Genes identified may help breast cancer diagnosis

Researchers at Keele University have identified two genes which may help improve the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer patients.
The research team, which also included colleagues from Nottingham and Cambridge universities and King’s College London, are identifying and studying genes which control whether a cell lives or dies.
They found that the survival rate for patients [...]

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Keele’s New Doctors Stay In The West Midlands

Almost half of the 88 medical students who graduated this month from Keele University School of Medicine are to stay in the West Midlands.
All the new graduates are starting their medical careers in well-earned first jobs across the country, but 40 of them are staying within the West Midlands Deanery to work in hospitals in [...]

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New Ethics route of the Masters in Medical Science at Keele

The latest update to the Masters in Medical Science programme run by Keele University School of Medicine offers a special focus on ethics, policy and professionalism.  
This Ethics route through Keele’s MMedSci offers three core modules and a wide range of optional modules.  Each module has a credit rating within the national masters framework and the [...]

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Best practice for end-of-life care and support for people with a learning disability

A new guide to support health and social care professionals to provide best practice end-of-life care for people with learning disability is being launched on 28 April 2009.
This free guide, produced by the UK’s leading learning disability charity, Mencap, and Keele University in Staffordshire, is the result of a two year project in Staffordshire funded [...]

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Bone-repairing stem cell jab hope

By Michelle Roberts, BBC
 
Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm.
A team at Keele University is testing injectible stem cells that they say they can control with a magnet.
Once injected these immature cells can be guided to precisely where their [...]

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