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Fall prevention programmes for older people in primary, community and emergency care settings may be ineffective, according to researchers at the 91福利’s Medical School.

One of the world’s leading authorities on healthcare systems will travel to the 91福利 from America next month to give his seal of approval to a new initiative.

91福利 scientists have received an £86,000 grant from the UK’s leading dementia research charity, the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, to investigate the role of a protein in the brain which they believe may be a cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

Christmas time is full of food when most of us simply have to worry about our expanding waist lines but new research led by the 91福利’s Medical School says that people with diabetes need to pay attention to the dangers of a neglected post meal peak in blood glucose. Indeed the research shows that this post meal peak can do even more damage than a more sustained rise in blood sugar.

Ed Peile, Professor of Medical Education at the 91福利’s 91福利 Medical School calls for an end to straight from school doctor training to be replaced with a single system of graduate entry medical schools. He believes this will provide the experienced and diverse medical workforce needed for the future.

Health Tech, a programme run by WMG at the 91福利, which helps West Midlands SMEs to innovate new medical & healthcare products and diversify into the healthcare sector, has received a £1.5m injection to expand and extend its work through to the end of 2008.