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Confidence in Care

9 February 2016

Trial seeks to improve life chances of Wales’s looked after children

Blood Cells

Test could lead to more effective leukaemia treatment

21 January 2016

Simple blood test capable of detecting levels of leukaemia cells post chemotherapy

Antibiotics

Probiotics against infection trial begins

1 December 2015

£1.8m project to explore probiotics’ ability to prevent infections and reduce antibiotic use in care home residents

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Cardiff academic to raise concerns on breastfeeding rates

24 November 2015

Dr Kate Boyer to share research with Westminster MPs

Pills

“Disturbing breach of last group of antibiotics”

19 November 2015

Scientists discover antibiotic-resistant gene with epidemic potential

Peking Cardiff Collaboration

A less toxic approach to beating cancer

18 November 2015

A cocktail of non-toxic chemicals taken from food and vegetables may hold the key to beating untreatable cancers and relapse

Child Research

Educational challenges facing Wales’s looked-after children

11 November 2015

Study highlights that just 2.4% of looked-after children progress to university

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Wales’s most powerful MRI scanner arrives

2 November 2015

New £6M scanner to detect disease inside the brain

Tablets

Universal strategy to increase the uptake of drugs

22 October 2015

Scientists design more effective approach to deliver drugs targeting cancer cells and other diseases

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University’s £2.7bn boost to UK economy

14 October 2015

New research shows that University generates £6 for every £1 it spends.