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With the people, for the people: applying mental health research

From campus to community, the worlds of mental health research and medical practice are being brought together by a collaboration involving researchers, health and social care providers, and the patients themselves.

Visions of future healthcare

On 14 March, academics and members of the public gathered at Emmanuel College to hear a panel of distinguished speakers discuss their personal visions of future healthcare in an event sponsored by the Science AAAS as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

Report backs government-funded older people's advice service

Analysis of the FirstStop initiative reveals that the service saves money and improves quality of life.

Confronting homophobia in South Africa

Cambridge academic Dr Andrew Tucker champions a direct approach to challenging the homophobia that destroys so many lives in South Africa. He has helped to set up a hard-hitting healthcare campaign that encourages a radical change in attitudes within the country's most deprived communities.

Healthcare – from post-communism to Obama

The fierce opposition to President Obama's healthcare policy in the US and the challenges facing health reformists in post-communist Europe are to be examined at the University of Cambridge.

India's new brand of colonialism

The plight of Binayak Sen, the Indian public health expert recently bailed from prison on controversial sedition charges, is symptomatic of the problems facing India's adivasis (indigenous or tribal peoples), Cambridge University researchers have claimed.

FluPhone: disease tracking by app

A mobile phone app developed by Cambridge researchers that tracks how people behave during an epidemic could be used to limit disease spread.

How mobile phones are transforming healthcare

New research highlights examples of medical care transformed by mobile networks.