Category: Medical

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Bedphones to fight off poor sleep?

Listening to music in bed is something people regularly do as a means of getting to sleep in their beds from time4sleep.co.uk and other providers, and a new invention is only happy to build on this idea with a fantastic new creation. Bedphones, the new offering, were conceived by product developer Eric Dubs, who is [...]

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Bionic ear developer to lead hearing project

Professor Graeme Clark, the man behind the bionic ear, has been given a new challenge in leading a pioneering project designed to develop new kinds of hearing implants. The research could lead to new and more cost-effective treatments for people who use hearing aids, such as those available from www.amplifon.co.uk. Next month, Professor Clark will [...]

Alcohol causes 13,000 cancer cases per annum, report finds

Alcohol has always been associated with a number of negative health issues, but it has recently been conclusively linked to another. A study, co-funded by Cancer Research UK, discovered that it causes around 13,000 cases of cancer a year in Britain. The European study was published in the British Medical Journal and backs past research [...]

Diabetes: Artificial pancreas ‘can prevent hypoglycaemia’

A new study has shown that an artificial pancreas can help prevent hypoglycaemia happening when glucose levels fall too low for people facing type 1 diabetes. Researchers at the University of Cambridge were funded by Diabetes UK to monitor how well artificial pancreases worked for a men and women between the ages of 18 and [...]