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The action was announced by the British Medical Association (BMA) when 18 months of talks with the government failed to lead to agreement on key issues. The issues included a 25% fall in the real-terms value of salaries…
Police in Scotland said that about 1,000 schools, from Dumfries in the south of Scotland to Aberdeenshire and Orkney in the north, had received the hoax warnings. At least 300 schools were affected in Northern Ireland.…
To be clear, cow's milk is not a natural source of iodine. It is fortified, at the cow. As the paper published in the Lancet Planetary Health explains, iodine is in milk because it is added to cattle feed. The vitamin…
Medical experts have long considered body mass index a blunt instrument for defining obesity, leading to concerns that substantial numbers of people with excess body fat are missed while others who are healthy are…
The move will help develop the next generation of cyber talent with a focus on supporting the most disadvantaged schools. Through the collaboration, previous courses curated through the NCSC’s CyberFirst programme are…
The partnership with Breedon will bring together industry and academia to improve productivity, attract and develop talent and accelerate innovation. It will also aim to respond to climate change and strengthen domestic…
Led by the University of Salford in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield and Southampton, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) brings together academic expertise and more than 50 project…
For decades, efforts to detect ovarian cancer earlier have focused on finding smaller tumors, the researchers noted in their report published on Tuesday in Nature Medicine. "We asked a fundamentally different question…
Staff member Hasmeta Yadev is nominated for West London Hero , carpentry apprentice Andrew Stent for Apprentice of the Year (16–29-year-old category) and UCG for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Business of the Year .…
If the US loses its measles-free status, it would join Canada and several European and Asian nations that had eliminated the disease only for it to return. "That is a tremendous step backwards," said Dr Paul Offit…