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Culture shift needed to improve the hospital care for elderly people with mental health problems
A new report by The University of Nottingham says there has to be nothing less than […]
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Tags: care, dementia, elderly, hospital, mental health, patients, staff
Prescribing errors – what do patients think?
Patients are to be asked what more can be done to make prescribing safer. Researchers at […]
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Tags: General Medical Council, GP, pharmacists, prescribing, primary care
New study will examine the incidence and impact of gluten intolerance in the UK
A University of Nottingham expert has been awarded £80,000 by two national charities to study the […]
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Tags: coeliac disease, Core, funding, gluten, School of Community Health Sciences
Nottingham spin-outs win funding to develop personalised medicine technologies
Two healthcare spin-out companies from The University of Nottingham have won funding to develop unique technologies […]
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Tags: angina, blood cots, Department of Health, heart attack, Nottingham Prognostics Ltd, Platelet Solutions, stroke, Technology STrategy Board, thrombosis
Stemming the tide of stray cats and dogs
At any one time there are around 28,000 homeless cats and dogs in the UK and […]
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Tags: cats, Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine, dogs, homeless, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, stray
Mutant parasite could stop malaria in its tracks
University of Nottingham malaria experts have found a way of disabling one of the many phosphatase […]
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Tags: Centre for Genetics and GEnomics, malaria, mosquito, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, parasite, School of Biology
GPs using unreliable websites for tinnitus information, study finds
GPs are not always using the most comprehensive and reliable online resources to support them in […]
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Tags: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, Nottingham Trent University, tinnitus
Diet could combat adverse side-effects of quinine
Scientists at The University of Nottingham say adverse side-effects caused by the anti-parasitic drug quinine in […]
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Tags: malaria, School of Biology, School of Biosciences, serotonin, tryptophan