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Pharmacy researchers investigating drug optimisation for severe mental illness hold workshop for people with lived experience
Members of the Lived Experience Stakeholder Group meet at Aston University for the first time to give feedback on the project MEDIATE investigated how medication ...
‘Rising star’ graduate: Sylvia Ofori’s journey from Ghana to Georgia Southern to Harvard
On her first flight from Ghana to the United States, Sylvia Ofori arrived in Atlanta, Georgia, at 1 a.m. By 4 o’clock the next afternoon, ...
New research to help manage excessive weight gain in patients being treated with antipsychotics
New research led by Dr Gurkiran Birdi and Dr Ian Maidment in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University will explore ways ...
ChristianaCare and The Wistar Institute advance partnership with new cancer research strategies
ChristianaCare’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute is advancing its historic partnership with the Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar ...
Could Vitamin-A bring back your sense of smell after Covid?
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and James Paget University Hospital are launching a new project to see whether Vitamin A could help people ...
Social media ‘likes’ found to positively influence healthy food choices – new research
Social media users who view images of healthy foods that have been heavily endorsed with ‘likes’ are more likely to make healthier food choices, a ...
Clinical trials to combat short sightedness in children underway at Aston University
Clinical trials to treat myopia - or short sightedness - in children are now underway. They are being conducted by researchers from Aston University in ...
Community pharmacy can play a ‘key clinical role’ in delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations – new research
New research published in BMJ Open shows that community pharmacy could play a ‘key clinical role’ in the future role of COVID-19 vaccination programmes, according ...
GPS need training to tackle chronic opioid use
GPs must be better-equipped to support patients to manage the psychological challenge of reducing their opioid use - according to research from the University of ...
Starter vape packs to be handed out in hospitals
A new trial from the University of East Anglia will see smokers attending hospital emergency departments given e-cigarette starter packs to help them quit. The ...