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Visit by Associate Professor Andrew Grey from University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alison Avenell and Graeme MacLennan, from HSRU, have collaborative research links with Mark Bolland, Andrew Grey, Ian Reid and Greg Gamble from the Department of Medicine, University of Auckland. Areas of research interest include the effect of calcium and or/vitamin D on cardiovascular disease, cancer, osteoporotic fractures and mortality.
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Participation in the AUA Study Tour - Marion Malcolm
Marion Malcolm (Unit Business Manager) is participating in the 2015 AUA study tour to Belgium and the Netherlands, taking place in early November.
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Collaboration with the American University of Beirut continues
Dr Andrea Darzi from the American University of Beirut has spent a month in the Unit working with Shaun Treweek, Graeme MacLennan, Beatriz Goulao and Cynthia Fraser on a Cochrane review of methods used to handle missing data in randomised trials. The review is now registered with Cochrane and...
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How should health information be presented to the public?
Health and health research are often in the news. Sometimes the information made in these reports is accurate but often it can be hard to understand, and sometimes wrong.
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Award of funds to Dr Heather Morgan
Dr Heather Morgan has recently been awarded funds through the Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF) at the University of Aberdeen to develop her research on the use of wearable technologies and apps to support people with chronic conditions.
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Visitor from the American University of Beirut
Dr Andrea Darzi from the American University of Beirut will be in the Unit for a month starting 7th September.
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Dr Rosemary Hollick to join ground-breaking quality improvement initiative
Dr Rosemary Hollick, Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and Specialty Registrar in Rheumatology at NHS Grampian has been selected to join the inaugural participants of a ground-breaking new initiative to improve the quality of care for patients in the NHS.
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Trial Forge - a new platform that aims to improve the efficiency of randomised trials
A group of researchers from the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen, led by Professor Shaun Treweek, together with colleagues from around the UK are developing a new platform called Trial Forge that aims to improve the efficiency of randomised trials.
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New Huntington's disease Fellowship announced
A new research Fellowship into improving care standards for people living with Huntington's disease has been launched. The £210K study is being backed by the Scottish Huntington's Association and funded by the Scottish Government's chief scientist's office and the RS McDonald Trust. The post has been awarded to Ms Daniela Rae who...
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Early Career Award for Outstanding Achievement awarded to HSRU's Dr Heather Morgan
Heather Morgan was recently presented with an Early Career Award for Outstanding Achievement in the 2015 Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research.