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PROMPT training tackles emergencies in pregnancy and birth
15 October 2012
PROMPT (Practical Obstetric Multi-Professional Training) is an obstetric emergencies training package now used in 85 per cent of UK maternity units. With the potential to save millions in litigation costs for health services, PROMPT also looks set to achieve substantial reductions in preventable perinatal harm both in the UK and worldwide.
Cot deaths: How a Bristol research pioneer has saved more than 100,000 young lives worldwide
18 July 2012
Cot deaths in the UK have fallen by 80 per cent over the last 20 years following groundbreaking research by Peter Fleming, Professor of Infant Health and Developmental Physiology and Dr Pete Blair, Senior Research Fellow and their team
Improving care for children with cleft lip and palate
11 July 2012
A Bristol research team, headed by Professor Jonathan Sandy from Bristol Dental School, undertook a nationwide review of services for cleft palate patients in the UK, leading to dramatic improvements for patients and their families.
Saving thousands of newborns by cooling them down
1 June 2012
Pioneered by Professors Thoresen and Whitelaw in Bristol, a treatment which cools newborns now saves 1,500 from death and disability every year in the developed world.
Two’s company — investigating the relationships between Candida albicans and other microbes
15 March 2012
Candida albicans can live inside the human body for a long time without any problems when suddenly, they turn on us and cause disease. Why this happens is the subject of a NIH-funded research project which has opened up a new line of oral microbiological enquiry.
Two weeks in a busy dental clinic in Kenya
20 February 2012
For 4th-year student Saagar Patel, the high staff-to-patient ratios, the necessary speed of dental care provision and the important educational role played by dentists in a Nairobi hospital really struck home.
Dental practice in a Tanzanian hospital
13 February 2012
Having spent their training to date in the UK, dental students Lydia Harris and Rob Mahal decided to investigate the provision of dental care in a developing country. Their research took them to Tanzania where they found that things were very different from what they were used to.
Engaging with teaching in the Far East
13 February 2012
Oral microbiologist Dr Angela Nobbs from the School of Oral and Dental Sciences provided Japanese colleagues with a taste of the school's interactive teaching methods through an intensive lecture tour at Kyushu University in January 2011.
Providing primary care in a community setting
13 February 2012
Dr Louise Nash is heading up an exciting new initiative to take primary dental care services to the residents of south Bristol.