Feeding children peanut regularly from infancy to age five reduced the rate of peanut allergy in 13-year-olds by 71%.

Prof Gideon Lack from King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine explains how introducing peanut products to infants' diet early protects against allergy.

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📢Global Health Fellowship deadline extended📢
There are still some places for NHS Medics, Nurses & Midwives to support a hospital workforce & education development programme across 6 districts in Sierra Leone. Duration: 1 year, starting June 2024
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Congratulations Dr Zhang ! Soo well deserved ! tracycheung 🙌🙌🙌many thanks to the examiners Maria Oruna Gema Pereira and safe travels ! School of Life Course & Population Sciences

Congratulations to Professor Prof Jane Sandall CBE who has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences! 👏

LGBTQ+ and Health in Research is an internal event open to student and staff at King's which will focus on research, networking and multidisciplinary approach to LGBTQ+ and health topics in research

📅 Thursday 23 May 2024
📍 Guy’s Campus
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Very insightful Professional Panel for Early career researchers going on at the moment ! Thanks to the Panel and the audience and special to our ECR representatives for organising this Julia Haarhuis Najiah_Zaidani Federico Bernuzzi, PhD

Operations Assistant (maternity cover)
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How can we facilitate evidence-based practice in nutrition?

Kevin Whelan discusses evidence-based practice is based on:
- best available research
- professional experience
- individual's preferences & values

How to do it?
1⃣Ask
2⃣Acquire
3⃣Appraise
4⃣Apply
5⃣Assess
..evidence.

Integrated care for children with chronic conditions improves care quality and may be cost-effective in the long term

The study by Marina Soley-Bori and colleagues is an important step towards evidence on the cost effectiveness of integrated care

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Personalised nutrition is more effective than general diet advice

Researchers from School of Life Course & Population Sciences found personalised nutrition approaches can improve several key health metrics including lower cholesterol, improved gut health and better metabolic health

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📣 ‼️ #PhD opportunity for obstetric #sonographers ‼️ 📣

Super excited to share rare opportunity for sonos to get first class research training with a scanning component - see Ad ➡️ kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f… SCoR Members BMUS (Ultrasound) Royal College of Midwives 💙 Guy's and St Thomas' Research School of Life Course & Population Sciences

'It's ok to talk about these things.'

Dr Abigail Easter speaks to BBC Woman's Hour about what healthcare professionals, family and friends can do to support pregnant women and new mothers at risk of suicide. ⬇️

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King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Last week we hosted Ministry Of Health Development Somaliland (MoHD) at our offices King's College London. Our #healthpartnership with Somaliland goes back 20+ years. It was an honour to welcome the Director General & colleagues to discuss our collaborative research on mental health & work on hospital patient safety.

Free live #nutritionwebinar + discussion at the end - register now!
#Cancer – the impact of diet hosted by Fiona Malcomson, @erinsullivanRD and Prof Bernard Corfe
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📅 30 May 12:30 - 14:00 BST
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Researchers identify gap in European bronchiectasis treatment 🫁

The study, led by Dr Arietta Spinou and involving a team of international experts, is the largest and most detailed description on the use of airway clearance management to date

Read more⬇️

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Research Associate in Data Analytics
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New research! Me, Kayleigh Sheen, & Emma Bailey (MSc Student LJMU Psychology) are running a study on #TraumaticBirth amongst #Women from #EthnicMinority backgrounds. Please do take part and share if you can - Link below:
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Midwife continuity of care model linked to positive experiences

The review found women are more likely to experience a spontaneous vaginal birth and report a positive experience and less likely to experience a caesarean section or instrumental birth

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Women who received midwife continuity of care models less likely to experience a caesarean section, instrumental birth and episiotomy.
Little difference to fetal loss and preterm birth.
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