Happier hospitals means healthier patients
...work together, everyone can benefit. And now the centre hopes to use the good examples set by some hospitals to improve relationships in the others. There has been a tendency to think that these problems can be changed simply by changing management structures, said Becky. You find people fiddling about...Nottingham center to help UK to meet its carbon targets
...ide rocks will be developed at a new 1.1m research centre at The University of Nottingham. Dr Mercedes Mar...eader in Energy Technology, has won 1.1m for a new centre that is set to play a crucial role in the fight against climate change. The Centre for Innovation ...ESA's Earth Explorer gravity satellite on show
...o ESTEC the space agencys research and technology centre in the Netherlands for final testing. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer(GOCE), the first core Earth Explorer mission to be developed as part of ESA's Living Planet Programme, will significantly advance our knowledge of ......S, in the modified cell phone, so that the medical centre can more quickly pinpoint the patient. They also hope to improve the level of detail that can be sent from the cell phone to the emergency room using the Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) as opposed to the SMS text messaging system....Patients with soft tissue sarcomas should be treated at high volume centers
...stablish whether the volume of surgeries done at a centre affected the likelihood of patients keeping their limbs. A total of 1937 extremity tumours were analysed. At high volume centres, 90.6% of procedures for these tumours were limb sparing operations compared with 86.2% at low volume centres, suggesting...University research wins royal accolade
...nes the Universitys reputation as an international centre of excellence in research. The School of Pharmacy ...drug delivery and tissue engineering. It is also a centre of excellence in social research in medicines and health. The school was singled out for enhancing...DFG approves 11 new Collaborative Research Centers
...tive medicine using nano and laser technology. The centre will be based in Hannover, Aachen and Rostock. (Ho...um optics, solid state physics and chemistry. This centre will also include the first integrated Research Training Group, taking advantage of the recently int...Pioneering UK skin researchers achieve international quality standard
...he international quality standard ISO 17025. The centre has an impressive client list, with long-standing relationships with blue-chip companies such as Unilever, Stiefel, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Smith & Nephew and 3M Woundcare - and is now seeking to increase its collaborative activity with ......e award coincides with the completion of a new 20M centre for the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences which will enable it to continue to develop world-class internationally competitive teaching and research....Faster and better emergency response through satellite telecoms
...econd scenario simulates a terrorist attack in the centre of a European capital. The resulting confusion leads to traffic jams and saturation of the mobile telephone network. The work of the many civil protection and health operators, who are all entering the scene at the same time, is hindered by a lack of...$30 million boost to dementia research
...ignificantinvestment in what will be a world-class centre for research in this very important field. UNSW is aleader in brain sciences. The new Precinct will significantly enhance our research efforts through thecombined activities of our Faculty of Medicine, POWMRI, the Prince of Wales Hospital and the Bla...UQ research heralds vaccine technology breakthrough
...ulty of Biological and Chemical Sciences. Research centre director Professor Robert Tindle said RSV cost millions of dollars a year inhealth care in Australia and billions in the United States. It can lead to severe and lifethreateninglower respiratory tract infection or bronchiolitis. About one in 1000 die...NeuroArm: Navigating the future of surgery
...atural extension of their support for the research centre that began with the development of the world's first intraoperative MRI scanner based on a movable high-field magnet. "As engineers, the technology involved in neuroArm intrigued us from the start. We really understood the challenges and appreciate...Headache-related work absences have a considerable socio-economic effect
...rt in a study carried out by a specialist headache centre felt they were much less effective at work and 91 per cent said they felt hampered by headaches on a daily basis, according to the March issue of Cephalalgia. "Migraines and tension-type headaches are much more common in peoples forties, when they ...Specialist centers increase chance of surviving abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
...patients. Peter Holt and his team concluded that a centre needed to be performing surgery on at least 43 abdominal aortic aneurysms before it could provide significantly greater chances of success. In this study, the benefit was present for non-ruptured and ruptured aneurysms alike. "We believe that patie...Effective medical response reduced deaths of critically injured after London bombings
...l medical teams and triage* to a specialist trauma centre is likely to have reduced deaths in those critical...ts: "A 'damage control' response shifts the trauma centre to an almost military footing, where all efforts are directed precisely at saving life and limb whil...Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
...delivered by the Image Analysis Group at the FMRIB centre in Oxford provides us with the utilities necessary for such studies. For instance, I am able to inform a specific patient how much exactly his or her brain has benefited from sobriety and, as a clinician, I believe this may be a very supportive part ...World-class Biomedical Research Center to be in West London
...e years, and makes the West London BRC the leading centre for the UK. Trust Chief Executives Derek Smith and Julian Nettel, and Rector of Imperial College London Sir Richard Sykes said, "We are delighted to be recognised for the innovative research which is carried out through our partnership to advance he...Liverpool launches 20 million project to develop medicines for children
... University of Liverpool acts as the co-ordinating centre for the network, based at the Institute of Child H...diatric Medicine and director of the co-ordinating centre said: This is the most important development towards improving childrens health that has happened du......d by concerns by clinical nurses from the Riverton centre that parents were choosing to ignore their crying newborn for fear it would "spoil" their baby to pick them up. Riverton clinical nurse and co-researcher Claire Halle said parents felt picking up their crying baby would create "bad habits" which wo...