19 September 2013
2008 economic crisis could be to blame for thousands of excess suicides worldwide. Researchers are suggesting that the 2008 global economic crisis could be to blame for the increase in suicide rates in European and American countries, particularly among males and in countries with higher levels of job losses. The findings, led by researchers at the universities of Bristol, Oxford and Hong Kong, were recently published on bmj.com.
16 September 2013
Dr Raquel Granell, Research Fellow in the School of Social and Community Medicine won the Best Abstract Award for a Young Investigator at the European Respiratory Society Annual Congress 2013. Raquel's paper, entitled, "Associations of BMI, fat mass and lean mass with asthma in childhood: Mendelian randomization study," was selected as the best abstract submitted to the Paediatric assembly and beat off stiff competition to win the overall prize at an awards ceremony in Barcelona for young scientists on Tuesday 10th September. Raquel also received a travel award from the British Lung Foundation to present her work at the meeting. Agnes von Sonnenschein, recently ERS Visiting Fellow in the School also received an award for best abstract in Paediatric Respiratory Epidemiology at the same ceremony & presented her work from ALSPAC at the ERS congress.
16 September 2013
Two new research projects that aim to advance treatment for people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome [CFS] or Myalgic Encephalopathy [ME], which affects an estimated 600,000 adults and children in the UK, have been awarded funding totalling nearly £1.2 million from the National Institute for Health Research [NIHR].
10 September 2013
A study exploring the frequency of chlamydia antibodies among young women – a marker for current and past infection – found this increased between 1993 and 2002, and then declined from 2007 to 2010. The first ever English population-based study of chlamydia antibodies, led by researchers from the University of Bristol, Public Health England and Imperial College, was published on 21 August in PLOS ONE.
10 September 2013
New research from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol shows that mothers who drank alcohol and coffee, smoked and had a coal fire in their home during pregnancy were likely to have higher levels of lead in their blood than women who didn’t. Dietary calcium and iron seemed to have a protective effect.
9 September 2013
Congratulations to those who have achieved progression to Research Fellow in the School:- Angela Beattie, Isabel de Salis, Raquel Granell, Rachel Hughes, Natasha Martin Congratulations to them all!