Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Soothing image app helps emotional wellbeing
A bank of comforting images to improve the wellbeing of the carers of people affected by dementia has been developed by Edinburgh researchers.
Nov 4, 2020
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Neuroscience
Swipe right to help tackle brain disease
An app to help scientists sort through thousands of images of brain scans to use in large-scale studies of brain disease has been created by a group of staff and students from Cardiff University.
Nov 3, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Canada extends international travellers ban
Canada on Friday extended a restriction on non-essential international entries until the end of November as COVID-19 cases rise, while easing quarantine rules for some cut-off Canada-US border communities.
Oct 31, 2020
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Ophthalmology
Researchers use new techniques to make films more accessible to visually impaired audiences
Researchers have used new techniques to make films more accessible to visually impaired audiences.
Oct 30, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Finland's Covid sniffer dog trial 'extremely positive': researchers
A pilot project using sniffer dogs to provide instant and pain-free coronavirus testing at Helsinki airport has shown promising early results and proven popular with travellers, researchers said on Wednesday.
Oct 28, 2020
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Neuroscience
A step closer to mapping the rodent brain
The rodent Hippocampal formation is one of the most exhaustively studied regions in the mammalian brain but until now, there has not been a comprehensive knowledge base of its synaptic physiology. In a front cover paper published ...
Oct 26, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How a cloud-based solution is transforming care for people with cystic fibrosis
Sitting beside their son during one of his weeks-long hospital stays over the Christmas holidays a few years ago, David and Kirsty Hill had plenty of time to worry and think.
Oct 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Low risk of COVID infection on planes if masks worn: US military
The risk of being infected with the coronavirus on an airliner is very low if passengers wear masks, according to a study carried out aboard Boeing long-haul jets by the US military and published Thursday.
Oct 16, 2020
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Health informatics
Researchers driving around Seattle to track COVID-19 response over time
As the city of Seattle shut down in March 2020 to try to slow the spread of COVID-19, a group of University of Washington researchers got to work.
Oct 1, 2020
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Health
Smoke alarms can save lives in informal settlements, if the design is right
Research published by the Medical Research Council in 2009 found that 300-400 fire-related deaths are reported annually in South Africa's Western Cape province. This study also found that of South Africa's metropolitan centers, ...
Sep 29, 2020
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