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HIC are delighted to announce their leadership and collaboration in 3 major new projects researching chronic pain.
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Delighted to announce exciting new functionality within the Health Data Research gateway, delivered by the Dundee jointly led CO-CONNECT project.
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Learning lessons from the pandemic could help protect care home residents from future infection outbreaks, a University of Dundee expert has said.
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Using breast screening clinics to introduce lifestyle advice has the potential to improve women’s health, a University of Dundee study has found.
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Work to build on Dundee’s world-class expertise in biomedical sciences is set to begin in earnest after the ‘Growing the Tay Cities Biomedical Cluster’ project was officially signed off by the Tay Cities Region Joint Committee today (February 19).
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Addressing an urgent need to develop better, more affordable vaccines and drugs for diseases that are devastating in lower income countries.
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We are using a collection of over 30 million clinical images and applying artificial intelligence to recognise warning signs which may mean a patient's health is at risk.
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Even a global pandemic has not proven formidable enough to prevent one-woman tablet-making machine Fiona Edwards from raising thousands of pounds for research at the University of Dundee.
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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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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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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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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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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
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People who eat higher levels of dietary fibre and whole grains have lower rates of non-communicable diseases compared with people who eat lesser amounts, while links for low glycaemic load and low glycaemic index diets are less clear
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Dundee Institute for Healthcare Simulation (DIHS) has taken delivery of a leading-edge surgical robot