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Dr Lionel Broche - Institute of Medical Sciences

10 years ago, Spinal Muscular Atrophy was the second most common inherited cause of infant mortality worldwide, but you may never have heard of it. Severely affected children had a life expectancy of less than 3 years, but now three novel and expensive therapies have emerged, which are providing new...

Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many health conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancers. We will look at why increasing the amount of fat tissue we have in our bodies can lead to disease. We will also discuss bariatric surgery, which can be a highly...

Sir Dugald Baird had the foresight to start collecting data on all pregnancies in Aberdeen in 1949 - we take a look at how data in the AMND has led to breakthrough research and changed our understanding of pregnancy complications for the last 75 years. Learn how we carry our...

Open to university staff, students, clinical colleagues and the public.

Patients with pelvic cancers, including colorectal, prostate and gynaecological cancers, are treated with surgery and radiotherapy, but not all are cured. We are investigating the possible use of dietary fibre supplements to improve outcomes. We will discuss our work and explain the underlying rationale.  

Thalidomide: The Good and the Bad sides of a medicine.

Diet and health inequalities linked to obesity Currently, 63% of adults in UK are collectively overweight or obesity, with figures projected to keep rising, linked to the cost of living crisis. Obesity is disproportionately represented in areas of social deprivation. Our food system must consider solutions to reduce diet-related inequality to...

Professor Alexandra Johnstone (Chair in Human Nutrition, Rowett Institute) will speak about diet and health inequalities linked to obesity.

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