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2016 iCAN Research and Advocacy Summit

The Young Person's Group, part of the Scottish Children's Research Network (ScotCRN), attended the International Children’s Advisory Network Summit in Barcelona helping improve paediatric health, medicine, research and innovation by sharing children’s voices in an impactful way. 

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UK Research Paper of the Year - BMJ Awards 2016

The Bronchiolitis Infant Discharge Study (BIDS) published in the Lancet has won the prestigious UK Clinical Paper of the year at the BMJ 2016 Awards. Bronchiolitis is a common infection in infants and a minority require admission to hospital where oxygen levels are monitored and supplemental oxygen provided to those that fall below an oxygen saturation threshold. The question is where that threshold should lie? Professor Steve Cunningham of the Department of Child...

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Independent Board Member (Industry) for OSCHR

The Department of Health are looking to appoint an Independent Board Member (Industry) for Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) OSCHR’s mission is to facilitate more efficient translation of health research into health and economic benefits in the UK through better coordination and more coherent funding arrangements to support translation. Independent members of the OSCHR Board play a central role in enabling OSCHR to achieve this mission by contrib...

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Scottish cancer patients the focus of Glasgow research conference

Cancer patients in Scotland are set to benefit from closer working between the NHS and the pharmaceutical Industry.   The Scottish Cancer Research Working with Industry Forum – an ongoing collaboration between the pharma industry, NHS Scotland and academics – is holding its second conference in Glasgow today bringing together delegates from NHS, patient representative groups, industry and academia; and demonstrating the strong ethos of collaboration in Scotland....

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