Women who experience high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to develop heart disease
2 July 2020
Women who experience high blood pressure during pregnancy are more likely to develop heart disease and heart failure in later life, according to an international team of researchers. When we looked at all the available research, the answer was clear: women who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy – even when it...
Improved MRI scans could aid in development of arthritis treatments
18 June 2020
An algorithm that analyses MRI images and automatically detects small changes in knee joints over time could be used in the development of new treatments for arthritis. Thanks to the engineering expertise of our team, we now have a better way of looking at the joint James MacKay A team of engineers, radiologists and...
Repurposing existing drugs for COVID-19 a more rapid alternative to a vaccine, say researchers
12 May 2020
Repurposing 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, argue an international team of scientists in the British Journal of Pharmacology . "[Repurposed drugs] will have already been shown to be safe and so, if they...
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