Posts Tagged ‘medicine’

Sugar treatment could sweeten healing process

Sugar treatment could sweeten healing process

The use of sugar to heal wounds by a University of Wolverhampton lecturer has been hailed as “revolutionary” by a patient who is receiving the treatment at a Birmingham hospital.

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Birmingham Medical Charity Raises Cash and Saves Lives- Thanks to City Supporters

Birmingham Medical Charity Raises Cash and Saves Lives- Thanks to City Supporters

A Birmingham medical charity has raised more than £1500 to save the lives of mothers in developing countries.

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Medical Charity Doubles Your Donation to Save Mothers’ Lives

Medical Charity Doubles Your Donation to Save Mothers’ Lives

Medical charity Ammalife kicks off donation campaign with deal to double your offer to help save lives

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Birmingham Medical Charity To Feature In Online Appeal

Birmingham Medical Charity To Feature In Online Appeal

How a Birmingham medical charity is saving lives around the world

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Leading Chinese genomics institute partners with the University of Birmingham

Leading Chinese genomics institute partners with the University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham and BGI, a leading genomics organisation in China, have today announced a major joint initiative in environmental and human health research.

Local state school students learn what it takes to be a doctor at Oxford

Local state school students learn what it takes to be a doctor at Oxford

Oxford University is targeting state school students from Birmingham to help those considering applying for one of Oxford’s most competitive courses – Medicine.

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Birmingham Doctors Break New Ground in Bladder Cancer Treatment

Birmingham Doctors Break New Ground in Bladder Cancer Treatment

  Adding chemo to radiotherapy halves risk of dangerous cancer returning. Laurie Southgate reports Bladder cancer patients given low doses of chemotherapy combined with radiotherapy were nearly 50 per cent less likely to relapse with the most lethal form of the disease compared to patients given radiotherapy alone, a major Birmingham trial funded by Cancer

College Backs Ammalife and Helps Mothers Globally

College Backs Ammalife and Helps Mothers Globally

from our staff A senior principal for a Birmingham college has backed the city based Ammalife medical campaign. Joseph Chamberlain College raised more than £366 for the charity which works worldwide to prevent maternal deaths during pregnancy or childbirth. The money was raised by students who are all learning English at the college. Many are

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Birmingham at the forefront of biotech news

Birmingham at the forefront of biotech news

A revolution in the drug discovery industry is underway, with universities across the West Midlands leading the effort

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New Mobile Study: Warnings Over Cancer Risk – But Now You Can Be Part of Major UK Study

New Mobile Study: Warnings Over Cancer Risk – But Now You Can Be Part of Major UK Study

Richard Lutz has always been suspicious that everytime he picked up a mobile there was a digi-signal lining up a bullseye inside his head.

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Is This the Unkindest Cut of All?

Is This the Unkindest Cut of All?

  By Richard Lutz The radical surgery being carried out on the NHS has thrown up a wide range of criticism in the past fortnight. And more will surface as Britain takes in the official announcement finally made by the government earlier this week. The dust will settle and many huge decisions will be revealed

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