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Regular exercise throughout life slows down body’s ageing process
New research from the University of Birmingham and King’s College London, UK, has found that a lifetime of regular exercise slows the down the...
Diagnosing mucopolysaccharidoses diseases in young people
This booklet was written by Professor Dr Francois Eyskens of the PCMA vzw, the metabolic laboratory, and the Center of Inherited Metabolic Diseases at...
A promising new therapeutic approach to spinal cord injuries
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, have been able to improve functional recovery following spinal cord injuries in mice, paving the way for new therapeutic...
Personalising cancer treatment with lab-grown mini tumours
A major new study on bowel and stomach tumours has reported that replicating a patient’s tumour in the lab to create mini tumours and...
Asthma and issues
Researchers at the University Hospital Basel discuss developments in the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and allergies
Asthma is defined as a chronic inflammatory disease...
Aarhus University shares the merits of computational medicine
The Health Technology Program at Aarhus University applies computational biology to investigate the heterogeneity of tumours
Increasing computational power combined with enhanced access to imaging...
Obesity – feeding the body or the mind?
Professor Dr Kerstin M Oltmanns of the University of Lübeck opens a new perspective on the epidemic of 2.2 billion overweight people
Obesity is a...
Past experiences shape future influenza vaccine response
New research from the University of Chicago, US, has shown that immune history with the flu has a direct influence on a person’s response...
The origins of asthma
Led by Professor Hans Bisgaard, the COPSAC research unit focuses on phenotyping children and their environmental exposures to study asthma and other chronic inflammatory...
New vaccine which eliminates tumours to start human clinical trial
A new injection that successfully eliminated tumours in mice is to begin its human clinical trial and be tested on lymphoma patients.
The study from...
Innovating wound care
Professor Michael Clark, Maureen Fallon and Professor Keith Harding, of the Welsh Wound Innovation Centre, advocate a system approach to value-based wound care.
The impact...
The hidden secrets of hepatitis C
A group effort between physicists, biologists and engineers has led to a novel method to analyse a key protein in hepatitis C virus. Collaborators...
Can we end paralysis?
Corinne Jeanmaire, of the endParalysis foundation, says a cure for spinal cord injury is possible, but it will take time, resources and a smart...
It’s not all about inflammation
EU programmes at the Lund University Diabetes Centre, Sweden, provide novel insights into the mechanisms behind the development of cardiovascular disease in diabetes
Cardiovascular disease...
‘Western diet’ makes body’s defences more aggressive
Research from the University of Bonn, Germany, has found that high fat and sugar diets can make the immune system react like it’s fighting...
A lesson on lipoedema
Sharie Fetzer, the chair of Lipoedema UK, tells Health Europa Quarterly about the charity’s efforts to raise awareness and boost diagnosis of the little-known...
Flu-like virus being used to fight incurable brain cancer
UK scientists are optimistic that using a common flu-like virus is the next best treatment to help tackle incurable brain cancer.
According to recent studies,...
Antibiotic resistance: ‘Sleeping’ bacteria identified
‘Sleeper cells’, which can survive doses of antibiotics and lie resting in a dormant state, may hold a key to understanding antibiotic resistance, research...
A new approach to healing
Panu Lahtinen, a senior scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, discusses his innovative wound care solution.
By 2020 the global wound care...
Major cause of dementia discovered
An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of a major cause of dementia, with important implications for possible treatment and diagnosis.
Professor Garth...
