Archive: 26/11/2015

SNP location helps predict disease aetiology

Nature Review Genetics has highlighted work by Milner Centre PhD student XianMing Wu.

Nov 26, 2015

Hospital records key to preventing child injuries: study

Almost 50 per cent of child injures requiring treatment in emergency departments are linked to consumer products, but a lack of detailed hospital records is restricting child safety experts from identifying if a product fault ...

Nov 26, 2015

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Annual HIV infection record for Europe in 2014

Europe registered a record number of HIV infections in 2014, driven by cases in Russia and immigrants who acquired the virus after arrival, the EU and the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Nov 26, 2015

'Fear of missing out' linked to alcohol harm in students

University students who have a greater "fear of missing out" (FoMO) are much more likely to experience negative consequences from drinking alcohol, new University of Otago psychology research suggests.

Nov 26, 2015

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Sugar-free drinks and lollies are bad news for teeth say dentists

Scientists at the University of Melbourne's Oral Health Cooperative Research Centre have warned about the damage sugar-free drinks can do to tooth enamel.

Nov 26, 2015

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Study tests method to boost immune system response to inoperable cervical cancer

The University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences, along with the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lennox, is one of three study sites in the United States ...

Nov 26, 2015

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French give nod to plain cigarette packaging

Cigarettes will have to be sold in plain packaging in France from next year after the French parliament narrowly voted through a proposal which has drawn the ire of tobacconists.

Nov 26, 2015