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Chronic diseases can be defined as those that persist for a long period of time, in most cases causing the sufferer health issues for longer than a period of 3 months. Chronic diseases in most cases cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear.

Some of the most common chronic diseases include Asthma, Coronary Artery Disease, Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity and Osteoporosis to name but a few.

Leading oncology professionals urge governments to reduce cancer deaths

Leading oncology professionals urge governments to reduce cancer deaths

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have issued a joint statement calling on governments to...
New gene therapy could treat children with Hunter disease

New gene therapy could treat children with Hunter disease

A new stem cell gene therapy approach has been developed by a team at the University of Manchester, UK, which could help treat children...
Obstructive sleep apnoea linked with brain changes seen in dementia

Obstructive sleep apnoea linked with brain changes seen in dementia

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with changes to the structure of the brain that are also seen in the early stages of dementia,...
An over 40-hour working week linked to risk of diabetes in women

An over 40-hour working week linked to risk of diabetes in women

New research suggests that working over 40 hours a week creates a greater risk of diabetes in women, advising that 30-40 hours may help...
Diagnosis and delay: an approach to addressing diabetic kidney disease

Diagnosis and delay: an approach to addressing diabetic kidney disease

Health Europa takes a look at the causes, diagnosis and treatment of diabetic kidney disease and investigates what is being done at a European...
What are the highest risk symptoms showing signs of testicular cancer?

What are the highest risk symptoms showing signs of testicular cancer?

A new study from the University of Exeter Medical School, UK, has helped identify the highest risk symptoms that can help indicate signs of...
Cells working together fuel aggressive childhood brain tumour

Cells working together fuel aggressive childhood brain tumour

Cancerous cells in an aggressive type of childhood brain tumour have been discovered working together to infiltrate the brain, which could lead to much-needed...
Improving the efficiency of chemotherapy with a new molecule

Improving the efficiency of chemotherapy with a new molecule

Researchers from the CNRS and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, have demonstrated that methiothepin, a small molecule, can improve the efficiency of chemotherapy by...
Mapping immune signalling

Mapping immune signalling

Anders Linden on the mapping of immune signalling via the cytokine interleukin-26 to identify novel diagnostic and therapeutic targets in COPD. In the research group...
Too much blood pressure medication negatively affects older patients

Too much blood pressure medication negatively affects older patients

Old and frail patients are at an increased risk of mortality and memory issues if their blood pressure medication lowers their blood pressure too...
New therapy developed to treat lysosomal storage disease

New therapy developed to treat lysosomal storage disease

Scientists at the University of Manchester, UK, have developed a new gene therapy that will hopefully be used to treat children with Sanfilippo, a...
AI could be set to improve prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment

AI could be set to improve prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment

Data-driven artificial intelligence (AI) could help improve prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, according to researchers at Sweden’s Science for Life Laboratory. Cancer tumours are all...
Professor Mel Greaves recognised for work in childhood cancer research

Professor Mel Greaves recognised for work in childhood cancer research

Professor Mel Greaves, of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, has been awarded the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA,...
A new type of small-cell lung cancer has been discovered

A new type of small-cell lung cancer has been discovered

Researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the USA have discovered a new kind of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), which is going to help...
Diabetes UK welcomes government’s Childhood Obesity Plan Chapter 2

Diabetes UK welcomes government’s Childhood Obesity Plan Chapter 2

The chief executive of Diabetes UK has expressed his approval of the government’s publication of the Childhood Obesity Plan Chapter 2, which he says...
Risk of developing certain cancer types is lower in light alcohol drinkers

Risk of developing certain cancer types is lower in light alcohol drinkers

Those who consume less than one drink per day are at the lowest risk of developing a number of cancer types, a risk which...
New drug halves hearing loss in children after cancer treatment

New drug halves hearing loss in children after cancer treatment

Giving the drug sodium thiosulphate (STS) following chemotherapy can reduce hearing loss in children treated for liver cancer, a new study reveals. Results from the...
Cancer in elderly people is expected to increase 80% by 2035

Cancer in elderly people is expected to increase 80% by 2035

Cancer in elderly people is expected to dramatically rise to 80% in less than 20 years, new figures from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) reveal. Around...
Initiative will analyse 500,000 blood samples to aid global medical research

Initiative will analyse 500,000 blood samples to aid global medical research

Nightingale Health and UK Biobank announce a major initiative which aims to analyse half a million blood samples to facilitate global medical research. Announced today,...
Preview of WHO’s new International Classification of Diseases released

Preview of WHO’s new International Classification of Diseases released

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the advance preview of the new International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) this week. What has been added...

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