Author: Hippocratic Post

Tissue Access for Patient Benefit (TAPb) is a UCL and Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust initiative, based in the UCL Division of Surgery. For over a decade, TAPb has been linking laboratory-based research to clinical trials by enabling hospital patients to donate tissue and blood samples for research. This biobanking activity usually supports research in […]

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The wellbeing of healthcare professionals will be pushed to the top of the policy agenda when the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow holds its next webinar on Tuesday 12th May 2020. The college’s latest free online event, which will be chaired by college President Professor Jackie Taylor, will hear from three key […]

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On International Nurses Day 2020 (May 12), the University of Bradford celebrates the role of nurses and its ongoing contribution to providing high quality teaching for healthcare professionals. At a time when the spotlight seems ever on healthcare, it is a measure of the quality of teaching at the University of Bradford’s Faculty of Health […]

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To mark International Nurses Day, in this the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, Nursing Now has made a film to shine a light on the incredible work of nurses around the world. This film uses the voices of people from different walks of life, from actors to footballers and global health-stakeholders to highlight […]

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Sudden cardiac death is a common cause of death in patients with reduced systolic ejection function. As part of a long-term observational study, MedUni Vienna researchers from the Division of Cardiology have now shown the importance of the diastolic filling function: the less the heart fills when there is diastolic dysfunction, the more likely patients […]

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