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Drug-taking at festivals: how to reduce harm and protect health and wellbeing
Festival drug-related deaths are a growing public health concern.
Positive ageing week: TILDA making Ireland the best place in the world to grow old
TILDA is a large-scale, nationally representative, longitudinal study on ageing in Ireland, the overarching aim of which is to make Ireland the best place in the world to grow old. TILDA collects information on all aspects of health, economic and social circumstances from people aged 50 and over in a series of data collection waves once every two years.
Cycle at Work: An intervention to reduce workplace sedentary behaviour among men
You may have heard of ‘Cycle TO Work’ but Trinity School of Medicine researchers are interested in a more original idea, coined ‘Cycle AT Work’.
Type 1 diabetes and exercise: supporting patients in meeting the guidelines for health
Researchers from Tallaght University Hospital studied how well Irish patients with type 1 diabetes comply with physical activity guidelines, and what the barriers to compliance were.
From Trinity to Harvard: Trinity PhD student heads to the US
School of Medicine PhD candidate Maria Davern is heading Stateside to take up a post-doctoral research position at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School with Professor Anthony Letai.
The Irish Childhood Cancer Survivorship Project
To coincide with Child Cancer Awareness Month, we spoke to Dr Michael Capra, Paediatric Oncologists at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin, and Trinity Senior Clinical Lecturer (Paediatrics).