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Dr Piers Dawes, Hearing Health Minimising Risk Programme Lead discusses how Manchester BRC aims to help people with hearing problems have a better quality of life - by helping them to help themselves.
Continue reading full article: The future of audiology – helping people to help themselves
Women screened for breast cancer could be given greater information on how likely they are to develop breast cancer, possible treatments to reduce their risk, and if it did develop, how likely it will respond to different treatments, according to new research.
Continue reading full article: New research improves risk prediction, prevention and treatment of breast cancer
The BRC Rapid Translational Incubator is holding "Contracting advice for trials and studies in GM," on 13th June. The session is aimed at staff and students affiliated with the BRC, CRF, The University of Manchester and/or Health Innovation Manchester.
Continue reading full article: Manchester BRC networking and webinar series: Trial and Study Contracting – Thursday 13th June
Researcher’s 1st original, 1st author article achieves slot in best international rheumatology journal
Continue reading full article: Researcher’s 1st original, 1st author article achieves slot in best international rheumatology journal
People with hearing loss are up to five times more likely to be affected by dementia than those without hearing loss. To try to understand this link, national charities have teamed up to invest more than £150,000 into a research project conducted by Manchester researchers.
Continue reading full article: Crucial funding invested to understand link between hearing loss and dementia
Celia Hulme Manchester BRC Doctoral student, a Deaf BSL user and Olivia Joseph, Manchester BRC PPIE Project Manager tell us how and why they developed research’s first Deaf Experts by Experience group (DEEG) in the UK.
Continue reading full article: Making health research more inclusive for Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) community
Most research in the NHS requires NHS Ethical Approval, provided through the HRA. This webinar on 20th June 2019 will give you an overview of the key stages and main considerations you will need to take into account when navigating the complex area of making an ethics application.
Continue reading full article: Manchester BRC Networking and Webinar: NHS Ethics application overview – Thursday 20th June
In her blog for Mental Health Awareness Week (13 – 19 May), Dr Georgia Lada, a psychiatrist with a special interest in psycho-dermatology, considers the psychiatric co-morbidities of psoriasis.
Continue reading full article: Researcher investigates the links between mental health and psoriasis