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International Advisory Board Members Top row l-r, Dr Victor J Dzau, Dame Jenny Harries, Professor David Bates, Bottom row l-r Professor Ajay Singh, Professor Paul Little and Dr Mairi Gibbs,

International Advisory Board to strengthen global leadership in primary care

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences announces International Advisory Board to advance its Strategy 2025–2030 and global collaboration

Excess weight in early adulthood linked to higher risk of premature death

A new study by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Population Health and in China has shown that entering adulthood with a healthy body weight is associated with a substantially lower risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory disease. The study of approximately half a million Chinese adults is published in Science Bulletin.

Largest study of vegetarian diets and cancer shows lower risk of five cancers

The largest ever study of non-meat diets and cancer risk has found that vegetarian diets are associated with lower risks of several cancers ‒ breast, prostate, kidney and pancreatic cancers, and multiple myeloma ‒ but a higher risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.

A horizontal image of a young male doctor sitting chatting to his patient. They are in a typically British doctor's practice chatting together, while he shows his patient her test results on the digital tablet.

New study questions the evidence behind behaviour-change communication guidance for GPs

Advice on how general practice staff should talk to adult patients about behaviour change is common, but new research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences found that this behaviour-change communication guidance for general practice is rarely clearly substantiated with relevant evidence.

The figure shows blood vessels (in red) and added astrocyte support cells (in yellow). Astrocytes were cultured with neuronal progenitor cells and then implanted into the murine cerebral cortex.

Study reveals unexpected Astrocyte enlargement enhances brain repair after transplantation

Researchers have uncovered a surprising and potentially transformative finding in the field of regenerative neuroscience: xenotransplanted mouse astrocytes dramatically enlarge following implantation into the injured brain, a response that was not anticipated and that may play a critical role in improving neural repair.

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