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Courses in asthma and allergy from Imperial College

Advertisement on behalf of Imperial College Imperial College offer a range of courses in Allergy tailored to your career ambitions. From intensive short courses in allergic airways diseases and rhinitis...
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New AUKCAR Travel Fellowships for AUKCAR PhD students

New AUKCAR Travel Fellowships for AUKCAR PhD students AUKCAR is now welcoming applications to a competitive call for £300 bursaries to attend a conference in 2018.The bursaries can go towards...
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PLEASANT news

Findings from the PLEASANT trial have recently been published in the BMJ. The study found that the intervention increased the number of prescriptions collected by 30% in August and reduced...
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Paper explores variations in asthma mortality, hospital admissions and prevalence by socioeconomic status and region in England

The UK has some of the highest asthma mortality rates in the world amongst high-income countries in younger age groups, including the highest asthma admission rates in Europe and the highest rates of asthma symptoms in children globally...
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Review of the Prediction Modelling for Clinical Medicine Symposium

Held on Tuesday 24th April, the Prediction Modelling for Clinical Medicine Symposium was organised and chaired by Luke Daines, a fellow Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR) PhD student...
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The use of electronic alerts in primary care computer systems to identify the excessive prescription of short-acting beta(2)-agonists for people with asthma: a systematic review.

McKibben S, De Simoni A, Bush A, Thomas M, Griffiths C. 
NPJ Prim Care Respir Med. 2018 Apr 16;28(1):14. doi: 10.1038/s41533-018-0080-z. Review. PubMed PMID: 29662064.

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Prenatal maternal psychosocial stress and offspring's asthma and allergic disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Flanigan C, Sheikh A, DunnGalvin A, Brew BK, Almqvist C, Nwaru BI. 
Clin Exp Allergy. 2018 Apr;48(4):403-414. doi: 10.1111/cea.13091. Epub 2018 Feb 8. PubMed PMID: 29331049.

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Christos Stefanidis elected as new student representative

Congratulations Christos Stefanidis, who has recently been elected as Student Representative 2018-19 for the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research...
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Gwyn Davies honoured for her research in respiratory medicine

Congratulations to Gwyn Davies, who has recently been promoted to the position of Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Swansea University...
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Ethnic differences in the association between maternal vitamin D status and offspring asthma and wheeze: Findings from the Born in Bradford cohort study.

Santorelli G, Wright J, Sheikh A.
Allergy. 2018 Mar 23. doi: 10.1111/all.13447. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29572850.
 

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