Improving treatments for spinal fracture is the focus for a new €3 million research project, led by Prof Richard M Hall of the Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (iMBE) at the University of Leeds. The EU-funded research will look mainly at problems caused by aging, but will also consider better treatments for spinal damage...
New technologies used to repair spinal fractures could soon be helping patients suffering from the bone marrow cancer multiple myeloma. A research project led by engineers at the University of Leeds will focus on the disease an incurable cancer of the bone marrow that causes destructive lesions in bones and makes them more susceptible to...
A£50 million research initiative, aimed at giving people 50 active years after was launched on 19th October 2009 at the Science Media Centre. Recent research, published in The Lancet, found that more than half of babies now born in the UK and other wealthy nations will live to 100 years. But while improvements in healthcare,...