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Nanomedicines for the treatment of coagulation disorders
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2016)Nanomaterials are becoming increasingly utilised in all areas of science, technology and healthcare. More specifically in terms of nanomedicine, the physical and chemical properties of the materials allow for application ... -
Nanotechnology in pulmonary medicine
(2020)Nanotechnology in medicine-nanomedicine-is extensively employed to diagnose, treat, and prevent pulmonary diseases. Over the last few years, this brave new world has made remarkable progress, offering opportunities to ... -
Nanotoxicity in cancer research: technical protocols and tips considerations for the use of 3D tumour spheroids
(InTech, 2018)The poor clinical translation of oncological nanomedicine products is one of the greatest challenges faced by research today. The use of reductionist in vitro models of human cancer and non-predictive animal models is ... -
National incidence study of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in childhood and adolescence in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Medicine. Discipline of Paediatrics, 2001)Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is an important chronic medical condition that is associated with significant morbidity and premature mortality. The disease is considered so important that its incidence is ... -
The National Paedaitric Diabetes Register and its impact on healthcare
(2014)In the field of management it has long been recognised that effective management of any given outcome requires knowledge and control of inputs to the system. This is also true in healthcare particularly in Type 1 diabetes ... -
National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care
(2018)The ‘National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care’ presented here are the result of a collaboration between the British Burn Association (BBA) and the burn care Operational Delivery ... -
A national survey of chronic disease management in Irish general practice
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund ? A success for some patients yet a public policy failure?
(2019)In 2002 the Irish Government announced the establishment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a means of addressing patients’ long wait times for public hospital treatment. A new health strategy published in ... -
A naturalistic longitudinal analysis of post-detoxification outcomes in opioid-dependent patients.
(2018)Introduction and aims: To provide an assessment of outcomes in a cohort of opioid-dependent patients post-detoxification. Design and methods: This study employed an observational longitudinal cohort design. Patients who ... -
Needs of informal caregivers across the caregiving course in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a qualitative analysis
(2018)Objectives: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is a debilitating terminal condition. Informal caregivers are key figures in ALS care provision. The physical, psychological and ... -
Negative perceptions of aging and decline in walking speed: A self-fulfilling prophecy
(2015)Introduction Walking speed is a meaningful marker of physical function in the aging population. While it is a primarily physical measure, experimental studies have shown that merely priming older adults with negative ... -
Neonatal adiposity increases the risk of atopic dermatitis during the first year of life.
(2016)BACKGROUND: Early nutrition and adiposity have been linked to atopic dermatitis (AD) development. OBJECTIVE: We sought to describe risk factors for AD in the first year of life in infants participating in the Cork ... -
The nerve of facial expression, impact of its anatomical variations on iatrogenic surgical injury and a novel MRI diffusion weighted imaging technique to image its intra-parotid course
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2018)This doctorate in clinical medicine set out to assess how variations in facial nerve anatomy to the intra-parotid venous system could impact on surgical access to the parotid gland or the mandible, and explored methods to ... -
A nested case-control study of adjuvant hormonal therapy persistence and compliance, and early breast cancer recurrence in women with stage I-III breast cancer
(2013)Background: Non-persistence and non-compliance are common in women prescribed hormonal therapy for breast cancer, but little is known about their influence on recurrence. Methods: A nested case–control study of ... -
Network Analysis in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis during Voluntary Motor Task: Neurophysiological Biomarkers of Disrupted Cortical Connections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2024)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons primarily affecting the motor system, but individual people with ALS show ... -
Network Analysis in Motor Neuron Diseases: A Cortico-Muscular Coherence Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, 2022)Neurodegenerative conditions are associated with widespread changes in the motor networks. There is preliminary evidence from (f)MRI studies that the structural changes extend beyond the primary motor areas in cortical ...
