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Bariatric surgery: new challenges

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
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Mr Bruno Sgromo talks about bariatric surgery (weight loss and metabolic surgery) and the new challenges that it brings to the bariatric team and the patient.
Mr Sgromo is Lead Consultant Bariatric Surgeon at the Oxford Bariatric Unit, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Surgical Grand Rounds Lectures
People
Bruno Sgromo
Keywords
Bariatric surgery
weight loss
obesity
Health
diet
lifestyle
gastric bypass
gastric band
Department: Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:42:35

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Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation

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Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation
The Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015, #HIP2015, was hosted by the Humanitarian Innovation Project, in partnership with the World Humanitarian Summit, in Oxford on 17 and 18 July 2015. The theme of the conference was ‘facilitating innovation’. As interest and dialogue around humanitarian innovation continues to expand, conference participants were invited to explore the challenges of creating an enabling environment for humanitarian innovation. In the lead up to the World Humanitarian Summit 2016, a key focus of the conference explored how we enable innovation by and for affected communities. What does it mean to take a human-centred approach seriously, and to engage in co-creation with affected populations? It also sought to examine what facilitation means across the wider humanitarian ecosystem, and how we can better convene the collective talents of people within and across traditional and non-traditional humanitarian actors.

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Why we work on Alzheimer’s disease

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Translational Medicine
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Housed within the Target Discovery Institute, the Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ODDI) juxtaposes drug discovery expertise alongside scientific and academic understanding of patients, disease mechanisms and model systems.
The burden caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias represents one of the biggest problems for our healthcare systems. The last medicine was approved in 2002 and today we only have symptomatic treatments. ARUK-ODDI brings together chemists, biologist, psychiatrists and neuroscientists, many of them with pharmaceutical background, aiming to accelerate the discovery of novel and effective treatments.

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Translational Medicine
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John Davis
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease
drug discovery
disease mechanisms
Dementia
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:06:30

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Gastrointestinal cancers

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Translational Medicine
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Dr Claire Palles studies whole genome sequencing data and targeted analyses with the aim of discovering genetic variants that affect susceptibility to colorectal cancer and Barrett’s oesophagus.
The gastrointestinal track is responsible for more cancers than any other system. A condition called Barrett's oesophagus, characterised by a change in the cells lining the oesophagus, can lead to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Only few people with Barrett's oesophagus will go on to develop cancer, and genome sequencing studies aim to identify genetic risk factors and therefore better target high-risk patients.
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Translational Medicine
People
Claire Palles
Keywords
cancer
gastrointestinal
genome sequencing
colorectal
barrett's oesophagus
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:04:32

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Poor quality medicines

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Translational Medicine
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LOMWRU researchers conduct clinical research to help improve global, regional and Lao public health. They focus on infectious diseases, and also investigate diseases of nutrition and poverty.
Poor quality medicines are a serious threat to our health. Falsified medicines and substandards medicines are a problem for all countries, but particularly for low and middle income countries where we see, for example, a large epidemic of fake anti-malarial drugs. Globally, better medicine regulatory authorities will help improve the quality of our medicines.
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Translational Medicine
People
Paul Newton
Keywords
Loas
Medicine
public health
infectious disease
fake drugs
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:03:58

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Why we work on Alzheimer’s disease

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Translational and Clinical
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Housed within the Target Discovery Institute, the Alzheimer’s Research UK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute (ODDI) juxtaposes drug discovery expertise alongside scientific and academic understanding of patients, disease mechanisms and model systems.
The burden caused by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias represents one of the biggest problems for our healthcare systems. The last medicine was approved in 2002 and today we only have symptomatic treatments. ARUK-ODDI brings together chemists, biologist, psychiatrists and neuroscientists, many of them with pharmaceutical background, aiming to accelerate the discovery of novel and effective treatments.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Translational and Clinical
People
John Davis
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease
drug discovery
disease mechanisms
Dementia
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:06:30

