Doctors often prescribe drugs to treat people who are at risk of heart attacks or strokes. But as every patient is slightly different, which drugs are likely to work best?…Read More >
Agriculture, Food & Health
Volunteers wanted for grape seed trial
The School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences is currently recruiting volunteers aged 18-30 (with English as a first language) for a 13 week study investigating the effects of a…Read More >
James Parkinson, Theresa May and me
By Dr Patrick Lewis, Associate Professor of Pharmacy 200 years ago the disorder that we now know as Parkinson’s disease was first described by James Parkinson, a surgeon and apothecary…Read More >
Volunteers needed for diet and housing study
Researchers from the University of Reading’s Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition are looking for volunteers aged between 18 and 65 to take part in a study assessing diet and…Read More >
Volunteers required for research on extracellular vesicles
By Dr Plinio Ferreira, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Platelet Biology in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences We are carrying out research to better characterise blood and platelet extracellular vesicles,…Read More >
Dog food study
By Sensory Dimensions We are launching a Dog Food study on wet Dog Food for men and women aged 18 to 70. The study is taking place on Monday 16 October. It lasts 75 minutes,…Read More >
Watchers on the wall: Microglia and Alzheimer’s Disease
By Laura Thei, University of Reading, UK Reproduced with permission from The Physiological Society’s blog. The watch, worn by years of use, sits ticking on our table for the first…Read More >
What do we know about the fat in our food?
Kate Green, Partnerships Manager, Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) The shocking fact that 1 in 4 adults in the UK are obese is quite something. This figure has trebled…Read More >
Does bacon really cause cancer?
By Dr Gunter Kuhnle, Nutritional epidemiologist, University of Reading A few years ago, the decision by the WHO to classify processed meat as carcinogenic to humans has resulted in a lot…Read More >