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antibiotic resistant MRSA

Antibiotic-resistant MRSA can be transmitted from pigs to humans

Research from the University of Cambridge has discovered an antibiotic-resistant MRSA strain that can be transmitted from infected pigs to humans. The University of Cambridge...
Could an intermittent fasting diet heal nerve damage?

Could an intermittent fasting diet heal nerve damage?

New research finds that an intermittent fasting diet changes gut bacteria activity in mice, increasing the ability to recover from nerve damage. Imperial College London...
Food allergies in children can be reduced by early food introduction

Food allergies in children can be mitigated by early food introduction

Infants consuming peanut, milk, wheat, and egg from three months old had a lower risk of developing a food allergy at three years old. Researchers...
health data

A European health data ecosystem can unlock personalised healthcare

Oliver Bleck discusses the rise of platform ecosystems in healthcare, the value of personalised healthcare and the need for an agile environment to support...
Smart global healthcare and the future of MedTech

Smart global healthcare and the future of MedTech

The future of MedTech and healthcare is in our hands and in our homes, writes Angelica Kohlmann, Founder of Bloom Diagnostics. Whether it’s our phones,...
cancer care

How can cancer care be more efficient?

All.Can International has recently published a comprehensive study exploring how to enhance the efficiency of cancer care. Inefficient cancer care is a leading factor in...
Chemically modified plant compounds fight against hepatitis E virus

Chemically modified plant compounds fight against hepatitis E virus

In a search to find an effective drug for the hepatitis E virus, researchers discover a plant compound that prevents the replication of viruses. Researchers...
Parkinson’s disease life expectancy

Parkinson’s disease life expectancy determined by genetic mutations

A research team based in France has identified new gene variants that may predict Parkinson’s disease life expectancy. The groundbreaking discovery may help to...
What is mindfulness and how it can help your mental wellbeing

What is mindfulness and how it can help your mental wellbeing

Everything you need to know about mindfulness, best techniques and how to uplift your life through improved mental wellbeing. Mindfulness is taking the world by...
Bite Back 2030: ‘The food system is rigged against us’

Bite Back 2030: ‘The food system is rigged against us’

The young campaigners of Bite Back 2030 are calling for more to be done to protect children from diet-related ill-health. Here, they tell Health...
what is polio

What is polio? Everything you NEED to know

What is polio? Health Europa brings you everything you need to know about the disease, its origins, symptoms, how you can catch it, and...
Rebuilding the healthcare system in Ukraine and addressing other crises

Project HOPE: Rebuilding the healthcare system in Ukraine

President and CEO of Project HOPE, Rabih Torbay, shares his experience of being on the ground in Ukraine and the many challenges the healthcare...
Covid vaccines estimated to have prevented 19.8 million deaths in the first year

Covid vaccines prevented 19.8 million deaths in the first year

A modelling study has quantified that Covid vaccines have prevented 19.8 million out of a potential 31.4 million deaths in the first year. In the...
antimicrobial resistance

Advancing nurses’ expertise on antimicrobial resistance

Ber Oomen, executive director of the European Specialist Nurses Organisation spoke to Health Europa about the organisation’s AMR, vaccination and infection prevention focus group and...
spinal fusion surgery

Groundbreaking smart implant monitors healing from spinal fusion surgery

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have developed a cutting-edge smart implant to monitor a patient's progress from spinal fusion...
risk genes for Alzheimer's disease

International study identifies new risk genes for Alzheimer’s disease

Professor Jean-Charles Lambert, who spearheaded the most extensive ever genome-wide association study for Alzheimer's disease, outlines how the project has discovered 75 risk genes...
typhoid fever

Typhoid fever bacteria increasingly resistant to antibiotics

Stanford University-led research has identified that bacteria causing typhoid fever are becoming progressively resistant to the antibiotics used to combat the infection. The novel research...
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Reducing air pollution supports brain development in children

A portable air cleaner can reduce the negative effects of air pollution on brain development in children. A new study by Simon Fraser University researchers,...
Diversifying care delivery with digital healthcare technology

Diversifying care delivery with digital healthcare technology

Badri Wadawadigi discusses how current and emerging digital healthcare technologies are being optimised to improve care delivery and the importance of tailoring solutions to...
travel therapy

Could travel therapy be an effective treatment for dementia?

Innovative research emerging from Edith Cowan University (ECU) indicates that travel therapy could have a range of health benefits for patients with dementia and...

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