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King's part of €15million project to improve diagnosis of rare diseases

Description: Researchers from King's are working on a unique consortium project on rare diseases, which has been awarded a major European grant of €15 million. The project aims to work with families affected by rare genetic conditions, to co-design the large-scale sharing of genome sequencing results across Europe.
Date:: Tuesday 16th January 2018

Description: Researchers from King's College London have, for the first time, shown that a brief self-help therapy for women to manage menopausal symptoms had a significant positive impact on their working lives.
Date:: Monday 15th January 2018

Description: From September 2018 King's College London's Widening Participation Department will be working in partnership with the Amos Bursary to offer two scholarships for undergraduate study at the university.
Date:: Monday 15th January 2018

Description: A paper written by Dr Yansha Deng, a Lecturer in the Department of Informatics, King's College London, has won the best paper award at the IEEE Globecom 2017 conference in Singapore in December.
Date:: Monday 15th January 2018

Description: A new website has been launched for the CMCI-led research project into "Children's Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue". Headed by Professor Jeanette Steemers, the project investigates ways in which European broadcasters, policy-makers, producers and children's advocacy organisations can better understand the information and entertainment needs of young Arabic-speaking children who have fled to Europe. In this project, Professor Steemers is assisted by Professor Naomi Sakr of the University of Westminster and Dr Christine Singer of CMCI. The project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the project website is at: https://euroarabchildrensmedia.org/
Date:: Monday 15th January 2018

Description: Satisfaction with care in hospitals declines when patients believe there are not enough nurses on wards, according to a new study based on the NHS Inpatient Survey published in the BMJ Open.
Date:: Friday 12th January 2018

Description: Students studying the Postgraduate Diploma Nursing have the opportunity to do a practice placement abroad or elsewhere in the UK as part of their course. In this video, our students and staff talk about their experience and the benefits their education.
Date:: Friday 12th January 2018

Description: Satisfaction with care in hospitals declines when patients believe there are not enough nurses on wards, according to a new study based on the NHS Inpatient Survey published in the BMJ Open.
Date:: Friday 12th January 2018

Description: A new King's College London study, published today in Psychological Medicine, shows that adults who were born prematurely have higher rates of psychiatric symptoms compared to people born full term.
Date:: Friday 12th January 2018

Description: Scientists from King's College London have discovered that three genes (FoxO1, A2M and TGF-β1) increase risk for developing depression later in life, when individuals have been exposed to early life trauma.
Date:: Thursday 11th January 2018

Description: Researchers and engineers at King's Centre for Telecommunications Research in the Department of Informatics have enabled the first successful UK test of standalone pre-standard 5G in central London.
Date:: Thursday 11th January 2018

Description: Patricia Grocott, Professor of Nursing Technology Innovation, has been granted funding, to design protective headwear for people with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) – an intolerance to UV radiation. The funding is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Invention for Innovation Product Development Award.
Date:: Wednesday 10th January 2018