The University of Bristol announced the award of two University Teaching Fellowships to academics in the Schools of Social and Community Medicine and Modern Languages. The awards, which mark exceptional practice in teaching, were awarded to Dr Trevor Thompson in the School of Social and Community Medicine and Miss Gloria Visintini in the School of Modern Languages.
A new centre that will enable surgeons to learn more about how to deal with a range of conditions, assess new surgical techniques and discover surgical breakthroughs to help deliver better care to thousands of patients will open in Bristol.
Children at risk for eating disorders on average have a higher IQ and better working memory but have poorer attentional control, according to researchers at the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH). The study, published in the journal Psychological Medicine, looked at what characteristics might make some children more likely to develop an eating disorder later in life.
Micrima, a Bristol University spin-out company, has won the Royal Photographic Society’s Combined Royal Colleges Medal for 2012.
Young people with joint hypermobility, also known as double-jointedness, are at increased risk of developing musculoskeletal pain in their teenage years, according to new research led by academics at the University of Bristol.
Bristol’s two medical faculties have been awarded funding under a new initiative co-ordinated by the Academy of Medical Sciences to encourage medical and dental students to consider a research career.
Pioneering work into reducing blockages in heart bypass grafts following surgery will continue in Bristol thanks to a grant from national heart charity Heart Research UK. The researchers from the Bristol Heart Institute at the University of Bristol have been given funding of over £130,000 from the charity for their work into preventing the future failure of coronary artery vein grafts which are used in surgery.
Do we need to rethink life's cut-off point, wonders medical ethicist Dr Richard Huxtable in the latest issue of New Scientist.
Patients have expressed an appetite for potential cancer symptoms to be checked out much sooner than current NHS thresholds guidelines suggest, new research has revealed
A research centre which focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of children has been awarded £4.3 million funding to continue its work for a further five years.
