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    <title>Pelvic floor muscles study could end the embarrassment of female incontinence</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=58086</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Researchers are to investigate the efficiency of the most common NHS treatment for female incontinence – to see how it can better treat the estimated one in three women who live with the condition.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 11:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>New Innovation Centres harness GCU expertise</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=57098</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Glasgow Caledonian University is to play an important role in the foundation of two Innovation Centres which will develop world-leading Scottish technology and life sciences.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship awarded to GCU research fellow</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=54860</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Research fellow Dr Scott Telfer has been awarded a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, through which European researchers can learn and develop their careers by conducting high-level research in other parts of the world.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Bid to create healthier Scotland begins in Govan</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=51105</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Known for shipbuilding, its civic pride and as the home of BBC comedy anti-hero Rab C Nesbitt, Govan will earn another distinction later this month as Govanites gather to help university researchers improve Scotland’s famously poor public health.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Research findings could help thousands of stroke patients</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=41239</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[A researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University has uncovered startling new evidence that may have important implications for the understanding of stroke patients who suffer from left visual neglect, a severe brain condition that causes people to completely ‘forget’ one side of their body and surroundings.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Minimum pricing only one step towards helping the alcohol dependent</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=40822</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Efforts to recover from alcohol dependence (‘alcoholism’) are seriously impeded by the negative social attitudes that surround the condition. Without a radical transformation in attitudes, strategies such as minimum pricing, are likely to fall short in their attempts to control the condition, a leading researcher in the field has warned.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Substance Use & Misuse Seminar Series 2012</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=40277</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Institutes for Applied Health & Society and Social Justice Research are pleased to announce their second jointly hosted interdisciplinary seminar series exploring issues within the broad theme of Substance Use and Misuse.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Fight for Sight Grant Awarded</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=39856</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dr’s Uma Shahani and Anita Simmers have been awarded a Dr Hans and Mrs Gertrude Hirsch Award from Fight for Sight, the UK’s leading vision research charity.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=19944</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Professor Paul Flowers hosts the Scottish IPA interest group which meets monthly to discuss both papers and on-going analytical challenges within the group.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Research Funding Opportunity from Diabetes UK</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=34681</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[An opportunity exists for funding for research training for individuals in the allied health professions (HPC registered), nursing and midwifery, by application to Diabetes UK.  ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>Linda Scobie awarded EU TRIAD FP7 grant</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=34679</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dr Linda Scobie, member of the Institute for Applied Health Research Diabetes Research Group, has been awarded a EU TRIAD FP7 grant.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>Patricia Martin Receives Cunningham Trust Award</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=34678</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dr Patricia Martin, member of the Institute for Applied Health Research Diabetes Research Group, has received an award from the Cunningham Trust.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>European presentation opportunity for IAHR PhD student</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=32133</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Kym Hennessy, an IAHR PhD student, recently presented a paper at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in London.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>Substance Use and Misuse Interdisciplinary Seminar Series</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=31597</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Institutes for Applied Health and Society and Social Justice Research are pleased to announce a jointly hosted interdisciplinary seminar series exploring issues within the broad theme of Substance Use and Misuse.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 15:38:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>Research into 2014 Commonwealth Games</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=27914</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[GCU has joined an innovative partnership that brings together research experts at Glasgow Caledonian, Strathclyde and Glasgow universities to focus on the preparation, staging and legacy of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Exercise After Stroke - Launch of National Clinical Guideline</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=18159</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Launch of standards for the governance, content and delivery of community-based exercise after stroke services in the UK.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 11:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Glasgow Neuroscience Day 2011 </title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=18378</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Glasgow Caledonian University hosted the 2011 Glasgow Neuroscience Day on Wednesday 12th January 2011. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>PhD student commences Gordon Masterton/Magnusson Award funded work</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=15742</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Kellie Gibson has travelled to Bangladesh to start her Gordon Masterton/Magnusson Award funded work. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>Fundraising for Arthritis Research UK</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=15741</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ruth Semple completes the Great Scottish Run to raise funds for Arthritis Research UK.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title>New SBRI competition - Stroke</title>
    <link>http://www.gcu.ac.uk/iahr/iahr/newsevents/news/article.php?id=15739</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[Industry and academia are asked for ideas which will provide innovative approaches to prevention of stroke and rehabilitation of stroke patients. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
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