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The immune system is our first line of defence against infection. Its mission is to kill pathogens and dispose of them. Traditionally, medicine has reinforced the immune system by fighting invaders and the threats they carry from outside our bodies. But while it’s tempting to line up the usual suspects, Clare Bryant’s work...

Maxine Farmer, Senior Advisor at Health Innovations East, gave a talk as part of the Innovation Breakfast meeting series , focused on the importance of taking health inequalities into account when thinking about innovation and programme design or delivery

Our risk of developing atherosclerosis – ‘furring’ of the arteries – can begin much earlier in life than was previously thought, highlighting the need to keep cholesterol levels low even when we are young, new research has discovered.

Author: Emanuele di Angelantonio et al (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)