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ACHDS staff nominated for Principal's Excellence Awards 2024
Great to see so many nominations for the team in this year's Excellence Awards: Excellence in Leadership Award - Katherine O'Sullivan Excellence in Partnership Working Award - Katie Wilde Outstanding Team - Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) Excellence in Contribution to a Team or Role Award - Antonietta Chaliou, Irmina Zborowska Outstanding...
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Worse survival rates and different care for cancer patients who live further from hospital
Patients who live further away from cancer centres are likely to receive different care and experience worse outcomes than those who live closer according to new research on patients in the north-east of Scotland and the Northern Isles. This is despite patients from further away being referred and diagnosed as...
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Revisiting Cancer Diagnosis in Scotland:
Further Insights from the Second Scottish National Cancer Diagnosis Audit.
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Choose your Challenge for Women's Health Research!
Registrations are now open for the 2024 community fundraising events in support of women’s health research: Dates for your diary: ...
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Congratulations Alice!
Congratulations to Dr Alice Mcgee, Clinical Research Fellow at the Aberdeen Centre for Women’s Health (ACWHR) whose abstract has been shortlisted for the Young Scientist’s Award at EUROGIN 2024 EUROGIN - International Multidisciplinary HPV Congress. Alice will present her 5-minute pitch to a jury panel in Stockholm next month. All...
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Challenges of the cost-of-living crisis for people with kidney disease in Scotland.
Dr Aravinda Meera Guntupalli and Dr Simon Sawhney were invited by Kidney Care UK and Miles Briggs MSP to attend a Scottish Parliamentary Roundtable with Jenni Minto (Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health), clinicians, researchers, cross-party politicians and most importantly, people living with kidney disease to address the impact...
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Action needed now to avoid potential harms for future hip fracture patients
New research from the University of Aberdeen forecasts an upsurge in hip fracture patients within the next decade and an NHS shortfall of more than £25 million to meet this demand.
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Addressing health inequality in randomised trials
Moderna, the company behind one of the UK’s COVID vaccines, has been speaking to members of under-served communities and others, including HSRU’s Prof Shaun Treweek, about how to address inequality in clinical trials. This has led to an approach called ACT– Accessible; Convenient; Trusted – that Moderna will promote in its...
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'Toenail clippings for assessing risk of rare blood cancers' research in the media.
The potential of toenail trace elements for assessing the risk of myeloproliferative neoplasms research, led by Professor Lesley Anderson and funded by local charity Friends of Anchor, has hit the headlines in the last few weeks! The research has been picked up by the following national and local news: BBC News, GrampianOnLine,...
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The Institute of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Aberdeen Presents Honorary Appointment
The Institute of Applied Health Sciences (IAHS) at the University of Aberdeen has taken a significant step in redefining the nature of research partnerships between members of the public and researchers by bestowing honorary titles upon members of its Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) Public Involvement Partnership (PIP) group. This...