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An Interview with Peter Storey, Director of Communications at Kidney Research UK for World Kidney Day 2018

Peter Storey, Director of Communications at Kidney Research UK, kindly took the time to speak to the EMJ about a number of pertinent areas of kidney…

Charity Finds 30% More Women Living with Undiagnosed Leprosy

Ahead of International Women’s Day, 8th March, UK-based leprosy charity, Lepra has published new research which found 30% more women living with leprosy…

International Women’s Day – 8th March 2018

One hundred years ago in the UK, women over the age of 30 who were married to men with land, or who owned land themselves, were granted the right to vote…

Women in Research: Progress Has Been Made but We Still Have a Long Way to Go to Fill the Gender Gap

Until the 1970s, science was a male-dominated field and the opportunities for women to conduct biomedical research were limited. Marie Skłodowska Curie…

Women in Pharma

This year marks 100 years since women gained the right to vote in the UK; therefore, to celebrate this, and in honour of International Women’s Day, we…

New Method Found to Identify Younger People at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s

Alzheimer’s disease could potentially be identified early by determining the condition’s polygenic risk score in adults in their 50s, according to…

New Knowledge of How Normal Blood Glucose Levels are Maintained

Maintenance of normal blood glucose levels is primarily the responsibility of pancreatic islets, according to research from the Karolinska Institutet…

Study Shows Benefits of Resistance Training in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

Resistance training should be included in exercise programmes for patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study from the…

Fresh Understanding of Mechanisms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

New insights into the mechanisms that cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been revealed by researchers from Stanford University, California…

Major Obstacle to Adoptive Cell Transfer Therapy Could be Overcome

A novel cancer treatment could be a step closer to being made available for patients following the results of a study that showed that altering a…