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News from January 2015

Collaboration helps increase kidney disease research

Collaboration helps increase kidney disease research

26 Jan 15 - More kidney disease patients are being offered opportunities to take part in clinical research thanks to a research collaboration

 
Sheffield patients reveal how clinical research improves care

Sheffield patients reveal how clinical research improves care

21 Jan 15 - TWO SHEFFIELD patients have spoken about the vital role clinical research plays in providing better treatments for conditions such as their own.

 
Sheffield patient first in world to take part in pioneering cancer trial

Sheffield patient first in world to take part in pioneering cancer trial

12 Jan 15 - Researchers from Weston Park Hospital, in collaboration with the NIHR Clinical Research Network: Yorkshire and Humber, first in world to recruit patient to global drugs research trial aiming to better control secondary breast cancer.

 
Power of speech could improve dementia diagnosis

Power of speech could improve dementia diagnosis

6 Jan 15 - Researchers in Sheffield are analysing a new 'conversational' technique to help distinguish between dementia and other causes of memory loss