A researcher developing a miracle microchip that can identify cancer cells and predict how they will act has been awarded a EUR 2 million grant to develop the tech. The cash injection is to be used to adapt the technology to customise immunotherapies tailored to treat individual patients. Physicist Dr…
These images showing a cat in the intensive care unit of an Ecuadorian hospital have caused outrage. The images were reportedly filmed in the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo public hospital, in the coastal city of Guayaquil, in western-central Ecuador. They have been confirmed as genuine by the hospital, according to local…
New research has found a link between dementia and schizophrenia that has confirmed a theory that is more than 120 years old and was previously refuted by the scientific community. ‘Dementia praecox’ is a term that was popularised in 1899 by Emil Kraepelin, founder of the psychiatric hospital of the…
Scientists in Germany have detected microplastic particles in human liver samples for the first time. Researchers at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf took liver, kidney and spleen samples from six cirrhosis patients and five individuals who do not suffer from the disease. Microplastic concentrations in all six cirrhotic liver tissues…
Poor women suffer heart attacks almost six years earlier than rich women, a new study has revealed. Scientists behind the research say women on low incomes lack the health choices and lifestyle care available to their richer neighbours. Researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences studied the socio-economic background of…
Scientists have urged patients and healthcare staff to be more proactive about addressing mental health concerns as a new study identifies a higher psychiatric disorder risk of people suffering from COVID-19. Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) in the United States used data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)…
Nano-sized robots manipulated using a magnetic field can help kill bacteria deep inside teeth to ensure the success of root canal treatments after the living tissue has been removed. Root canal treatments are routinely carried out to treat tooth infections in millions of patients. The procedure involves removing the infected…
German researchers have discovered that paralysed stroke victims could recover significant mobility after receiving electric current to their brains Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, the University Medical Centre Halle, and the Charite-Universitaetsmedizin in Germany's capital, Berlin, revealed that such…
A Turkish nurse faces 241 years and six months behind bars for pretending to jab patients in return for cash so they could obtain COVID-19 vaccination certificates. Rukiye Kizilirmak Yuceturk, age not stated, was working as a nurse at a training and research hospital in the western Turkish city of…
The serial-killer nurse dubbed the 'Angel of Death', who was jailed for life for murdering 85 patients, is set to testify in a trial against seven of his colleagues, who stand accused of looking the other way. The trial against seven of Niels Hoegel's colleagues started in the Weser-Ems-Halle, a…