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Bisphosphonates and Risk of Acute Pseudogout: A Case-Control Study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Muller, S., Paskins, Z., Hider, S., Mallen, C., Roddy, E., & Bucknall, M. (2014, November). Bisphosphonates and Risk of Acute Pseudogout: A Case-Control Study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). Poster presented at 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, usa

Background/Purpose: Acute pseudogout is the most dramatic clinical manifestation of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition (CPPD). CPPD is most commonly sporadic and age-related but can rarely occur secondary to metabolic diseases or a familial tra... Read More about Bisphosphonates and Risk of Acute Pseudogout: A Case-Control Study in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)..

Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria (2014)
Presentation / Conference
(2014, September). Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria. Presented at British Crime Historians Symposium 4, Liverpool

Drunkenness assumed increasing importance as a ‘problem’ in the discourses of the nineteenth century. This is a bottom-up study to examine the extent to which the policing of drunkenness was informed by local cultures, rather than directed by policie... Read More about Policing Drunkenness in Victorian Cumbria.

Fit for purpose? A qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives on pharmaceutical needs assessments. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hamilton, J., Cork, T., Zaman, H., & White, S. (2014, September). Fit for purpose? A qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives on pharmaceutical needs assessments. Poster presented at Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), Annual Conference 2014, ICC Birmingham UK

PNAs were introduced in 2004, revised by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) between 2009 and 2011 and, since April 2013, are in the process of being reviewed again by the new Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) for completion in 2015. A previous questionnaire... Read More about Fit for purpose? A qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives on pharmaceutical needs assessments..

The sensitivity and specificity of pseudomonas aeruginosa detection using hydrogen cyanide concentration in exhaled breath - The SPACE study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Gilchrist, F., Jones, A., Webb, K., Smith, D., & Lenney, W. (2014, September). The sensitivity and specificity of pseudomonas aeruginosa detection using hydrogen cyanide concentration in exhaled breath - The SPACE study. Presented at ERS 22nd Annual Congress 2014, Munich, Germany

Introduction

Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is an in-vitro marker of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA). This is the first in-vivo study to investigate if HCN is an early marker of PA infection in children with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Methods

Children who ha... Read More about The sensitivity and specificity of pseudomonas aeruginosa detection using hydrogen cyanide concentration in exhaled breath - The SPACE study.

Daylight robbery: Hospitals admissions for childhood asthma in English regions are inversely associated with hours of sunshine (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Carroll, W., Saunders, A., Ismail, K., Farrell, W., Emes, R., & Fryer, A. (2014, September). Daylight robbery: Hospitals admissions for childhood asthma in English regions are inversely associated with hours of sunshine. Presented at 22nd Annual Congress, Munich, Germany

Background: Vitamin D is implicated in the expression of childhood asthma but it is difficult to pick apart cause and effect from observational data. If lack of vitamin D is secondary to a sedentary lifestyle then weather patterns should not effect a... Read More about Daylight robbery: Hospitals admissions for childhood asthma in English regions are inversely associated with hours of sunshine.

SAT0503 Eligibility for Urate-Lowering Treatment around the Time of Diagnosis in Gout Patients: A Nationwide Population Study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Kuo, C.-F., Grainge, M., Mallen, C., Zhang, W., & Doherty, M. (2014, June). SAT0503 Eligibility for Urate-Lowering Treatment around the Time of Diagnosis in Gout Patients: A Nationwide Population Study. Presented at EULAR 2014, Paris, France

Background
Current guidelines and recommendations [1-3] recommend urate-lowering treatment (ULT) only for patients with more severe disease or with other concomitant conditions that merit earlier ULT. However, whe... Read More about SAT0503 Eligibility for Urate-Lowering Treatment around the Time of Diagnosis in Gout Patients: A Nationwide Population Study.

Immortalisation with hTERT impacts on sulphated glycosaminoglycan secretion and chondrogenic potential in a variable and cell specific manner (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Dale, T. P., De Castro, A., Parkinson, E. K., Kuiper, N. J., & Forsyth, N. R. (2014, June). Immortalisation with hTERT impacts on sulphated glycosaminoglycan secretion and chondrogenic potential in a variable and cell specific manner. Poster presented at Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society, European Chapter Meeting, Magazzini del Cotone Congress Center, Genova, Italy

Introduction: Limited therapeutic options for the treatment of cartilage damage have driven the development of cell therapy alternatives. How-ever, many of the relevant cell types are difficult to study due to the rapid onset of replicative senescenc... Read More about Immortalisation with hTERT impacts on sulphated glycosaminoglycan secretion and chondrogenic potential in a variable and cell specific manner.

From ‘concert’ to ‘screening’: visual anecdotes in Electroacoustic Music presentations. (2014)
Presentation / Conference
(2014, June). From ‘concert’ to ‘screening’: visual anecdotes in Electroacoustic Music presentations. Presented at Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference, Berlin, Germany

In line with the spectro-morphological tradition of much of the electroacoustic repertoire, video works produced by artists of electroacoustic provenance are predominantly abstract, especially in terms of the featured imagery. Nonetheless, despite th... Read More about From ‘concert’ to ‘screening’: visual anecdotes in Electroacoustic Music presentations..

THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MIDFOOT PAIN AND SYMPTOMATIC MIDFOOT OSTEOARTHRITIS: CROSSSECTIONAL FINDINGS FROM THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT STUDY OF THE FOOT (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, M., Peat, G., Rathod, T., Moore, A., Menz, H. B., & Roddy, E. (2014, April). THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MIDFOOT PAIN AND SYMPTOMATIC MIDFOOT OSTEOARTHRITIS: CROSSSECTIONAL FINDINGS FROM THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT STUDY OF THE FOOT. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the British-Society-for-Rheumatology and British-Health-Professionals-in-Rheumatology

Similarities and differences between the perspectives of healthy living champions and pharmacists on the healthy living pharmacy initiative: a qualitative study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
White, S., Brooks, D., & Hopps, A. (2014, April). Similarities and differences between the perspectives of healthy living champions and pharmacists on the healthy living pharmacy initiative: a qualitative study. Presented at Health Services Research & Pharmacy Practice Conference, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

The Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) initiative has improved public access to health and wellbeing services and increased the quality of services in community pharmacy.1 This appears to be at least partly due to the quality and performance criteria for... Read More about Similarities and differences between the perspectives of healthy living champions and pharmacists on the healthy living pharmacy initiative: a qualitative study.