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Astronomy at the Highest Energies: Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Physics Colloquium 25 November 2016 delivered by Dr Jamie Holder

The gamma-ray band of the electromagnetic spectrum probes some of the most extreme environments in the Universe. Photons of these very-high energies can only be produced by the interactions of subatomic particles that have been accelerated to almost the speed of light. This acceleration occurs in a surprisingly wide variety of astrophysical sources: close to black holes and neutron stars, in the blast waves of supernova explosions, and in the relativistic jets of active galaxies. Gamma-ray emission might also result from the interactions of dark matter particles, and so provide a non-gravitational method to detect dark matter in the Universe and to determine its nature. Dr Holder will describe the detection methods for gamma-ray astronomy and highlight some of the most exciting results from the VERITAS observatory, which has been studying astrophysical sources from a mountain in Arizona since 2007. He will also describe the status and prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array, a next-generation gamma-ray observatory on a much larger scale.

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Oxford Physics Public Lectures
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Jamie Holder
Keywords
astro physics
gamma ray
photons
subatomic particles
speed of light
black holes
neutron stars
supernova
dark matter
universe
VERITAS observatory
cherenkov telescope Array
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 30/11/2016
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Gastrointestinal cancers

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Genetics
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Dr Claire Palles studies whole genome sequencing data and targeted analyses with the aim of discovering genetic variants that affect susceptibility to colorectal cancer and Barrett’s oesophagus.
The gastrointestinal track is responsible for more cancers than any other system. A condition called Barrett's oesophagus, characterised by a change in the cells lining the oesophagus, can lead to oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Only few people with Barrett's oesophagus will go on to develop cancer, and genome sequencing studies aim to identify genetic risk factors and therefore better target high-risk patients.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Genetics
People
Claire Palles
Keywords
cancer
gastrointestinal
genome sequencing
colorectal
barrett's oesophagus
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:04:32

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Poor quality medicines

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Global Health
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LOMWRU researchers conduct clinical research to help improve global, regional and Lao public health. They focus on infectious diseases, and also investigate diseases of nutrition and poverty.
Poor quality medicines are a serious threat to our health. Falsified medicines and substandards medicines are a problem for all countries, but particularly for low and middle income countries where we see, for example, a large epidemic of fake anti-malarial drugs. Globally, better medicine regulatory authorities will help improve the quality of our medicines.
Creative Commons Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Global Health
People
Paul Newton
Keywords
Loas
Medicine
public health
infectious disease
fake drugs
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:03:58

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North–South migration and postcolonial encounters: Portuguese labour migrants in Angola

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International Migration Institute
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Lisa Åkesson unsettles the image of migrants’ border crossing as solely taking place in South–North direction by looking at the contemporary postcolonial Portuguese labour migration to Angola
Global discourses as well as migration regimes often build on and reinforce the image of migrants’ border crossing as solely taking place in South–North direction. This paper unsettles this idea by looking at the contemporary postcolonial Portuguese labour migration to Angola. In particular it focuses on the Portuguese migrants’ relation to the Angolan party-state, and the ensuing (re-) articulation of Portuguese and Angolan postcolonial identities.

The paper demonstrates that while the most influential Portuguese are closely allied with the Angolan political elite, other Portuguese migrants are in a vulnerable position in relation to the Angolan party-state, and many struggle to secure immigration documents. The vulnerability of the non-elite Portuguese brings about feelings of postcolonial score-setting among some Angolans. These feelings are still a part of the colonial legacy, but they also reflect a new turn in Angolan-Portuguese relations. Thus, in difference to most studies with a postcolonial perspective this paper does not take the continuance of the colonial as a starting point; rather it probes the limit of the colonial.

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International Migration Institute
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Lisa Åkesson
Keywords
postcolonial
portugal
angola
labour migration
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 30/11/2016
Duration: 00:44:21

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