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Each year 5,600 patients are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage because of inequalities. Study underlines importance of awareness campaigns.

Historians have long recognised that the family were the chief carers of the mentally ill. A new study will investigate the emotional and economic consequences of what care in the community meant to 18th-century families.

Phone therapy also increases access and potentially decreases costs.

Delirium also found to worsen severity in those already diagnosed with dementia and increase the pace of cognitive decline.

New medical devices take a long time to reach the market – and many never make it. Jon Johnson, a researcher at ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ’s Institute for Manufacturing, is looking at ways of making the process of commercialisation more efficient.

New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play – to discover what African children know about sex and where they learn it from.

In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ historian Dr Victoria Harris highlights that criminalisation may not be the only route.

Sociologists David Stuckler and Sridhar Venkatapuram discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.

This month, the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ will be profiling research that addresses public health. To begin, Professor Carol Brayne, Director of the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Institute of Public Health, explains how the goals of a new University Strategic Network, PublicHealth @ ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ, will generate fresh insight into the health and well-being of populations.

Eight leading academic centres, including the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆĪ Institute for Public Health (CIPH), are to begin a collaboration that will play a key role in increasing the evidence base for effective public health practice.