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Buyankhishig criss-crossed the hillside before making offerings of vodka and milk. Then, beating her drum and chanting, she invited her ancestral spirits to enter her body.

Ailing bodies, angry mountains, healing spirits: shamanic healing in Mongolia

18 Jan 2019

Through sound and photography, Cambridge researcher Dr Elizabeth Turk shares her experiences of talking to shamanic healers in Mongolia. Over the...

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Spotlight on children

01 Nov 2018

Welcome to our new ‘ Spotlight on children ’, a focus on research taking place at the University of Cambridge relating to children and childhood –...

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Polymer biosensor

Low-cost plastic sensors could monitor a range of health conditions

22 Jun 2018

An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost sensor made from semiconducting plastic that can be used to diagnose or monitor a wide...

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Unique science for health policy think-tank joins University of Cambridge

29 Mar 2018

A leading multidisciplinary think tank, the PHG Foundation, will become part of the University of Cambridge from 1 April this year, with a focus on...

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Health/Medical

No evidence to support claims that telephone consultations reduce GP workload or hospital referrals

27 Sep 2017

Telephone consultations to determine whether a patient needs to see their GP face-to-face can deal with many problems, but a study led by researchers...

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Measurement of brain activity in a patient with phantom limb pain

Cause of phantom limb pain in amputees, and potential treatment, identified

27 Oct 2016

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a...

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Pulmonary hypertension-associated vasculitis

Major global study reveals new hypertension and blood pressure genes

12 Sep 2016

Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date...

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Opinion: Accurate science or accessible science in the media – why not both?

02 Jun 2016

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston University), and...

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Fish and chips

Opinion: Local takeaways create a double burden for obesity

11 May 2016

Thomas Burgoine and Pablo Monsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discuss how takeaways can make social inequality worse.

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Nancy's Fruit Salad by John Hritz

Healthy vs unhealthy food: the challenges of understanding food choices

11 Mar 2016

We know a lot about food but little about the food choices that affect the nation’s health. Researchers have begun to devise experiments to find out...

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Doughnut

Price gap between more and less healthy foods grows

09 Oct 2014

Novel use of UK national data finds a growing gap between the prices of more and less healthy foods between 2002 and 2012. Healthy foods in 2012 were...

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Wellies

When mothers are active so are their children – but many mothers are not

24 Mar 2014

A study of physical activity patterns of women and their four-year-olds reveals a strong association between the two. It also shows that only 53% of...

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