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Published by Didcot Town Council, 2020-09-24 11:04:59

NHS Photo Exhibition: BIKE

NHS Photo Exhibition: BIKE

ISSUE #1

DTC ONLINE

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION ON NHS

RESEARCH COMES TO DIDCOT

Friday 25th September 2020

Didcot Mayor Eleanor Hards Research studies are an Didcot residents are
at the opening of the integral part of improving welcome to go to Didcot
photography exhibition. treatments in the NHS, Civic Hall and view the
public health, and social exhibition but for those
A PHOTOGRAPHY She said: “I’m delighted care for conditions such that cannot see it in
exhibition showcasing to open this exhibition as cancer, diabetes, and person we will be posting
ground-breaking NHS along with the opening of psychosis. two exhibition pieces per
research taking place the civic hall in these week until the end of
across the Thames Valley difficult times.” More than 2,800 October.
has opened at Didcot participants have already
Civic Hall. The studies highlighted in been involved in COVID- One of the photographs
the exhibition are taking 19 research at Oxford can be seen on the next
‘The Body Unlocked: place in Berkshire, University Hospitals NHS page and the description
How Research is Buckinghamshire, Milton Foundation Trust below.
Changing Lives’ features Keynes, and Oxfordshire including studies into
life-sized photographs of with support from the drug treatment and DNA To learn more about the
people who have taken National Institute for analysis of those with the exhibition visit
part in studies, Health Research (NIHR). infection. Learn more at thebodyunlocked.info.
researchers at work and bepartofresearch.uk.
microscopic images of Images include surgeons
cells and bacteria. preparing a pioneering Bike - Researchers are investigating new
gene therapy injection for ways of treating people with heart and
The exhibition was vision loss, dogs smelling circulation problems by measuring what
opened at the newly urine to detect cancer, a happens to the body when exercising. One
reopened Didcot Civic close-up of cells trial is looking into whether the drug
Hall on Friday 28 August responsible for empagliflozin, used to treat people with
by Mayor of Didcot controlling blood sugar type 2 diabetes, could treat heart failure by
Councillor Eleanor Hards. and a virtual reality improving the function of cells in the heart.
headset to treat mental Some are given the drug and some a
(PICTURED ABOVE) illnesses. placebo ‘dummy’ drug. Their performance
on a range of tests such as heart scans and
questionnaires is then compared. Here,
their breathing, heart rate and blood
pressure are monitored in an exercise bike
test.

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