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Reducing fat in the diabetic heart could improve recovery from heart attack
3 August 2021
New research from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics has shown that in type 2 diabetes an overload of lipids reduces the heart’s ability to generate energy during a heart attack, decreasing chances of recovery.
Brain cortex may regulate the need for sleep
3 August 2021
Why we sleep, and the processes behind sleep, are amongst the most interesting questions in modern neuroscience.
New data show rise in hospital admissions for unvaccinated pregnant women
3 August 2021
The Chief Midwifery Officer for England will urge expectant mums to have their COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible. This follows a worrying rise in unvaccinated women being admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19, and evidence that the Delta variant poses a significantly greater risk than all previous strains.
Cooking with coal or wood associated with increased risk of major eye diseases
3 August 2021
A study involving nearly half a million people in China reveals a clear link between cooking with wood or coal, and an increased risk of major eye diseases that can lead to blindness, according to a report published today in PLOS Medicine.
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