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Dr Iain Jackson and colleagues from our Manchester BRC Hearing Health theme discuss how new technologies and fresh approaches might offer valuable insight into young infants’ behavioural responses to sound.
Continue reading full article: Facing up to the challenge of behavioural observation in infant hearing assessment
A new clinical study, designed to assess whether breast density can be accurately determined in young women using low dose mammograms, is launched by Cancer Prevention and Early Detection theme researchers.
Continue reading full article: New study addresses early breast cancer detection in high risk young women
New city-wide imaging strategy to aid advanced radiotherapy research
Continue reading full article: New city-wide imaging strategy to aid advanced radiotherapy research
First Manchester trial of combined imaging techniques underway with cervical cancer patients.
Continue reading full article: First Manchester trial of combined imaging techniques underway with cervical cancer patients
A systematic review of research has revealed that the toxic effects on the lung of drugs commonly taken to treat a range of common conditions is much more widespread than thought.
Continue reading full article: Drugs’ side effects in lungs ‘more widespread than thought’
A study of women who had gastric sleeve or bypass surgery for obesity has found that precancerous tissue in their womb reverted to normal tissue when they lost weight.
Continue reading full article: Weight loss surgery for obese women prevents womb cancer
Manchester conference July 2019: Phase I: Where Science becomes Medicine
Continue reading full article: Phase I: Where Science becomes Medicine Conference : Sunday 14 – Tuesday 16 July 2019
Three post graduate students - Mikey Lebrett, Conrado Guerreo Quilles and Vicky Smith - have joined the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre this autumn to add more intellectual firepower to the cancer themes’ research portfolio.
Continue reading full article: Cancer themes research boosted by intake of new PhD students