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More than one in six elderly patients across Scotland with dementia are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs known to be of limited benefit and causing significant harm, a major study carried out at the University of Dundee has confirmed.Bruce Guthrie, Professor of Primary Care Medicine at Dundee, and a team including Dr Stella Clark from NHS Fife, carried out the study in response to long-term c...
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Drugs used to treat the epidemic disease African sleeping sickness must be used prudently to prevent the parasite acquiring resistance to current medicines, a new study at the University of Dundee has shown.Currently, the World Health Organisation estimates that around 400,000 people are infected with the disease each year, with an annual death toll of around 50,000.Last year a new treatment was i...
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The University of Dundee is this week hosting a visit from representatives of the Dasman Diabetes Institute, Kuwait, as the two institutions continue to build links.The visit to Dundee is being hosted by Professor Andrew Morris, Professor of Medicine at the University of Dundee.'This visit builds on previous events in Kuwait which have been very successful and we look forward to further developing...
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The School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Dundee has made a number of key appointments to boost research into cancer care.Nora Kearney has been appointed as Professor of Nursing and Cancer Care, and brings with her to Dundee a team of experienced researchers. In a separate appointment, Dr Alison Harrow has taken up a post as Cancer Research UK Senior Research Nurse.'We are delighted...
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Opening - Tuesday August 31st, 5.30 pm.Cornhill House, Perth Royal InfirmaryThe Gannochy Trust Clinical Research Suite, a new facility on the Perth Royal Infirmary site funded by the University of Dundee’s £3million Diabetes Research Campaign, will be formally opened on Tuesday August 31st.Radio and TV personality Fred MacAulay, who hails from Perth and is a former Rector of the Univer...
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