The One Show meets the man who saved Kegworth crash victims
January 10, 2014
If you missed it go to BBC iplayer to hear Professor Angus Wallace talk about the moment he was reunited with two victims of the Kegworth aircrash. He also recounts the moment he was faced with carrying out a life saving operation in mid-air and gives a demonstration of how it was done. The account was …
25 Years on the BBC’s One Show talks to Kegworth crash surgeon
January 9, 2014
Professor Angus Wallace will appear on the BBC’s One Show tonight to talk about his research in the wake of the Kegworth air crash which led to improvements in flying safety. Professor Wallace, an expert in orthopaedic and accident surgery, experienced the disaster, on 8 January 1989, from two different perspectives. Twenty five years ago …
Dementia patients need the ‘real deal’
December 9, 2013
We need to use every means at our disposal to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers, says Tom Dening, Professor of Dementia Research at The University of Nottingham. Professor Dening heads a research group at the University dedicated to high quality, useful research looking at how people with dementia spend their …
Lancet debate on benefits of ‘brown fat’
November 12, 2013
Professor Michael E Symonds from The University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine, comments in the Lancet today on new research, published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, which suggests ethnicity might affect the function of brown fat – the body’s good fat. Professor Symonds and his team are studying the benefits of brown fat – …
Longest stays in Europe make scarce hospital beds harder to get
October 17, 2013
Why is a leading psychiatrist concerned about not having the resources needed to provide psychiatric care? Martin Baggaley, South London and Maudsley’s clinical director hit the headlines this week when he stated that too many psychiatric beds had been closed. It is possible to specify fairly precisely how many beds are sufficient to meet the …
It’s all about dementia…
October 10, 2013
Nottingham’s Tom Dening is celebrating his recent professorship with an inaugural lecture all about the disease he’s dedicated his career to — dementia. The lecture — Mrs Finch and the Fishbowl — concerns three journeys: Prof Dening’s own, the way in which current dementia research is heading, and dementia itself as a pathway from risk, …
Jackie Ashley: ‘very little support’ post-hospital for husband Andrew Marr
August 2, 2013
‘False economy’ in stroke care Andrew Marr’s wife Jackie Ashley has written in The Guardian about her husband’s stroke – and his aftercare. While she praises her husband’s hospital care, she believes that the support stroke survivors get when they go home, leaves a lot to be desired. She writes: ‘I’ve been contacted by many, …
DAY 1…Big brother style influenza transmission study begins…..
March 8, 2013
Today, a major study begins aimed at understanding how influenza is transmitted between humans. Twenty healthy volunteers have been inoculated with a human flu virus under controlled quarantine conditions. Over the next few days they will socialise with other volunteers and scientists from the Universities of Nottingham (UK) and Maryland (USA) working in partnership with …
Will we learn from the Winterbourne View findings?
August 7, 2012
A report into abuse at a private hospital has put the way in which care for vulnerable adults is commissioned and monitored back into the media spotlight. Deborah Kitson, Chief Excutive of the Ann Craft Trust — a leading charity committed to safeguarding disabled children and vulnerable adults from abuse which is based at the …
MRI scanner heads for CERN
July 25, 2012
One of the original MRI scanners, which helped pioneer research into neurosicence and physiology at The University of Nottingham, is heading for a new life at CERN. The 3T MR Scanner, which opened windows onto the working of the brain and body, was installed 20 years ago in the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre. …
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