News
Posted on Thursday 12 April 2018
Third year mental health student nominated for Student Nurse of the Year award
Posted on Friday 6 April 2018
A team led by researchers at the University of York will be testing ways to improve clinical trials in the NHS.
Posted on Monday 19 March 2018
Dr Cathryn Britton, Senior lecturer in Midwifery and Lead Midwife for Education has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travel Fellowship.
Posted on Tuesday 20 February 2018
45 to 65 age group are showing the highest proportion of household spending on cannabis, rather than the younger generation
Posted on Friday 9 February 2018
Professor Steven Ersser, has been recognised for the International Nurse Researchers Hall of Fame Award.
Posted on Thursday 8 February 2018
MidSoc, the University of York’s student midwifery society are delighted to be hosting a conference on Baby Loss and Bereavement Care.
Posted on Monday 5 February 2018
The University of York is deeply saddened to announce that Alan Maynard, Emeritus Professor of Health Economics and Founding Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, has passed away.
Posted on Tuesday 23 January 2018
The gap between the super-rich and the rest of the world widened last year as wealth continued to be owned by a small minority, a report by Oxfam has revealed.
Posted on Thursday 11 January 2018
York researchers convene the UK-India workshop on drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Posted on Monday 18 December 2017
Community screening for osteoporosis could prevent more than a quarter of hip fractures in older women, new research involving the Department of Health Sciences suggests
Posted on Monday 11 December 2017
Freedom Nwokedi was one of two winners of the national 2017 Sue Pembrey Award.
Posted on Monday 11 December 2017
Children in Bangladesh are being exposed to high levels of second-hand smoke despite laws banning smoking in public spaces, a study carried out by the researchers in the Department of Health Sciences
Posted on Thursday 7 December 2017
Senior lecturer within the Department to work alongside colleagues at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust in a new study
Posted on Tuesday 28 November 2017
The University of York is celebrating the 21st anniversary of its ground breaking trials unit, which has helped improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare.
Posted on Monday 27 November 2017
Ian Hamilton, mental health lecturer in the Department, has recently been looking at the issue around women and drugs.
Posted on Thursday 9 November 2017
The latest drug-treatment figures from Public Health England show that the UK’s current approach is failing to reduce drug-related deaths, which are now at an all-time high.
Posted on Wednesday 8 November 2017
Fundraisers from across Yorkshire have presented researchers in the Department with a cheque for £4,812.06 towards a unique research project into blood cancers.
Posted on Tuesday 31 October 2017
A PhD student from the Department has received an award for research as part of his studies
Posted on Tuesday 31 October 2017
Professor Hilary Graham from the Department is one of the expert speakers at the launch of a major report on global progress in addressing health and climate change.
Posted on Wednesday 18 October 2017
Researchers contribute to a new report calling for regulation of cannabis
Posted on Friday 13 October 2017
Staff from the Department of Health Sciences and Chemistry, together with nursing students, are taking part in this year’s Restart a Heart campaign on 16 October.
Posted on Thursday 5 October 2017
A new report warns that drug recovery work in prison is largely futile unless suitable accommodation and support are available to prisoners after release.
Posted on Monday 2 October 2017
Channel 4 news highlights issue with rise in death from drug misuse in women
Posted on Monday 2 October 2017
Department welcomes Professor Dame Elizabeth Anionwu to present public lecture
Posted on Friday 29 September 2017
Don't let my past be your future
Posted on Monday 11 September 2017
Providing frontline police officers with specialist training in mental health issues greatly improves their knowledge, attitude and confidence in responding to such incidents, a trial reveals.
Posted on Friday 25 August 2017
York Trials Unit (YTU) has been successful in its registration as a UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit (CTU).
Posted on Wednesday 9 August 2017
Dying early (under age 75) is 20% more likely in northern compared with southern England, according to research conducted by the Universities of York and Manchester.
Posted on Friday 14 July 2017
Congratulations to all our students who graduated today at a ceremony held in Central Hall, at the University of York.
Posted on Tuesday 4 July 2017
Midwifery student wins Iolanthe student award
Posted on Wednesday 14 June 2017
Researchers from the Department have called for guidelines to be made available to researchers who are considering using social media
Posted on Monday 5 June 2017
Congratulations to former PhD student, Nicole Valtorta, whose paper on the health risks of loneliness was selected as the Best Paper of 2016 by Heart
Posted on Friday 2 June 2017
Researchers from the Department have shown that tobacco use is more common among HIV positive individuals than HIV negative individuals.
Posted on Wednesday 31 May 2017
Dr Noortje Uphoff, Research Fellow within the Department, has been granted a Newton Fund international workshop award.
Posted on Thursday 25 May 2017
Some of the country’s leading experts on mental health and substance abuse will gather at the University of York next month to “end the silence” surrounding women and addiction.
Posted on Wednesday 24 May 2017
Europe may seem like an increasingly divided continent, but there is one thing that unites its people: an obsession with using tobacco to smoke cannabis.
Posted on Friday 19 May 2017
An innovative new part-time course, MSc Advanced Clinical Practice, has been launched for September 2017 entry, which is open to qualified nurses, paramedics, pharmacists and physiotherapists.
Posted on Wednesday 3 May 2017
A new study has shown that approximately 53 per cent of NHS patients displayed clinical symptoms of depression and anxiety within a year after completing psychological treatments.
Posted on Friday 21 April 2017
Scientists have shown that the risk of developing psychosis, such as hallucinations, from cannabis use is small compared to the number of total users.
Posted on Friday 7 April 2017
Researcher from the Department of Health Sciences involved in producing new guidelines to cover condom distribution schemes
Posted on Wednesday 5 April 2017
New partnership between Marie Curie and Motor Neurone Disease Association creates funding for research
Posted on Wednesday 5 April 2017
We are still accepting and reviewing limited applications for exceptional candidates on our learning disability, adult and mental health nursing programmes starting Autumn 2017
Posted on Wednesday 29 March 2017
A therapy which focuses on finding ways to engage in activities that generate positive emotions and combat negative ones could be an effective way of treating young people with depression, researchers from the Department of Health Sciences say.
Posted on Friday 10 March 2017
A memorial is to be unveiled next week in honour of the pioneering York doctor who identified that cholera is a waterborne disease.
Posted on Thursday 2 March 2017
Researchers are calling for ways to make cannabis safer
Posted on Wednesday 1 March 2017
The York Trials Unit will work with the Universities of Dundee and Sheffield on a £2million project to investigate ways of improving the oral health of young people living in deprived areas.
Posted on Thursday 23 February 2017
An innovative psychological treatment can help older people who are suffering from lower-severity depression, say researchers in the Department of Health Sciences. It can also prevent more severe depression from developing.
Posted on Tuesday 7 February 2017
A legally regulated cannabis market would result in more effective strategies aimed at helping drug users to access the right support and guidance, say researchers in the Department of Health Sciences.
Posted on Friday 3 February 2017
Homelessness and child poverty have risen, the NHS is in dire financial straits, understaffed prisons have record suicide rates, the elderly lack social care – yet the rich continue to get richer, and continue to avoid taxes. This is an expression of abject moral bankruptcy.
Posted on Monday 30 January 2017
A new child mental health centre which uses LEGO therapies to help children with autism has been launched by staff from the Department of Health Sciences and the Hull York Medical School.