Let's Talk About Health: Understanding Disease
Let's Talk About Health: Understanding Disease
It is aimed at senior school pupils interested in studying medicine, veterinary medicine or the life sciences at University as well as interested members of the general public and health professionals.
The series allows scientists pioneering new research at the University of Edinburgh to share their latest ideas and discoveries with the public and provides attendees with the opportunity to advance their knowledge of health and what goes wrong in disease.
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Healing the Damaged Gut in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - From the scientist, the patient and the doctorGwo-Tzer Ho, Emily Thompson and Kris McGuire, Centre for…
Healing the Damaged Gut in Inflammatory Bowel…
From Peter Crooks
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Let's talk about dementia - what happens to the brain and how can we fix it?Colin Smith and Tara Spires-Jones, UK Dementia Research Institute at The University of…
Let's talk about dementia - what happens to…
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The future of female fertilityNorah Spears and Evelyn Telfer, Biomedical Sciences'Let's Talk About Health' is all about advancing our knowledge of normal…
The Future of Female Fertility
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Podgy ponies and corpulent cobs; insights into the growing problem of equine obesityJohn Keen and Ruth Morgan, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary StudiesThe statement…
Podgy ponies and corpulent cobs; insights into…
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‘Heads and Tales: Stories of Dogs and Their Breathing Disorders’ Richard Mellanby and Jeff Schoenebeck, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary StudiesDogs with…
Heads and tales: Stories of dogs and their…
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Charlie Gourley: Nicola Murray Centre for Ovarian Cancer Research & Colin Semple: Institute of Genetics and Molecular MedicineIt has long been known that as cancer…
Know your enemy: unlocking the secrets of the…
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Poor Air Quality: polluting hearts and mindsTom Russ, Clinical Brain Sciences, Mark Miller, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular ResearchAir pollution is estimated…
Poor Air Quality: polluting hearts and minds
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Lorna Marson, Transplant Surgery & MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Jamie Davies, Discovery Brain Sciences 5000 patients are currently waiting for a kidney…
New kidneys for old: a challenge for surgery and…
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Fiona Denison, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, Marc Desmulliez, Heriot-Watt UniversityA major challenge in therapy is to ensure that drugs are precisely delivered to…
Inventing Medical Devices: The Hypodermic Needle…
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It’s a Dogslife – using the web to understand dogs’ health over their lifetimeDylan Clements, Carys Pugh, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary StudiesA…
It’s a Dogslife – using the web to…
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Moving towards rabies elimination in Africa and Asia –a ‘One Health’ approach to help animals and humansRichard Mellanby, Stella Mazeri, Clinical…
Moving towards rabies elimination in Africa and…
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The number of people diagnosed with liver cancer in the UK is 10 times higher now than it was at the end of the 1970s. It continues to be seen as a cancer caused by…
Liver cancer: the impending epidemic
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Being born too soon or too small affects around 15 million babies around the world each year. Some of these babies grow and develop well, while others experience…
The effect of being born early on children and…
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Appendicitis is the most common abdominal emergency needing surgery. One in 13 people will suffer from appendicitis at some point in their lives. During appendicitis,…
A fat lot of good! Appendicitis and the benefits…
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Speakers Sarah Stock, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health; and Karen Chapman, BHF/UoE Centre for Cardiovascular Science Preterm birth: Can we do better?Preterm birth is…
Preterm birth: Can we do better?
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