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Sleep Chemistry and What Makes Us Sleep
18 March, 2019Sleep Chemistry and what makes us sleep has always fascinated me. Here we discuss the role of melatonin and adenosine.
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Osteoarthritis; Could We Redesign the Knee Joint to Make It Better?
7 March, 2019Our Knee and Hips Joints are a common focus for osteoarthritis. However there are other evolutionary strategies in nature that are better than ours!
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Alzheimer’s Disease and New Research Initiatives
24 February, 2019Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia; Present estimates suggest that there are about 850,000 cases in the UK, although with the current population age profile, this will rise to two million by 2051.
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Flu; Why is it Seasonal?
14 February, 2019As we speak there has been at least three main mechanisms of action fir the transmission of flu in winter
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Flu Vaccine; Why is it important?
7 February, 2019Most flu vaccines are trivalent (or contain three viruses e.g. two Type A and a Type B) or quadrivalent (contain four viruses and usually two of each type).
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Antibiotic Resistance and the Challenges that lie Ahead
29 January, 2019The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimate that antibiotic resistance could cause 2.4m deaths in the EU, US and Australia by 2050
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The Controversy of Corticosteroids Injections for the Treatment of Joint Pain
14 January, 2019The actual evidence for the use of Corticosteroids for arthritic pain is controversial and new evidence suggests they may even acclerate joint destruction
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