This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47471142 By BBC Health news GPs are urging women not to be alarmed by research linking long-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use with a small increased risk of Alzheimer’s. They say HRT is an effective and safe treatment for most women with menopause symptoms and the risk is “extremely low”….
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47421855 By BBC Health news A UK patient’s HIV has become “undetectable” following a stem cell transplant – in only the second case of its kind, doctors report in Nature. The London patient, who was being treated for cancer, has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/mar/03/alzheimers-disease-immune-system-immunotherapy-vaccine By Philip Ball Incurable and increasingly prevalent, Alzheimer’s has long puzzled the research community. Now scientists believe the human body may be the best line of defence Half a million people in the UK are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia. And while the risks generally increase with…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/27/parkinsons-patients-tube-implant-study-drug-delivery-system By Press Association New drug-delivery system could also be used to treat brain tumours and strokes People with Parkinson’s disease have been fitted with an implant that can deliver drugs directly to the brain through a port in the side of their head, in a pioneering study. The device was…
This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/the-10-minute-test-for-cancer-pioneering-methods-blood-test-detection-tumours-lung-breast-colorectal By Zoë Corbyn at the Guardian Pioneering methods are being developed to find traces of tumours quickly in small blood samples About seven years ago, researchers at the US DNA sequencing company Illumina started to notice something odd. A new blood test it ran on 125,000 expectant mothers looking for genetic abnormalities such as…