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  • Tobacco and Vapes Bill becomes law

    The Tobacco and Vapes Act has now passed through Parliament and become law. The new legislation will ban tobacco sales to anyone born on or after January 1, 2009, and give the government powers to stop vapes from being deliberately branded and advertised to appeal to children.

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    Learn more about the Cross Party Group Inquiry into High Blood Pressure in Scotland, which launched in 2018, and gathered information on living with high blood pressure.

  • People from Black and Asian ethnic groups at greater risk of dying from coronavirus

    We respond to figures published today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which reveal that people from certain minority ethnic groups are disproportionately at greater risk of dying from Covid-19.

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    We’ve selected our best healthy recipes to try this spring, whether you’re hosting a garden party or having a picnic.

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    Finding ways of testing new drugs for pulmonary hypertension

    Imperial College London | Professor Lan Zhao

    Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, causing damage to the right side of the heart and heart failure. It is caused by an overgrowth of cells in the blood vessel...

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    Iron and cell overgrowth in pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Imperial College London | Dr Gregory Quinlan

    Dr Gregory Quinlan and his team at Imperial College London are looking at the role of iron in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a serious condition where people have high blood pressure in the arteries of their lungs. In PAH, lung ...

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    Using nanomaterials to lower cholesterol

    University of Surrey | Dr Daniel Whelligan

    Atherosclerosis, where blood vessels become ‘furred up’ and narrowed, is a major cause of death and disability in the UK. Statins are used to lower cholesterol for those with, atherosclerosis but they are not always well tolerated. There ar...

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    Inner space: a view from inside our arteries

    University of Strathclyde | Professor John G McCarron

    Professor John McCarron and his team at the University of Strathclyde are studying the inner lining of blood vessels, called the endothelium. This cell layer senses changes in blood pressure, blood flow and blood composition, and sends sign...

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    Using powerful MRI technology to find out the causes of lacunar stroke

    University of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus

    Cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is a disease affecting the small blood vessels of the brain. It can lead to a lacunar stroke – a type of stroke which happens when one of the small blood vessels deep within the brain becomes blocked. ...