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Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date, involving over 347,000 people, and jointly led by Queen Mary ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of London (QMUL) and the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.Ìý

MichaelÌýGaultoisÌý(Department of Chemistry),ÌýJoshua Conrad Jackson ( ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston ̽»¨Ö±²¥), and JaanÌýAltosaar (Princeton ̽»¨Ö±²¥) discuss why much reporting on scienceÌýis currently failing to resolve the trade-off between accessibility and accountability.

ThomasÌýBurgoine andÌýPabloÌýMonsivais (Centre for Diet and Activity Research) discuss how takeaways can make social inequality worse.

We know a lot about food but little about the food choices that affect the nation’s health. Researchers have begun to devise experiments to find out why we choose a chocolate bar over an apple – and whether ‘swaps’ and ‘nudges’ are effective.

Novel use of UK national data finds a growing gap between the prices of more and less healthy foods between 2002 and 2012. Healthy foods in 2012 were three times more expensive per calorie than less healthy foods.

A study of physical activity patterns of women and their four-year-olds reveals a strong association between the two. It also shows that only 53% of mothers engaged in 30 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity at least once a week. Taken together, these results provide valuable pointers for policy makers.

A new study is looking at a century of mass migrations worldwide to understand the public health consequences when people are forced to flee from war, persecution and natural disaster.

EPIC-Norfolk, a long-term study of health and ageing that recently celebrated its 20th birthday, provides researchers with a wealth of data. Annalijn Conklin, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), discusses what we can learn from the study about the impact of isolation, and a drop in quality of diet, on the older population.Ìý

A landmark longitudinal study of health in the community will celebrate its 20th anniversary in Norwich tomorrow (10 October). ̽»¨Ö±²¥research, which adds significantly to our knowledge of public health, relies on volunteers who consistently give their time to science.
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