global health

Graham Ladds, lecturer in pharmacology, discusses the controversy around a group of drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes.

Patients with the most dangerous type of high blood pressure will be able to receive far more effective treatment after Cambridge-led research...

An international consortium of laboratories worldwide that are studying the differences among dengue viruses has shown that while the long-held view...

The University of Cambridge’s determination to enhance research capacity across Africa, and to engage in collaborative research with African partners...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, have shown how a radioactive agent developed in the...

Life expectancy for people with a history of both cardiovascular disease and diabetes is substantially lower than for people with just one condition...

Pollution causes 30,000 people a year in the UK to die early yet most of us are unaware of the degree to which we are exposed to it. Low-cost...

A dramatic video has captured the behaviour of cytotoxic T cells – the body’s ‘serial killers’ – as they hunt down and eliminate cancer cells before...