Research offers hope
There is hope in the battle against drug-resistant drugs, though. For example, a newly discovered antibiotic, produced by bacteria from a cystic fibrosis patient, could be used to treat cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB),...
Research deepens understanding of malaria parasite
Science carried out in Nottingham helped to form the foundation for the latest breakthrough in the global fight against malaria.
Researchers in the University of Nottingham’s School of Life Sciences were responsible for the identification...
Former Prime Minister takes on key Dementia research role
Former Prime Minister David Cameron has become the new President of Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity.
Mr Cameron made dementia a major focus of his time in office, launching the Prime...
Researchers are making great strides
We have made great strides in the fight against heart disease over the past 50 years. Since 1961, when the British Heart Foundation was established, the annual number of deaths from CVD in the...
Hope as research unlocks the secrets of heart disease
By Frances Griss
Since the beginning of the 1960s, deaths from heart disease in the UK have halved so that today only 26% of people have a cause of death attributable to the condition, compared with...
Surface research could help control infection
Another front in the war against infection is the introduction of antimicrobial surfaces into hospitals.
By making the environment more hostile to pathogens such as Clostridium difficile and Staphilococcus aureus there will be less...
Recruiting the right people for medical research
Clinical research is making massive strides in the way we treat illnesses, extending length and quality of life for the patient. Making the breakthroughs possible are medical researchers who rely heavily on the willingness...