Chloe Gamlin, University of Cambridge medical student and President of the student society for general practitioners at Cambridge, asks leading behavioural scientist Professor Dame Theresa Marteau to describe her career and how being a woman has influenced her work. Chloe: In your opinion, what is the greatest public health challenge we are currently facing, and […]
Major Funding for Cambridge to transform health through data science
Cambridge is amongst six sites across the UK to be awarded a total of £30M funding by Health Data Research UK, to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science. The Wellcome Sanger Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the University of Cambridge achieved funding for the Cambridge site due to their world-class […]
Could re-designing supermarkets, bars and restaurants “nudge” us towards healthy habits?
Behavioural and cognitive scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol today launched a new four year programme of research funded by a prestigious Wellcome Collaborative Award in Science to investigate ways to ‘nudge’ people towards healthier behaviour – including improving diets, reducing alcohol consumption, and stopping smoking – in order to improve health across […]
Overweight but apparently healthy people are still at risk of heart disease
Researchers from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and the MRC Epidemiology Unit have found that being overweight or obese increases a person’s risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by up to 28% compared to those with a healthy bodyweight, even if they have healthy blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels. The […]
Breast Cancer: also a male issue
An international study jointly led by scientists at the University of Cambridge and Sapienza University of Rome has identified genetic factors which can increase or decrease the risk of developing breast and prostate cancer in men carrying faults in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The research can be used to inform prevention and screening strategies […]
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