan Lindsay was eight, he was diagnosed ...
Antidiabetic Drugs May Improve Outcomes in Prostate Cancer
SGLT2 inhibitors may delay disease progression in men with prostate cancer undergoing hormone therapy. Medscape Medical News Source link : ...
‘A never-ending queue’ – hospitals where waits are getting worse
Nick Triggle,Health correspondentandDaniel Wainwright,BBC VerifyGetty ImagesNearly a quarter of hospitals in England have seen waiting times worsen since the government ...
Food Companies Are Targeting Users of Weight-Loss Drugs With ‘GLP-1 Friendly’ Labels
(MedPage Today) -- Meals and snacks with "GLP-1 Friendly" labels on the packaging are becoming more common in U.S. supermarkets ...
Pharmacies Demand Payback for COVID Booking Errors
Pharmacy leaders in England are calling for millions in compensation after NHS booking failures left staff facing abuse and wasted ...
Does AI ‘De-skill’ Doctors?
(MedPage Today) -- I recently wrote about an MIT Media Lab study that raised concerns about "cognitive debt," a term ...
England Backs Wider Use of Abiraterone for Prostate Cancer
Thousands of men with high-risk prostate cancer that has not spread will gain access to abiraterone after NHS England approved ...
CRISPR can rewrite our genetic code: Best ideas of the century
“The pain was like being struck by lightning and hit by a freight train all at the same time,” Victoria ...
Realising the importance of our microbiome: Best ideas of the century
“The gut microbiome has transformed our understanding of human health,” says Tim Spector at King’s College London, co-founder of the Zoe nutrition ...
Smartphones (yes, really): Best ideas of the century
“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything,” said Steve Jobs at an Apple launch ...
Crowdsourcing Wikipedia’s encyclopedia: Best ideas of the century
Hostility and discord are hallmarks of the internet more so than collaboration and cooperation. So the fact that a public ...
Our solar system is extremely weird: Best ideas of the century
The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began ...
Gigafactories bring the electrification of everything: Best ideas of the century
Batteries and the harnessing of solar energy have been around in one form or another for centuries, but only in ...
How fear drastically shapes ecosystems: Best ideas of the century
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the effects were dramatic. Among other things, elk numbers fell far more ...
The totemic 1.5°C climate target: Best ideas of the century
In the first decade of the 21st century, most scientists and policy-makers were focused on 2°C as being the highest “safe” threshold for ...
Revealing the epic story of ancient humans: Best ideas of the century
What has happened in the field of human evolution over the past 25 years can be summed up in one ...
End-to-end encryption: Best ideas of the century
We all keep secrets. Whether you are trying to protect messages to loved ones, company accounts or vital state intelligence, ...
The hidden power of epigenetics: Best ideas of the century
At the dawn of the millennium, the number of genes in our genome was still up for discussion. When we finally ...
Transformer architecture, the one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century
Today’s most powerful AI tools – the ones that can summarise documents, generate artwork, write poetry or predict how incredibly ...
Neurodiversity reveals there’s no such thing as a normal brain: Best ideas of the century
Once upon a time, science worked on the assumption that there was such a thing as a “normal” brain that ...
