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We're the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London. We're at the forefront of medical education and research and make a real impact on health-related challenges for the benefit of local and global populations. www.qmul.ac.uk/fmd
Researchers discover air pollution particles hitching a ride around the body on red blood cells, but wearing a face mask reduces the threat. tiny.cc/ukjt001 @europeanrespsoc.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social
Research carried out by Queen Mary academics, including Tom Powles, has led to NICE approving a new treatment for people with advanced bladder cancer.
Learn more: shorturl.at/WWZ2U
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Vote for the Centre of the Cell! Our wonderful colleagues have been nominated for a Time Well Spent award! The Centre of the Cell is recognised as a fantastic and 'sneakily educational' destination for children in London.
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Prof Manchanda said: "We for the first time define the risk at which we should offer mastectomy. This could potentially prevent can potentially prevent ~6500 breast cancer cases annually in UK women”.
Professor Ranjit Manchanda, Dr Rosa Legood, with colleagues from Manchester University and Peking University created a new economic evaluation model to accurately predict the level of risk that would make mastectomy a more cost-effective treatment.
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More women at higher risk of breast cancer should be offered a mastectomy, according to researchers at @qmul.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social New analysis has found it's cost-effective way of reducing risk of developing breast cancer compared to breast screening and medication.
To mark World Brain Day, our Co-Director @claudiacooper.bsky.social spoke to @qmulfmd.bsky.social about:
🔵 How #denpruQM fits into the wider @nihr.bsky.social community
🟢 Our research and its impact
🟠 What gives her hope for the future
Read the full interview on LinkedIn 👇
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📰Could a breath test detect blood cancer? New research from @richeslab.bsky.social funded by @bartscharity.bsky.social suggests molecules exhaled in the breath might enable development of a simple, low-cost test to diagnose lymphoma.
@qmul.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social #medsky #oncosky 🧪
Happy to share our paper investigating the feasibility and accuracy of perioperative continuous glucose monitoring in patients undergoing major surgery.
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Senior author Professor Dennis Ougrin from the Youth Resilience Research Unit @qmul-wiph.bsky.social said: "At a time when millions of displaced young people remain underserved, this research suggests a promising step toward meeting their urgent mental health needs - one mobile device at a time.”
Professor JR Weisz from Harvard University said: "Children displaced by conflict are at elevated risk of long-term psychological harm, but access to mental health services is often limited or non-existent. In our trial we found the effects of our 30-minute intervention lasted for four months."
The results, published today in The Lancet Primary Care, found that this brief mental health intervention reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety in displaced young people at one month and four months after the 30-minute intervention.
They created a Ukrainian-language version of an evidence-based digital mental health intervention called Project SOLVE. Delivered in schools through mobile devices, it teaches problem solving by providing strategies for solving everyday problems, such as school stress and interpersonal conflict.
An international group of researchers, led by Professor JR Weisz from @harvard.edu and colleagues including senior author Professor Dennis Ougrin from @qmul.bsky.social, tested a digital mental health intervention with 709 Ukrainian students, aged 10-18, who had been displaced to Poland.
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Short-term digital mental health interventions reduces depression and anxiety in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war - a first of its kind randomised controlled trial found delivering a problem solving digital mental health intervention significantly reduced symptoms.
Well done to all the students and staff from our Institute of Dentistry who took part!
Are you interested in healthcare leadership? Watch Rahma Hegy, the Barts and the London Students' Association President @qmulfmd.bsky.social share her experiences of taking our Healthcare Leadership Foundations online short course! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rccy... bit.ly/healthcare-l....
Many congratulations, Professor O'Toole!
Congratulations to our Bioinformatician Beth Hughes on getting paper of the year at today's @blizardinstitute.bsky.social symposium for work during her PhD. @qmul.bsky.social @qmulfmd.bsky.social
📰 Cells’ recycling system (autophagy) plays a surprising role in shaping immune cell DNA, new research from the BCI shows.
The findings could have implications for the development of certain #bloodcancer and #autoimmune diseases.
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Dr John Ford, leader of Queen Mary's Health Equity Evidence Centre, gives a run-down of the hits and the misses for health inequalities in the UK's 10 year Health Plan.
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Her book explores how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine from its inception, and discusses the ways this approach widens entrenched health inequalities. Find out more at breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com
We're delighted that the new book, 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing', by @drrageshri.bsky.social has been long-listed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing!
Queen Mary has acquired significant land in Whitechapel adjacent to its existing campus, in an agreement signed with DHSC @healthmedia.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.
Visit our website to find out more: www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...
The research, published in Nature, gives an opportunity for health-care systems to pinpoint where their region sits on this trajectory and provides a clear roadmap for anticipating and managing the growing burden of IBD today and in the future.
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A new study by an international consortium of researchers including Professor Paul Kelly and Dr Phoebe Hodges from @blizardinstitute.bsky.social has identified the 4 epidemiological stages of Inflammatory bowel disease (#IBD).
Are you a doctor with 3+ yrs' clinical experience ready to take your academic career further? The #DClin at #QMUL
@qmulfmd.bsky.social offers flexible study, NHS placements & research training.
📅 Webinar: 17 July, 9am UK
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