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Staff News - September 2016
Farewell to Mags Watson who leaves us on 9 September, to Karen Keenan who leaves us on 23 September, to Janet Nixon and John Norrie who both leave us at the end of September and to Georgia Mannion-Krase who leaves us on 3 October. They will all be missed and...
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Report card decreases dentists' antibiotic prescriptions
Dentists prescribe fewer antibiotics after they receive a personalised report detailing their past prescription rates, according to research from The University of Aberdeen.
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CHaRT delivers 1-day workshop at EHPS conference - 23 August 2016
On 23 August 2016, staff from CHaRT facilitated a one day workshop on the Design and conduct of randomised controlled trials of behavioural change interventions.
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Aberdeen-led £1.4million study into fresh approach to common condition
A new study into the treatment of gallbladder stones - conditions which lead to around 80,000 operations a year in the UK - is being directed by Professor Irfan Ahmed of NHS Grampian and Professor Craig Ramsay of the University of Aberdeen.
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Staff News - August 2016
Farewell to Caroline Peet who left us on 15 July. We wish her every success for the future. Welcome to all of our summer placement students who are with us for various durations during the summer holidays: Chloe Brooks, Katie Gambier-Ross, Emmanuel Iwegbu, Maciej Muszynski (introduced at last USM), Daniel Williams and...
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Lynda Constable appointed to the Board for the Society for Clinical Trials
Congratulations to Lynda Constable, who was appointed to the prestigious position of Member of the Board of directors for the Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) in June 2016. This appointment is in recognition of Lynda’s expertise in clinical trials methodology and clinical trials management. Lynda hopes to increase the representation...
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A comparison of pre-prepared commercial infant feeding meals with home-cooked recipes
A recently published journal article by researchers at the University of Aberdeen (Sharon Carstairs, Dr Leone Craig and Dr Kirsty Kiezebrink) and University of Warwick (Dr Debbi Marais) has received local and national media interest. The article, comparing home-cooked main meal recipes from published infant and toddler cookbooks to commercial...
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Young Researchers Using Statistics Symposium 2016
University of Aberdeen - 30 June 2016
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Health Research and the Importance of Context
There is a lot of waste in health research: one estimate suggests that 85% of the resources put into health research are wasted - The Lancet Randomised trials play an important role in evidence-based health care systems such as the NHS but they too suffer from inefficiency. One reason for this...
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International Social Pharmacy Workshop (ISPW) Conference July 19th - 22nd, 2016
We look forward to welcoming delegates from around the world to the ISPW 2016 conference. Over 170 delegates from 27 countries and five continents will attend this event, the theme of which is: Improving pharmacy practice: education, evidence and change. This is the first time the biennial conference...