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7 ways universities are supporting and improving mental health
Cancer Research
Helping and supporting the NHS
Scottish Lifesavers
Supporting those with dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Welsh University Stories
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Student-Centred Breakthroughs
Using the arts to improve health and wellbeing
World Music Day
Scottish Lifesavers
A new technique to help dementia patients communicate
Dr Maggie Ellis from the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews has spent dec…
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Bowel cancer screening programme
When working as a senior NHS registrar in the late 1980s, Professor Bob Steele was struck by the high mortal…
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Cutting HIV infection
Pioneering research into HIV prevention by Professor Claudia Estcourt is supporting Scotland’s drive to el…
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Exercising with a stoma
It is estimated that around 13000 people undergo stoma surgery in the UK every year due to inflammatory bowe…
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Giving a voice to people who have lost the ability to speak
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh are helping to restore speech to people who have lost their voi…
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Helping football fans to get fitter
The University of Glasgow is harnessing the loyalty men feel to their local football club to tackle the prob…
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Helping intensive care patients
More than 15,000 people are admitted to an intensive care in Scotland every year. Those who survive often su…
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Improving home ventilation
The impact of indoor air quality on people’s health and the need for good ventilation are becoming increas…
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Improving the health and wellbeing of Scottish prisoners
Jess Thorpe is the first Lecturer in the Arts in Justice at RCS who has developed this field of research for…
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Leucovorin treatment for colorectal cancer
The treatment Leucovorin® was produced from research conducted at the University of Strathclyde in the 1980…
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New app to make homes more dementia-friendly
People with dementia often require regular support from healthcare services, sometimes spending longer in ho…
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Pioneering speech therapy
Dr Sara Wood, a clinical phonetics researcher and speech and language therapist at QMU, transforms the lives…
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Providing clean water to rural communities in the developing world
Millions of people around the world are exposed to high levels of arsenic in water, which carries a risk of…
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Supporting people with dementia
The Dementia Champions programme is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by the University of Wes…
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Supporting victims of childhood abuse
A ground-breaking self-help resource for survivors of childhood abuse produced by Abertay University is bein…
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The world's first full body MRI scanner
A professor at the University of Aberdeen made breakthroughs leading to the MRI scanner.
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Transforming children's lives through sport
Thousands of schoolchildren in Aberdeen have witnessed the transformative power of sport, thanks to the annu…
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