The Cambridge Rosie Hospital ‘Neuro-NICU’ has been awarded two grants to help newborn infants and their families from across the East of England suffering from brain injury and seizures after birth. Seizures and epilepsy are the commonest neurological emergency in the newborn period, affecting 1:2000 live births in the UK, and they are associated with […]
Pint of Paediatric Science Evening – 9th February 2021
Please join us on Zoom for our next Pint of Paediatric Science (POPS) meeting on Tuesday 9th February 18:00 – 19:30. We are delighted to host Dr. Tamsin Holland Brown. Topic: 1: The joy and agony of realising patient management needs to change and research is the way forward: “Define success on your own terms, achieve […]
Paediatrics Gone Viral – Understanding COVID-19 in Children
In a previous edition of the Cambridge Independent you may have seen the familiar faces of Dr Louise Allen and Dr Tamsin Brown who featured in an article regarding funds being raised for COVID-19 research and other supported projects. As the article has not been published online, we asked the Team for an update […]
£30,000 Grant awarded to East of England Neonatal Neuroprotection Group
The East of England Neonatal Neuroprotection group, led by Naz Merchant, Florence Walston, Claudia Chetguti and Topun Austin, have been awarded a £30,000 grant from the Health Foundation Q Exchange programme to improve parental communication for babies with neonatal encephalopathy (https://q.health.org.uk/news-story/announcing-the-q-exchange-2020-awards/) The theme of the Q Exchange programme was to ‘Embed positive changes emerging through […]