Health | Research and Innovation

On a mission to transform palliative healthcare

Greek researcher, Dr Pantelis Natsiavas, is on a mission to use technology to redefine the meaning of palliative care for those affected by cancer ...

Researchers are working with schools across Europe to support healthier lifestyles and help prevent childhood obesity. © f.t.Photographer, Shutterstock.com

Health | Science in society

Beyond ‘eat less, move more’: building the bigger picture on childhood obesity

Researchers across Europe are pooling data and expertise while working with schools, hospitals and families to find better ways to tackle childhood ...

Researchers are investigating what is really in the air we breathe indoors. © Josep Suria, Shutterstock.com

Environment | Health | Science in society

Tackling the invisible pollution in homes, schools and workplaces

We spend most of our time indoors, but how much do we know about the air we breathe? EU-funded researchers are looking for answers and practical ways ...

A health worker treating a sick child. Image courtesy of the Supporting Life project.

Health | ICT

Mobile app to treat sick children in Malawi

A mobile app that helps diagnose and treat sick children in remote parts of Malawi could have a significant impact on survival rates across the continent.

Antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' have become a significant health threat. © CNRS Photothèque - UMR6522

Public–Private Partnerships | Health | Innovation Union

EU partnership targets top diseases

A multi-billion-euro partnership between the EU and the pharmaceutical industry in Europe plans to target the top diseases, as identified by the World Health Organization (WHO), over the next decade.

Highly magnified microscopic view of small intestine (duodenum) with enteritis in immunodeficiency status. © Shutterstock

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Gut bacteria linked to longevity

A Mediterranean-style diet rich in fish, fruit and olive oil can help people live longer, and scientists believe this could be because of its effect on the bacteria in our stomachs.

Illustration of a human human nerve cell © Shutterstock/Sebastian Kaulitzki

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Pioneering treatment offers paraplegics hope

Scientists have managed to get paralysed rats to walk again, using a combination of chemicals and electrical stimulation, an achievement that might one day help wheelchair-bound humans.

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Gut bacteria linked to longevity

A Mediterranean-style diet rich in fish, fruit and olive oil can help people live longer, and scientists believe this could be because of its effect on the bacteria in our stomachs.

Researchers on the EU-funded RARE project are trying to slow down or stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance by studying how it evolves in the laboratory. © Len Rubenstein

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Alternating antibiotics to tackle superbugs

Researchers believe they can take on drug-resistant superbugs by changing the way that drugs are prescribed in hospitals.

Researchers on the Research Vessel Jan Mayen (belonging to the University of Tromsø, Norway) sorting specimens brought up by a trawl net. The cold seas of Norway might yield new species of interesting marine micro-organisms. © Marcel Jaspars

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New drugs... at the bottom of the ocean

European researchers are heading to some of the deepest and coldest places on the planet as part of a race against time to find new medicines that can protect society from increasingly drug-resistant bacteria.

Innovative nanotools for cancer diagnostics based on photoluminescent, plasmonic, second harmonic generating and magnetically barcoded nanoparticles and nanowires (clockwise from upper left) could help detect the disease earlier. © Igor Nabiev, Luigi Bonacina, Adriele Prina Mello and Darragh Crotty

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Nano-tech sensors to find cancer earlier

New medical devices working with particles so small that they are invisible to the human eye are paving the way for earlier cancer detection, helping save lives.

Through the EU-funded EpiTarGene project, Dr Katarzyna Kalita, from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland, has identified a group of genes controlled by one of the major regulatory proteins in the brain: the Serum Response Factor (SRF). This could lead to the better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of epilepsy.

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Genes, brain plasticity & epileptic seizures

Researchers studying one of the major regulatory proteins in the brain are advancing knowledge about the behaviour of certain genes upon epileptic seizures.

Radiotherapy treatment at Akademiska Hospital, Sweden. © RaySearch Laboratories

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Fighting cancer with high-tech imaging

Researchers who can monitor a cancer tumour as it changes and help direct radiation right into its centre believe they may be able to increase the efficiency of cancer treatment by at least a sixth.