Public health

Eight leading academic centres, including the Cambridge Institute for Public Health (CIPH), are to begin a collaboration that will play a key role in...

Study suggests that anti-inflammatory drugs could be used to treat cardiovascular disease.

A study of infant growth, tracking 2,400 babies from gestation to the age of two, has provided data of unique depth – and is already adding to our...

Cambridge-led research documents rises in HIV, heroin use, prostitution, homicides and suicides in the wake of the Greek financial crisis.

Scientists have carried out the first ever genome scan for womb cancer and discovered a genetic region that reduces risk of the disease, according to...

New research unit to focus on how to change behaviours responsible for the majority of premature deaths worldwide.

Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated...

A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia; a...