The Hospital Research Foundation Group Impact Report - Flipbook - Page 85
LIFE-CHANGING
RESEARCH
YOUR KINDNESS SUPPORTS
more than 60 areas of disease and illness.
Allergies
Pain
• Developing guidelines to help families on food
allergy risks
• Developing a blood test to better identify
neuropathic pain
• Evaluating the critical period for
reprogramming T-cells to prevent allergies
• Improving education and understanding
of endometriosis pain
Eye health
• Investigating whether light treatment improves
sleep and pain
• Trialling the efficacy and safety of
corticosteroids as an added treatment for
orbital cellulitis
Intellectual disabilities
• Improving how people with intellectual
disabilities have needle-based procedures
• Assessing the impact of pain in children with
cerebral palsy
Hip replacements
• Improving the performance and early
surveillance of hip implants
Liver disease
• Investigating new personalised therapies
for liver cirrhosis
Hernias
• Investigating mesh tissue comparisons and
integration to guide hernia surgeries
• Monitoring the lung function in infants
undergoing hernia surgery
Public health
• Investigating the exposures to toxins
in recycled water
• Understanding how climate change can
enhance the transmission of infectious diseases
• Supporting the Healthy Choices Program that
encourages better health behaviours for people
with chronic conditions
Skin conditions
• Comparing the morphological and physiological
profiles in healthy and diseased skin
• Creating a diagnostic tool to identify antigens
causing inflammation in eczema
Sepsis
• Trialling mega-doses of vitamin C as a treatment
for deadly sepsis
• Improving early sepsis awareness in regional areas
Sleep
Motor neurone disease (MND)
• Implementing a sleep health program to address
insomnia and mental health in rural areas
• Investigating how MND develops via the
‘gut-brain axis’
• Improving care for men with depression
and insomnia
• Evaluating a new feeding app for patients
and their families living with MND
Surgery
Pancreatitis
• Optimising the surgery process through
improving non-technical skills, patient
engagement and documentation
• Training and testing to bring a state-of-the-art
Biospherix Chamber online to treat chronic
pancreatitis.
• Investigating whether community-based
prehabilitation is feasible and improves
surgical outcomes
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