Autism spectrum disorders
Personalised wearable tech can help adults diagnosed with autism manage anxiety
Personalised wearable digital technology can help adults diagnosed with autism understand and manage their anxiety.
Aug 18, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Eating bushmeat could reduce childhood anemia in Amazon forest communities
Eating wild animals, known collectively as bushmeat or wildmeat, is associated with reduced anemia cases among children living in the Amazon rainforest, a new study reveals.
Apr 6, 2022
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Health
Why only half of healthcare workers have the flu vaccine
The low uptake of flu vaccination among medical students and doctors is influenced by social attitudes say researchers.
Sep 12, 2017
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Acoustic technique developed to detect knee osteoarthritis
A revolutionary medical technique using sound waves to identify osteoarthritis in the knee has been developed by researchers.
Oct 22, 2014
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Other
New app launched for public to help pioneering hand identification research
Scientists behind a pioneering hand-identification research programme are launching a new app and are calling on thousands of members of the public to help.
Feb 27, 2020
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Health
New study 'reimagines infertility'
New research from Lancaster University has identified the 'invisible infertile', a group of marginalized people missing from survey data sources because they do not fit neatly into popular notions of who is at risk of infertility.
Dec 7, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What bloodsucking 'kissing bugs' like to eat
Researchers have overturned a century old assumption that "kissing bugs" only feed on blood. The Latin American insects are named after their habit of night time feeding on the face of the victim, often spreading the deadly ...
Mar 15, 2016
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Neuroscience
How we learn words and sentences at the same time
How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by Lancaster University researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language.
Nov 30, 2020
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Medical research
New drug combinations raise hopes of effective, locally administered snakebite treatment
New drug combinations could protect snakebite victims from the devastating, life-changing injuries caused by toxic venom, suggests research led by Lancaster University.
Dec 14, 2023
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Health
How specialist palliative care services around the world coped in response to COVID-19
Specialist palliative care services have been flexible, highly adaptive and have embraced a low-cost "frugal innovation" model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic say researchers.
Mar 23, 2021
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