Research has shown that patients who have had emergency heart attack treatment with heart artery stenting – and have significant narrowings in their other untreated arteries – can benefit from additional stenting to help prevent future heart attacks. A stent is a tiny mesh tube that is inserted into affected, or clogged, arteries and expands…
Continue reading →New research has found that young, female smokers have a higher risk of a major heart attack The research by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Sheffield is the first to shed light on the risk impact of smoking on heart attacks Despite the increased risk, the study found…
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Cutting-edge lung images will be tested to see if they can help doctors select the best treatment for their patients in a new research project announced on 5 March 2019 by Yorkshire Cancer Research. Researchers, led by Professor Matthew Hatton at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Insigneo Members Professor Jim Wild and Dr Bilal…
Continue reading →Dr Simon Danby, Professor Stephen Matcher and Professor Michael J Cork have been awarded a £420,000 grant from Leo Pharma to undertake the “Skin Pathology assessment with Optical Technologies (SPOT)” clinical study. This fundamental research project is the first in a series of studies investigating new imaging technologies for the non-invasive monitoring of treatment effects….
Continue reading →As a medical physicist, one of my aims is to apply new technology to address medical challenges. During my PhD I explored the use of virtual reality to examine complex data, and soon concluded that this is a potentially influential technology with many applications in medicine. One example is to benefit people with nystagmus. Nystagmus…
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