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  At Porterhouse Medical Group, we are very proud of our hard-working teams and are always pleased to recognise career progression within the agency. We are therefore delighted to congratulate Alex Stainer on his promotion to Senior Medical Writer. Alex joined our scientific services team in April 2019 with a BSc in biological sciences and …

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  Porterhouse Medical is delighted to announce that our new Associate Medical Writer, Tom O’Sullivan, passed his PhD viva! Tom carried out his PhD in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester where he looked at the mechanisms behind skeletal muscle wasting in chronic kidney disease patients. Luckily, he managed to finish …

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  As part of our mission to help improve people’s lives, each year Porterhouse Medical Group selects a local charity partner to support by holding fundraising events and using our communications expertise to raise awareness for their cause. For 2020, we have been partnered with First Days Children’s Charity, that works help children whose families …

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  To mark the 3rd anniversary of the launch of Porterhouse Insights, Research Executive, Melissa Goulding reflects on her first year working in healthcare insights and how the irregularity of human behaviour makes for a complex patient journey. Before joining Porterhouse, my experience studying neuroscience depicted the patient journey as a cold, static diagram, painting …

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  Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to welcome Kit Sparrowhawk to our growing global client services team. Kit has joined Porterhouse as an Account Executive and is working in our endocrinology and ophthalmology teams. He is well qualified for his new role, having recently graduated with a BSc in natural sciences from The Open University …

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  Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in China [1], the resulting COVID-19 pandemic has presented a significant challenge to the global scientific community. The urgent need for a vaccine to decrease both the incidence and the impact of the disease remains apparent, with over 56 million cases diagnosed and more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide …

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  Porterhouse Medical Group is delighted to announce that Alex Williamson has been promoted to the role of Senior Medical Writer. Alex joined Porterhouse’s global scientific services team in July 2018 after completing an MSc in molecular and clinical medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Since then, he has become an integral part of the …

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  Wednesday 18 November marked the start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020. The objective of the week is to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance ((AMR) across the globe and to help prevent the further increase and spread of drug-resistant infections. In recognition of this, we take a look at why the often overlooked challenge …

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  Today, 19 November, marks World Pancreatic Cancer Day.   A day when people around the world work together to raise awareness of the symptoms and risks of the disease, and the urgent need for earlier detection. Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer face a dismal prognosis, with the disease having the lowest survival rate of all …

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  At Porterhouse, we are proud to support Transgender Awareness Week, which runs from 13 to 19 November and ends with Transgender Day of Remembrance on 20 November. The aim of Transgender Awareness Week is to raise the visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming people and to educate people on the prejudice, discrimination and violence that these individuals …

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  Ahead of this year’s virtual edition of the 4th World Bronchiectasis & Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) Conference, to be held on 16–19 December 2020, Porterhouse Medical would like to highlight the increasing incidence of bronchiectasis, its economic burden and the urgent need for improved disease management. Disease characteristics and symptoms Bronchiectasis is a chronic respiratory disease characterised by abnormal …

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  Porterhouse is proud to announce that our Medical Advisory Group (MAG) has grown once again, adding further clinical experience to our existing pool of knowledge and real-world insights. We are delighted to welcome our newest member, Jessica Sale, to the MAG. Jess recently joined Porterhouse as an Associate Medical Writer. She has a medical …

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