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UniMed is a team of passionate experts dedicated to helping students win a place at the UK medical school of their choice. Medicine is highly competitive, with over 74,000 applicants in 2016 for only 6815 offers. Good grades alone are not enough to secure your spot at medical school anymore, with over 10 applicants for every offer. Uni Med delivers insider knowledge and practical, tested advice fo

r every step of the application process that gives students the advantage they need to get into medical school.

01/10/2021

Why we sleep, and the processes behind sleep, are amongst the most interesting questions in modern neuroscience. Researchers at the University of Oxford have now uncovered a new target for sleep investigations within the mammalian brain – the cerebral cortex.
The cerebral cortex makes up about 80% of the brain’s volume and is responsible for many complex phenomena, including perception, thought, language, attention and memory. While activity in the cortex is normally used in sleep studies to record sleep/awake patterns, the latest study from Oxford has found that processes within the cortex itself may actually be responsible for sleep control, such as how long to sleep for and how deeply to sleep.

27/09/2021

For years, most research indicated that older adults experience a decline in brain functioning across the board. However, a new observational study, which appears in Nature Human BehaviourTrusted Source, suggests that may not be true.
The study’s authors found that rather than seeing a decline in all cognitive functions, older adults instead demonstrated improvements in some domains.

23/09/2021

Urban and housing design has intimate connections to health. Poor design choices can worsen health, with underlying issues of inequality a driving factor.

20/09/2021

Endometriosis is a painful, chronic condition in which tissue from the uterus inappropriately grows outside the uterus. Current treatments are limited and include surgery and hormone therapy, which can involve unwanted side effects. New research conducted by the University of Oxford, Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bayer AG, offers new insight into how to treat this debilitating disease.

The researchers performed genetic analyses of humans and rhesus macaques to identify a specific gene, NPSR1, that increases risk of suffering from endometriosis. The results reveal a potential new nonhormonal drug target that may lead to improved therapy.

17/09/2021

Understanding your motivation to study Medicine is an essential part of your Personal Statement and interview prep, and it’s what will help you to answer the all-important question: ‘why do you want to be a Doctor?’.

15/09/2021

According to a new study by researchers at Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute, people who attend hospital for their dialysis treatment (haemodialysis) could benefit from an early third dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Levels of antibodies alone do not predict vaccine effectiveness and researchers are confident that, for most, a complete course of either vaccine will still protect against severe disease or death.

13/09/2021

According to a new study, a new eye test can be used to predict a condition that can lead to blindness. In a clinical trial of 113 patients led by researchers at Imperial College London and UCL, retinal imaging technology called Detection of Apoptosis in Retinal Cells (DARC) was able to identify areas of the eye that were showing signs of geographic atrophy (GA) - a common condition that causes reduced vision and blindness. The new study found that DARC was able to predict new areas of GA growth three years in advance.

10/09/2021

A detailed study of the weapons bacteria use to defeat their rivals has revealed a brand new target for antibiotics. The finding could lead to a new class of antibiotics, as well as providing a method for finding other new targets by exploiting the tricks of bacterial warfare.

Antibiotic resistance, where pathogenic bacteria evolve resistance to drugs that usually kill them, is a rising problem globally, meaning new antibiotics need to be found. However, it is difficult for researchers to know which parts of bacterial cells to target with new drugs.

08/09/2021

More than 700 million people are living with untreated high blood pressure, increasing their risk of heart attack, stroke and other diseases. These are the findings of the largest study to date on global hypertension trends, carried out by more than 1100 physicians and scientists and led by Imperial College London and the World Health Organization (WHO), and published in The Lancet.

It finds that the number of adults aged 30-79 years with hypertension has increased from 650 million to 1.28 billion in the last thirty years, and that nearly half of these people did not know they had hypertension.

Hypertension significantly increases the risk of heart, brain and kidney diseases, and is one of the top causes of death and disease throughout the world. It can be easily detected through measuring blood pressure, at home or in a health centre, and can often be treated effectively with medications that are low cost.

03/09/2021

Research findings published by women in elite medical journals are substantially less likely to be cited than are similar articles authored by men, a study finds. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, examined citation data for more than 5,500 papers published in top medical journals between 2015 and 2018.

The findings have significant implications for female researchers’ career progression. Citations are considered a key measure of a paper’s importance, and — although the system is flawed — university and funding administrators often take them into account when deciding whether to give a researcher tenure or grants, and whether to hire or promote them.

01/09/2021

Participation in elite adult rugby may be associated with changes in brain structure - this is the finding of a study of 44 elite rugby players, almost half of whom had recently sustained a mild head injury while playing. The study, part of the Drake Rugby Biomarker Study, was led by Imperial College London and published in the journal Brain Communications. The research found a significant proportion of the rugby players had signs of abnormalities to the white matter, in addition to abnormal changes in white matter volume over time.

26/08/2021

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