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Successive governments’ approaches to obesity policies have destined them to fail, say researchers

19 January 2021

Government obesity policies in England over the past three decades have largely failed because of problems with implementation, lack of learning from past successes or failures, and a reliance on trying to persuade individuals to change their behaviour rather than tackling unhealthy environments.

Likelihood of severe and ‘long’ COVID may be established very early on following infection

18 January 2021

New research provides important insights into the role played by the immune system in preventing – and in some cases increasing the severity of – COVID-19 symptoms in patients. It also finds clues to why some people experience ‘long COVID’.

Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to work for everyone

11 January 2021

Mindfulness courses can reduce anxiety, depression and stress and increase mental wellbeing within most but not all non-clinical settings, say a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. They also found that mindfulness may be no better than other practices aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing.

Apathy could predict onset of dementia years before other symptoms

15 December 2020

Apathy – a lack of interest or motivation – could predict the onset of some forms of dementia many years before symptoms start, offering a ‘window of opportunity’ to treat the disease at an early stage, according to new research from a team of scientists led by Professor James Rowe at the University of Cambridge.

Creative rendition of SARS-COV-2 virus particles

Remdesivir likely to be highly effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2 for some patients

14 December 2020

The drug remdesivir is likely to be a highly effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2, according to a new study by a team of UK scientists. Writing in Nature Communications, the researchers describe giving the drug to a patient with COVID-19 and a rare immune disorder, and observing a dramatic improvement in his symptoms and the disappearance of the virus.

Scientists identify warning signs over effectiveness of HIV ‘wonder drug’ in sub-Saharan Africa

01 December 2020

Dolutegravir, the current first-line treatment for HIV, may not be as effective as hoped in sub-Saharan Africa, suggests new research published on World AIDS Day. The study finds that this so-called ‘wonder drug’ may be less effective in patients resistant to older drugs.

Drug-resistant hospital bacteria persist even after deep cleaning, genomic study reveals

26 October 2020

Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital, highlighting the challenge hospitals face in controlling infections.

‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection

23 October 2020

‘Mini-lungs’ grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals have provided a team of scientists from South Korea and the UK with important insights into how COVID-19 damages the lungs. Writing in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the researchers detail the mechanisms underlying SARS-CoV-2 infection and the early innate immune response in the lungs.

Antiretroviral therapy fails to treat one-third of HIV patients in Malawi hospital

03 September 2020

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure and drug resistance are extremely common in patients living with HIV who are admitted to hospital in Malawi, according to new research published in Lancet HIV.

Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients

02 September 2020

A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that this approach was superior to virus detection alone for diagnosing COVID-19 disease.

Articles about 'Wellcome'

Successive governments’ approaches to obesity policies have destined them to fail, say researchers

Likelihood of severe and ‘long’ COVID may be established very early on following infection

Mindfulness can improve mental health and wellbeing – but unlikely to work for everyone

Apathy could predict onset of dementia years before other symptoms

Remdesivir likely to be highly effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2 for some patients

Scientists identify warning signs over effectiveness of HIV ‘wonder drug’ in sub-Saharan Africa

Drug-resistant hospital bacteria persist even after deep cleaning, genomic study reveals

‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Antiretroviral therapy fails to treat one-third of HIV patients in Malawi hospital

Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients

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