Assessing how and why people age differently has long eluded doctors and scientists, particularly when there are no obvious explanations such as illness or history of injury.But a team of researchers ...

Twenty graduates are celebrating after becoming the first group of doctors in the UK to qualify through part-time study. The University of Edinburgh group has completed an “innovative” five-year ...

Ministers urged to provide more graduate training slots for UK medical students - The BMA said 20,000 medical graduates will miss out on further training due to a lack of slots as international ...

Recent objective evidence from England and the USA suggests that low physical activity is the most prevalent chronic disease risk factor, with 95% of the adult population not meeting the modest ...

The University of Birmingham has been training Physician Associates (formerly Physician Assistants) since January 2008. As one of the longest running programmes in the country, we are delighted to ...

Paediatric infectionThis short course synthesises core scientific knowledge with practical clinical scenarios to encourage a deeper understanding of infectious diseases in neonates and children, and ...

Medical engineering is a multidisciplinary STEM field that integrates knowledge across engineering, materials science, human biology and medicine to develop new devices, algorithms, processes and ...

The WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on 11 March 2020.1 On 20 and 23 March 2020, faced with a rising number of both COVID-19 cases and deaths, the UK government imposed a range of measures in ...

This course aims to give an overview and introduction to the major qualitative research methods based in the social sciences as used in health services, public health and other health-related research ...

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First, I think we will start to better quantify how much food-related disease costs. Because if you had a company generating the kind of profits that could offset food-related disease, it would be a ...

NHS England and NICE will continue to work in partnership as genomic medicine advances and this pathway evolves. Guiding principles The 8 principles guiding the NHS England and NICE genomic testing ...