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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...socially defined roles, behaviours and expectations. We are only now starting to understand sex-and-gender-based differences in women with cardiovascular disease, as for many years women were not included in clinical trials. Risk factors for heart disease, as well as the way it manifests itself, can be different between men and women. Risk factors common to both sexes...
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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...social factors. For example, ‘patient activation’ is a term used to describe how involved a person can be in decisions and the extent to which they can self-manage their health. Sharing decision-making between an individual and a professional allows the clinical evidence to be used alongside someone’s lived experience of drug treatment. It is not unusual to see...
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Brexit and health care professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and health care professionals

...work in the UK, (which I will explain further in the next point). Non-EU health care professionals can be examined before they are allowed to work. . Following Brexit it is an option to allow the UK’s health care professional regulatory bodies to set the competence standard for all non-UK trained health care professionals in the UK. Recognition of health care...
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DIY: Make Your Own Soap
Science, Maths & Technology

DIY: Make Your Own Soap

...work area, and keep children and animals well away from your workspace and chemicals. Always work in a well-ventilated area (if possible, outside), and avoid working on your own. Procedure FIRST PUT ON YOUR PROTECTIVE GLOVES, APRON AND SPECTACLES It’s advisable to do this first step outside. Stirring continuously, gradually add the sodium hydroxide carefully to 200cm3...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...workings of the Difference Engine. According to her companions, Ada immediately understood the workings of the machine and its potential. Throughout the 1830s conversed regularly with Babbage and the two became close friends, although there is no evidence they were ever romantically entangled. Certainly, Babbage was entranced with his young protégé. In 1843 he wrote:...
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Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park
Science, Maths & Technology

Tim Peake’s spacewalk is no stroll in the park

...work, and you get a call from home: “You know that fault on the sequential shunt unit? Looks like this Friday would be a good time to get it sorted. It’ll be easy to fix – just one bolt needs to be undone.” If you are handy about the house, undoing a bolt to change a bit of kit is easy and may just take five minutes. Unless the bolt is buried deep within the car...
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Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?
Science, Maths & Technology

Should the NHS have been better prepared for the cyber-highwaymen?

...worked with machines using XP. This is made far more concerning by the official end of Microsoft support for Windows XP in April 2014. While funding to ease the changeover through extended support and eventual move to a more modern operating system was made available, there are still many NHS computers running Windows XP. This is putting the safety and privacy of patients...
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Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...work by looking at their internal functions (operations management, human relations, finance and marketing). You will also learn about the external environment for businesses and how the economic and political context helps shape how businesses respond to global challenges...Introduction to operations management: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs