Charity/disease awareness Archives - Page 13 of 14

22 September 2017

The Porterhouse team made us proud by wearing jeans to change lives and baking a variety of blue cakes and cookies for Jeans for Genes Day last Friday. Thank you to Alice for organising the day and to all those who got involved!

13 September 2017

Lymphatic Cancer Awareness Week

Every 28 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with lymphoma. Lymphoma is a form of blood cancer that occurs when certain cells in the blood, known as lymphocytes, divide and grow in an out-of-control manner and cease to function effectively. As a result, the body is unable to fight off infection or other forms of cancer.

19 June 2017

Porterhouse competes in the SportsAble static wheelchair challenge #PUSHyourself

Last week the mighty Porterhouse Power Athletes took on the new challenge of static wheelchair racing to fundraise for our local charity partners, SportsAble.

17 May 2017

A not-so-blue Monday: Porterhouse Medical supports MPS Awareness Day

At Porterhouse Medical, we are passionate about the work we do with our partners to help improve people’s lives; which includes using our medical and scientific communications expertise to help raise awareness of disease symptoms and encourage support for relevant charities.

11 April 2017

Promising news for PD patients announced in the run-up to World Parkinson’s Day

Promising news for patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) was reported at the 13th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases in Vienna earlier this month. PRX002/RG7935, currently in Phase 1b clinical trials, has been identified as having an acceptable safety profile and is expected to go into phase 2 clinical trials in the next few months.

5 April 2017

#WorldHealthDay: ‘Depression: Let’s talk’ – raising awareness in the workplace

Porterhouse Medical prides itself on being a company that works together as a family, with humour and happiness instilled in all that we do.

15 February 2017

Five things you should know about rare diseases

To help raise awareness and mark the 10th Annual Rare Disease Day, here we describe five interesting facts about rare diseases.

4 February 2017

Our changing perception of things that cause cancer

Here, we look at the past to reveal some surprising perceptions about risk factors that are now widely known to be associated with cancer. We also consider how our awareness of risk factors has moved on, so much so that we may have gone too far in the opposite direction…

3 February 2017

What is ONCOR?

In order to leverage the wealth of experience that Porterhouse Medical has gathered over the many years of working in a huge range of oncology disease and therapy areas, we have created a new internal department, known as ‘ONCOR’, to focus predominantly on oncology.

28 January 2017

SportsAble

As part of our mission to help improve people’s lives, Porterhouse adopts a local charity to fundraise for each year. For 2017, we are very happy to announce that the charity we will be supporting is SportsAble.

17 November 2016

To mark World Pancreatic Cancer Day, we’re making purple reign in the Porterhouse office!

At Porterhouse Medical, we are passionate about the work we do with our partners to help improve people’s lives; which includes using our communications expertise to help raise awareness of disease symptoms and regular donations to charity.

26 October 2016

How Porterhouse Medical raised £1,924 for Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice

At Porterhouse Medical, we are passionate about the work we do to help improve people’s lives. We are also passionate about doing our bit for charity, so in early 2016 we launched a special fundraising initiative: to adopt a local charity for which we will fundraise throughout the year. This year, we are proud to be supporting the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service.

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