Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sander van der Linden
14 May 2020“The psychology of pandemics was not on my research agenda, but I can tell you one thing: it is now,” says Dr Sander van der...
Opinion: Employers should cut hours not people during the pandemic
13 May 2020If the UK emulated short-time working programmes in countries like Germany it would help mitigate the mental health as well as economic crises caused by...
The Academy of Medical Sciences announces new Fellows for 2020
13 May 2020Six affiliates of the University of Cambridge are among 50 world-leading UK researchers who have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of...
Testing suggests 3% of NHS hospital staff may be unknowingly infected with coronavirus
12 May 2020Hospital staff may be carrying SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, without realising they are infected, according to a study by researchers at the...
Adult skates can spontaneously repair cartilage injuries
12 May 2020Researchers have found that adult skates have the ability to spontaneously repair injured cartilage, using a type of cartilage stem cell. Human cartilage has very...
AI techniques in medical imaging may lead to incorrect diagnoses
12 May 2020Machine learning and AI are highly unstable in medical image reconstruction, and may lead to false positives and false negatives, a new study suggests.
Social media influencers could encourage adolescents to follow social distancing guidelines, say researchers
12 May 2020Public health bodies should consider incentivising social media influencers to encourage adolescents to follow social distancing guidelines, say researchers. Many adolescents are choosing to ignore the guidelines...
Researchers to track impact of lockdown on alcohol, gambling and pornography use
12 May 2020Is the lockdown leading us to drink more alcohol or spend more time gambling online or watching pornography? Researchers today launch a survey aimed at...
Moderate exercise in middle and older age cuts time spent in hospital
07 May 2020Men and women aged 40–79 are at significantly lower (25–27%) risk of long or frequent hospital admissions if they do some form of physical activity,...
Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 a more rapid alternative to a vaccine, say researchers
07 May 2020Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope of tackling COVID-19 than developing and manufacturing a vaccine,...