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Scientists at the University of Sussex have used their happiness app, Mappiness, to measure how football fans feel at a game. They found that fans felt more pain in a defeat of their team than they felt joy when their team won. The research was published in a paper for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

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A team of researchers from the University of Liverpool have been examining whether reducing the portion size of food products could help obesity by affecting people’s perceptions of what a normal food portion should be. The study was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and is available to read online.

The researchers state that over time, there have been...Read More

A team of scientists from a US medical centre have developed an equine flu vaccine which enables horses to be protected from flu, both now and in the future. The scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center and Technology Departments, the University of Kentucky and the University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, chose to focus on improving the...Read More

A team of international scientists working as part of the Cochrane Collaboration, have produced a study into the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine against cervical cancer. The scientists were from the Belgian Cancer Centre, the University of Antwerp, in Belgium and the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. The meta-analysis of randomised, controlled trials, and systematic review study...Read More

The World Health Organisation has urged global leaders to commit to investing to beat malaria. Over the last 10 years, rates of people contracting malaria has fallen, however, recently funding has slowed and the rates have begun to rise again. There were 5 million more cases reported in 2016 than 2015 and the  the levels have risen to those in...Read More

A team of scientists have put together a 3 part series of reviews on pregnancy, focusing on worldwide pre-conception health, which was published in The Lancet. The articles can be read for free, by creating an account. The journal is peer-reviewed. The first review focused on the effect of health and lifestyle of the woman in the preconception period, and...Read More