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Diabetics’ heart attack risk can be reduced, research finds

22 May 2009

People with diabetes who maintain intensive, low blood sugar levels are significantly less likely to suffer heart attacks and coronary heart disease...

Research sheds new light on why pancreatic cancer drugs fail

21 May 2009

An international team of scientists, led by researchers based at the Cambridge Research Institute, have discovered a new mechanism that may explain...

Improving cognitive ability through education and health may cut dementia risk

27 Mar 2009

Improvements in education and health could reduce the number of elderly people who suffer from dementia, according to the first study in England to...

New research contributes to pedigree dogs debate

13 Feb 2009

Urgent action is needed to safeguard the welfare of pedigree dogs, according to a new independent scientific report commissioned by the RSPCA and led...

New hopes for the nervous system: Parkinson's disease

01 Jan 2009

The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.

Anti-ageing for arteries

26 Sep 2008

New research has revealed that statins can prevent the premature ageing of arteries in patients in the advanced stages of heart disease - suggesting...