Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
03 Oct 2024A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while battling their local authorities.
Energy inefficiency and inability to downsize pose even bigger threat to low-income pensioners than loss of Winter Fuel Payments, study suggests
23 Sep 2024The UK Government’s policy to scrap Winter Fuel Payments could disproportionately affect low-income pensioners in England, new analysis suggests. But the same study argues that the energy inefficiency of homes and challenges involved in downsizing will have an even more harmful effect this winter.
Combining kidney and lung cancer screening helps identify tumours early
23 Sep 2024Combining screening for lung and kidney cancers could help identify undiagnosed cases of kidney cancer, say researchers as they release the results from a study showing this approach is feasible and acceptable to participants.
UK organisations release statistics for use of animals in research in 2023
11 Sep 2024The 10 organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research – have released their annual statistics today.
Early career researchers win major European funding
05 Sep 2024Nine Cambridge researchers are among the latest recipients of highly competitive and prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants.
Inside the institute looking at early cancer
24 Jul 2024Today sees the launch of the Early Cancer Institute at Cambridge. Its mission is deceptively simple: to detect cancer early enough to cure it.
