New global guidelines for preventing pressure ulcers and other complications in patients receiving respiratory support have now been issued. The […]
New finding offers possibility for preventing age-related metabolic disease
A study by researchers at Yale has uncovered why belly fat surrounding organs increases as people age, a finding that […]
Gut stem cells offer clues for preventing tumours in inherited bowel cancer
Treating pre-cancerous stem cells at an early stage could be key to preventing bowel cancer in people born with a […]
Call for a unified approach to preventing suicides and other self-injury deaths
Self-injury mortality (SIM), a composite of all methods of suicide and estimated non-suicide deaths from drug self-intoxication, has surpassed diabetes […]
The effectiveness of chlorhexidine is limited in preventing infections in oral procedures
The human mouth is colonised by a huge variety of bacteria. When surgical procedures such as a tooth extraction are […]