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Admission time for heart attacks does not appear to increase risk of dying in hospital.
Admission to hospital with a heart attack out of normal working hours does not appear to increase a patient’s chance of dying in hospital, according to a study of over 600,000 patient cases.
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Research grant will aid in understanding microbiomes' roles in bowel cancers
Professor Philip Quirke, from the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ Institute for Medical Research at St James’s, has been awarded nearly £2.5 million from Cancer Research UK, as part of their new Grand Challenge funding.
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ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ research could see new approach to treating heart attack patients
A British Heart foundation grant to Dr Erica Dall’Armellina at the ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ, is allowing her to continue the study of patients who have had heart attacks.
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ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ academics help British Nutrition Foundation develop a guide to portion control
Two ÂÌñ»»ÆÞ researchers have been consulted on a new British Nutrition Foundation project to help guide people to healthly food portion sizes.
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Could cancer anti-sickness drug end the misery for IBS patients?
Could a commonly-prescribed anti-sickness drug be the answer for the 1.3 million people in the UK who suffer the pain and misery of irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D)?