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Fewer men join weight loss programmes but are more likely than women to stick with them, according to analysis of international obesity studies led by University of Aberdeen researchers.

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Annually across the globe billions of dollars are spent in the healthcare industry on tens of thousands of clinical trials - but how useful are they?

Staff news - March 2014

Dons' fans who shed a combined 27 stone on a pioneering healthy living initiative will tonight (February 6) hear of the scheme's success at a meeting at Pittodrie.

When we need healthcare - which most of us do at some point in our lives - we want it to be good healthcare. And good healthcare is what NHS Scotland and many health services internationally aim to provide. But what counts as good healthcare?

The academic who heads up a leading University of Aberdeen research unit has been recognised for her “significant contributions” to the advancement of clinical trials - medical research studies that test whether treatments used in healthcare are safe and how well they work.