Arclight in Rwanda
The Global Health Team from the School of Medicine recently completed a national eye care training and distribution exercise in Rwanda utilizing the Arclight solar powered ophthalmoscope. The team, led by Dr Andrew…
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Brazilian hospital A&E resource optinisation
Inferences from A&E data for resource optimisation in Brazilian hospitals Dr Juliana Bowles, Dr Sandra Quickert, Dr Ricardo Czekster & Dr Thais Webber School of Computer Science & University of Santa Cruz do Sul,…
MapMySmoke app
Dr Tom Kelsey and Dr Robert Schick School of Computer Science and School of Mathematics and Statistics With the increasing availability of smartphones, we sought to investigate whether: an app could be deployed with…
Muscle contraction sensor
Dr Simonas Krotkus & Prof. Ifor Samuel | School of Physics & Astronomy Wearable sensors are desirable for a wide range of medical applications including long-term continuous health monitoring and various robotic tools…
Porous materials for medical applications
Development of prototype MOF/polymer coatings for medical applications Dr Stewart Warrender School of Chemistry On any given day, approximately one in 25 US patients has at least one infection contracted during the…
Novel drug tools for neglected diseases
Novel drug tools for neglected diseases: Development of tools for target identification of nitrofuran-carboxyamides with potent trypanocidal activity Prof. Terry Smith and Dr Gordon Florence School of Biology Parasitic…
Communicating with people with advanced dementia
There are 850,000 individuals with a diagnosis of dementia in the UK, many of whom are likely to progress to a state of advanced dementia. Professional care places a considerable strain on NHS resources and the…
Improving young people’s health and well-being
Adolescents make up about one sixth of the world’s population, so policy and practice that improves the lives of young people is hugely beneficial now and for the future. In the current economic climate, most countries…
Tackling the global tobacco epidemic with geochemistry
One in two smokers will succumb to a smoking-related disease and one billion deaths in the 21st century will be attributable to smoking. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is responding to this global epidemic with a…
Psychological intervention to alleviate heightened fears of recurrence of cancer patients
Fear of recurrence is a major concern for many cancer patients, as highlighted in a major review by Professor Gerald Humphris and Dr Gozde Ozakinci of the School of Medicine.