The thesis investigated infant head control development for a new approach to prevention of deformational plagiocephaly associated with infants sleeping in supine (Back-to-Sleep) and reduced rates of Sudden Infant Death ...

Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) is caused by pathogenic mutations in one of several genes, most commonly ENG, ACVRL1 or SMAD4. Characterised by dysregulated angiogenesis in multiple organs, it typically presents ...

Diabetes affects one quarter of individuals in hospital and contributes to worse clinical and economic outcomes. Acute hyperglycaemia causes immune dysfunction, proinflammatory and prothrombotic changes, and endothelial ...

Advance care planning (ACP) is the process whereby patients are able to communicate with family and healthcare providers regarding future health care choices in the event that they do not have the capacity to do so. In ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, inflammatory and demyelinating autoimmune condition which affects the central nervous system. Multiple sclerosis can present with a wide variety of symptoms and can affect a patient’s ...

Parkinsons Disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by bradykinesia, rigidity, gait impairment and rest tremor. Non-motor features including anosmia, Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, autonomic ...

The average age of onset of multiple myeloma (MM) is in the 7th decade coinciding with the development of immunosenescence. As a consequence, lymphocyte recovery after lymphopenia-inducing anti-MM therapies (most notably ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive deficits compromising patients’ execution of daily activities. The incidence of unprovoked seizures has been reported to be ...

Epilepsy is one of the most common serious neurological disorders in the world, affecting over 70 million people worldwide. It is associated with an increased risk of premature mortality as a direct or indirect consequence ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is now the world’s leading infectious killer with an estimated 10million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2016. A small number of countries bear the majority of the burden of disease, with two-thirds of ...