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Children Needed For New Research Study: The SOPHIE Study

By |2024-07-11T12:45:10+01:00July 5th, 2024|

The SOPHIE Study is a research study at University College Cork and Cork University Maternity Hospital/Cork University Hospital. Researchers at INFANT, UCC are looking for healthy children aged 5-11 years old to take part in this study. What is the Study?  ‘SOPHIE’ is an acronym for ‘School-aged Outcomes Post Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy’. Some children are [...]

BASELINE Birth Cohort study

By |2023-06-29T14:51:40+01:00May 11th, 2023|

The BASELINE Birth Cohort study is Ireland’s opportunity to establish a longitudinal birth cohort with the potential to answer important questions in the study of diseases in early life, later childhood and beyond. It has the potential to identify risk factors for common disorders such as diabetes, eczema, and asthma. This study has the potential [...]

Results of PARROT Ireland Trial Published in British Medical Journal

By |2021-08-14T09:50:51+01:00August 13th, 2021|

Results of PARROT Ireland Trial Published in British Medical Journal Research funded by the Health Research Board Mother and Baby Clinical Trial Network Collaborative Ireland and published by Professor Keelin O’Donoghue in the British Medical Journal, has found that using the Placental Growth Factor test in clinical practice does not improve [...]