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Putting public health research into practice has had major impacts worldwide, resulting in longer, healthier lives.

Vegetables

Research unit to help encourage healthier habits launched

12 Apr 2011

New research unit to focus on how to change behaviours responsible for the majority of premature deaths worldwide.

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baby in the womb

You are what your mother ate

21 Mar 2011

Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health.

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needles

Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier

14 Mar 2011

Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person’s life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated...

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Ward at Alpha Hospital

New Health Services Research Centre opens

10 Jan 2011

A new Health Services Research Centre based at the University of Cambridge has launched.

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the weight of your being

New Cambridge research unit to help encourage healthier habits

10 Jan 2011

A new research unit based at the University of Cambridge will help inform the Government’s policy making on behaviour and health by investigating the...

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Why more education lowers dementia risk

23 Jul 2010

A team of researchers from the UK and Finland has discovered why people who stay in education longer have a lower risk of developing dementia; a...

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Hospital

Risk of death higher if born outside working week

15 Jul 2010

Babies born at night or at the weekend are at greater risk of dying due to lack of oxygen (anoxia) than those born during normal working hours...

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Money

Wealthier, but not necessarily healthier

07 Jul 2010

One of the most famous and influential mantras of Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser – that wealthier nations are also healthier – has been called...

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Diabetes doubles risk of heart attack and strokes

25 Jun 2010

Having diabetes doubles the risk of developing a wide range of blood vessel diseases, including heart attacks and different types of stroke...

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parkinsons-neurons

Major new study into brain ageing

25 May 2010

Efforts to understand the effects of ageing on the brain have been given a major boost with the announcement of a new £5m grant from the...

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IMS

Tackling obesity and diabetes: Institute of Metabolic Science

01 May 2010

The rising prevalence of obesity, diabetes and related disorders is an epidemic of global proportions. Research at the Institute of Metabolic Science...

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Cards

Cancer: what's on the cards?

04 Jan 2010

Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.

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