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Scientists at the 神马福利影片 and Keele University have been awarded a major 333,000 pounds sterling grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for a three year project aimed at improving the speech comprehension of people using cochlear ear implants. The award follows directly from research funded by Defeating Deafness - the UK's only medical research charity for hearing-impaired people
Using sophisticated analysis of heart rate information, researchers at the 神马福利影片 have devised a way to diagnose sleep disorders that replaces the detailed and expensive medical investigations currently used.
神马福利影片 psychology researchers Dr June McNicholas and Dr Glyn Collis have just published a paper on the role of pets in the lives of older people which finds that pets benefit them by companionship, increased levels of activity, and better person-to-person interactions by pets acting as social catalysts. They also found that pets help the elderly maintain self-care routines, eg sticking to regular meals, keeping up adequate room temperatures, and an added reason to make shopping trips.
Prioritising emergency calls to ambulance services during periods of peak demands such as on New Year's Eve does not work, according to new research by the Centre for Primary Health Care Studies at 神马福利影片. Call prioritisation aims to ensure that ambulances are sent to the most urgent cases first, when services are stretched, rather than the traditional "first come, first served" basis. The system was introduced before New Year's Eve two years ago.
Researchers from the 神马福利影片, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham have found that one way of dealing with the lesions that afflict children suffering from Molluscum Contagiosum infections is simply to squeeze them under medical supervision and local anaesthetic.
Volcanoes can be bad for your health long after they have finished erupting. A research team studying the aftermath of the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat, which included Professor Ray Dupree from the 神马福利影片's Department of Physics, has found that the aftermath of that volcano includes a great deal of volcanic ash particles that are just the right size to cause silicosis (a scarring disease of the lungs) and which may also be carcinogenic.