Congratulations to PhD students, Io Hui and Charlie Winn, on their recent graduations! Io and Charlie are the first PhD students from the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research to...
We’re pleased to welcome two new members of staff to the central team at the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, both based in Edinburgh. Susan Morrow Susan Morrow has...
Fantastic news from Wales as Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, has announced £2.5mn of funding to develop new ways to prevent and treat respiratory disease. The money will be used to...
Children exposed to air pollution have poor lung health, putting them at risk of lifelong breathing disorders, new research suggests. The study, published in Lancet Public Health, is a collaboration...
UCL-based PhD student Christina Pearce has co-authored a paper alongside Louise Fleming, published in Expert Review of Clinical Immunology. The paper examines some of the current methods for monitoring adherence...
We are pleased to announce that Dr Anna De Simoni will join Dr Allison Worth as Co-Lead of the Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) platform. Anna is a Clinical Lecturer...
We are delighted to announce the launch of the IMPlementing IMProved Asthma self-management as RouTine (IMP²ART) study, which aims to help general practices embed supported self-management into routine asthma care...
Great to see the ARRISA-UK study protocol published in BMC Trials this week. ARRISA-UK is a randomised controlled trial of GP practice staff training and high risk patient identification and...
A warm welcome to our newest colleague, Tracy Jackson, who has joined us as a Research Fellow in Edinburgh working on our Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) and REACH platforms...
A recent study has investigated two online health communities for patients with chronic respiratory conditions - Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation. Online health communities can influence health, use of...