School of Allied Health Sciences
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Constructing better health and wellbeing? Understanding structural constraints on promoting health and wellbeing in the UK Construction Industry”
(Article)The construction industry has high rates of work related ill health and early retirement due to stress, injury and illness. Whilst there have been more recent calls for a ‘health like safety’ narrative within the industry, ... -
Toxicology training to decontaminate environments affected by chemicals.
(Conference)Health professionals will be required to have some foundation knowledge in environmental toxicology to combat increasing morbidity/mortality indices due to environmental contamination. However, very little training in these ... -
Addressing student retention and engagement using new technology.
(Conference)A range of strategies to improve retention and progression of Biomedical Science students at De Montfort University (DMU) implemented in 2016/17 included: an intensive induction week with social/networking events involving ... -
Web-based learning and teaching resources for microscopic detection of human parasites.
(Conference)DMU e-Parasitology (http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk) presents novel web-based resources co-developed by EU academics at De Montfort University (DMU) for the teaching and learning of microscopic diagnoses of common and emerging ... -
Mental Health Disclosure in the Public Eye: Accounting for and Managing Absences From Professional Sporting Competition
(Article)The purpose of this paper is to consider how professional sports players and their sporting clubs and associations publicly manage the disclosure of mental health issues that result in a players enforced absence from ... -
Sequence-Specific Detection of Aristolochia DNA – A Simple Test for Contamination of Herbal Products
(Article)Herbal medicines are used globally for their health benefits as an alternative therapy method to modern medicines. The market for herbal products has increased rapidly over the last few decades, but this has in turn ... -
Product authenticity versus globalisation - The Tulsi case
(Article)Using the Indian medicinal plant Tulsi (Holy Basil) as a case study, we have tested to what extent the discrepancy between vernacular and scientific nomenclature can be resolved, whether the presumed chemical diversity ... -
The elicitation and management of multiple health concerns in GP consultations.
(Article)Objective: To describe the nature of patient concerns and to explore if, when and how they are addressed by GPs in the UK. Methods: Detailed coding and descriptive analysis of 185 video recordings from the EPaC ... -
Routines of resistance: an ethnography of the care of people living with dementia in acute hospital wards and its consequences
(Article)Background There is little research examining resistance, refusal or rejection of care by people living with dementia within acute hospital wards despite the prevalence of dementia in adult hospital populations. Objectives To ... -
Markers of oxidative stress, skeletal muscle mass and function, and their responses to resistance exercise training in older adults
(Article)BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress (OS) negatively affects skeletal muscle homeostasis in experimental models of ageing. However, little is known about the associations between circulating OS markers and parameters of muscle ... -
The mediating effect of self-disgust on emotion regulation and eating disorder symptoms: A longitudinal perspective.
(Conference)1) Background There is a substantial body of literature supporting the view that disordered eating behaviour is broadly characterized by emotion dysregulation but little attention has been paid to the possible mediators ... -
Associations with disgust sensitivity, anxiety and levels of sensory processing
(Conference)The factors that may contribute to the emergence of self-disgust have not yet been established (Power, Overton & Simpson, 2015) however there is an increasing interest into the physiological and inherent contributors to ... -
It’s like the onion skins are stripped away; Caregiver accounts of supporting a long-term partner through cancer
(Conference)Purpose: To explore the experiences of caring for a long-term partner or spouse through cancer diagnosis, treatment and aftercare. Background: Although research around caregiving is becoming more theoretically advanced ... -
Histology resources for promoting blended learning
(Conference)Human health courses at universities are facing different challenges to provide students with real laboratory experiences due to the combination of large course cohorts with a shortage of academic staff, resources and time. ... -
Novel resources for learning the identification of human-related parasites.
(Conference)Microscopic detection of human-related parasites in a range of clinical samples remains the cornerstone of parasitological diagnosis despite recent advances in technology and molecular sciences. However, the use of the ... -
Teaching intervention to enhance HIV infection awareness in a biomedical science degree
(Conference)Condom use remains the predominant prophylactic intervention to control rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, chemoprophylactic strategies, which involve pre-exposure prophyaxis (PrEP) and ... -
Teaching medical parasitology in a new Physician Associate master’s programme.
(Conference)The programme of Physician Associate (PA) is a relatively new Master (MSc) in the United Kingdom (UK) to train future health care professionals that will work under the supervision of a medical doctor as part of a medical ... -
Students’ opinion regarding the Pharmacy degree module “Integrated Practice Pharmacy”
(Book chapter)La asignatura Farmacia Práctica Integrada (6 ECTS) es una asignatura obligatoria del Grado de Farmacia de la Universidad de Alcalá. Consta de una parte teórica y otra práctica en forma de seminarios. Además de ser impartida ... -
Stearoyl-CoA-Desaturase Inhibition Significantly Reduces the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer
(Conference)Aims: To determine the potency of Stearoyl-CoA-Desaturase 1 (SCD1) inhibition as a viable treatment option or chemotherapy supplementation for patients with Pancreatic Cancer and how it affects tumour-derived microparticle ... -
Stearoyl-CoA-Desaturase 1 inhibition induces apoptosis in Pancreatic Cancer cells
(Conference)Pancreatic cancer (PC) is an aggressive cancer with advanced disease at diagnosis and lack of effective therapy. PC tumours carry a mutated KRAS gene essential to their growth and spread, which plays a key role in deregulating ...
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