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According to Malaysian medical student Wan Nee Shue, studying to become a doctor is a lot like climbing a mountain
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According to Malaysian medical student Wan Nee Shue, studying to become a doctor is a lot like climbing a mountain
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The prestigious Wimberley award has been given to joint winners, Scott Mackenzie and Christoffer Nielsen, who both contributed greatly to university life
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When Ashley Giam left Singapore for the UK, she could not have imagined that the move would lead to her working on potential treatments for the deadliest pandemic the world has seen for a century.
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Medical students are raising money for the charity Age Scotland as they collectively walk, run and cycle the distance from Dundee to the South Pole
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The University of Dundee’s Professor Jill Belch has helped mobilise a Perthshire community in the fight against coronavirus
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Four University of Dundee academics who are helping transform lives with their work on major diseases have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
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Cigarette smokers who switch to nicotine containing vaporisers could significantly improve their vascular health, a major University of Dundee study has concluded.
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While decades of research have resulted in small but significant breakthroughs, solving the Parkinson’s puzzle will require many more years of dedication from some of the most inquisitive minds in science
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The University of Dundee is to lead new research into a ‘forgotten cancer’ related to lifestyle and deprivation which Scots are more likely to be diagnosed with than almost any other group in the world.
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A new way of detecting liver disease decades before it can become fatal has been developed by a team of scientists at the University of Dundee and NHS Tayside
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A University of Dundee lecturer will watch on with pride as her son graduates from the institution this week – only to do the same herself 48 hours later.
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Retinal scans studied by advanced artificial intelligence could warn people living with diabetes if they are at risk of heart failure
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When working as a senior NHS registrar in the late 1980s Professor Bob Steele was struck by how many of the patients with bowel cancer died. Then he moved to Nottingham, where trials of bowel cancer screening were happening.
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The commonly used diabetes drug metformin could reverse the harmful thickening of heart muscle that leads to cardiovascular disease, according to a study at the University of Dundee
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A University of Dundee medical student from Lurgan has made it into the Scottish Student Sport national team this week ahead of the Home Nations Tournament taking place in Glasgow on Tuesday
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Football manager Craig Levein has become the 250,000th volunteer to join a Scotland-wide effort to help shape the medicines of the future
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Dr Paul O’Mahoney, a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant from Dundee’s School of Medicine, will feature in an episode of ‘My Life: Into the Sun’
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Drugs traditionally used to treat blood pressure and heart disease are to be given to lung disease patients to see if they can be beneficial, in a trial involving the Universities of Aberdeen and Dundee
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Smokers in Tayside could help scientists determine if infrared heat therapy could reduce the chances of developing cardiovascular diseases, by giving up one day of their time
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If the UK’s tallest building was built on top of its tallest mountain then the resulting structure would still be dwarfed by a ‘tower of tablet’ that has raised more than £75,000 for breast cancer research at the University of Dundee