Another week, another conference. This time at the annual conference of the Medical Device Manufacturing Centre in Heriot watt uni. Lots of very interesting talks from across the med tech and innovation landscape
#Medtech#innovation#Scotland#NHS
We are opening up 'internship' positions for our research on auditory-motor coupling to music in persons with MS and persons with cerebellar conditions, combined with EEG recordings. See https://t.co/LmqQ8uMb1S
Our researchers have created a micro-costing toolkit to to help bring high value cell and gene therapies to NHS patients. https://t.co/QPJnElcSTA To find out more click here: https://t.co/q66PheVuwM
In memoriam: It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our friend and colleague Adrian Mironas who passed away on January 24th. Adrian joined as a Health Services Researcher in 2019 and was a valued team member who will be greatly missed personally and professionally
Exercise increases chronic levels of BDNF in multiple sclerosis. Studies are few and results inconclusive on other neurotrophic factors.
https://t.co/tn4rsIs5Xp
Thank you @HvidLars @CampbelEv@CoulterEH@LornaPaul@UDalgas for supervision and your collaboration on my first paper!
We’ve assessed a Unique Device Identifier (UDI) system for recording, identifying and recalling medical devices, at the request of Scottish Government. See the advice for NHSScotland:
https://t.co/K5h9CVaLvA
Our Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) has published a recommendation for ‘HeartFlow FFRCT for estimating fractional flow reserve from coronary CT angiography’. Read the report:
https://t.co/AlBZP8zNrS
We asked Keith Park from @mssocietyuk about his experience of contributing to the Scottish Health Technologies Group #HTA advice. Check out what Keith said here:
https://t.co/r9b0lptYad
Scottish Health Technologies Group provides advice to NHSScotland on health technologies.
There's now a dedicated website for this important part of our organisation: https://t.co/3A73a4RLNz
The Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) has produced a range of short animations to describe the varied work they do in the field of health technology assessment #HTA. Check out their first animation on the new website:
https://t.co/WrD3e9k7rK
Our new article exploring strength training in frail and healthy older adults. Results indicate that load worked at doesn't influence the efficacy of exercise as long the muscle is worked to failure!
https://t.co/JUf9qEjl72
#frailty#rehab#exercise#strength