SPCR Research Showcase 2018

Wellcome Collection, London 13 November, 2018

Safety of Antidepressants

Children with asthma and neurological conditions to be targeted by flu preventing strategies say researchers

School funded research recently published in Epidemiology and Infection, recommends that strategies for preventing flu and complications arising from flu in the community should be targeted at children with asthma and neurological conditions. The research looked at risk factors for influenza-related complications in children during the 2009/10 pandemic.

Home-based blood pressure monitoring should be commonplace in the NHS

'Kidney age', not kidney disease

There should be a rethink in how doctors talk to some patients with reduced kidney health, replacing the term ‘chronic kidney disease’ (CKD) with different bands of kidney age, according to a group of experts writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Antibiotic resistance in children is high when commonly prescribed antibiotics are used

Research conducted by SPCR fellow Ashley Bryce has found that antibiotic resistance in children’s urinary E. coli is high against many commonly prescribed primary care antibiotics and could render some ineffective as first-line treatments.