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  • Connecting Health Research and the General Public

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  • Striding Ahead in Stroke Research

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  • Making Mobility Smarter

    Over the past year, a small team of engineers at the department of Systems and Control Engineering (SCE) of the…

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  • The Future of Hip Replacement, One Step at a Time

    A project seeking to design and develop a new prosthetic hip joint is currently underway at the University of Malta.…

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  • Merging Past and Future

      It was just over a year ago that two University of Malta departments and an institute started working on…

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  • The Mobile Dental Unit: Three Years and Counting

      Now in its third year of operation, the Mobile Dental Unit continues to improve the oral health of the…

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  • Freedom is on the Horizon

    A new piece of simple technology armed with a complex algorithm could give dementia patients freedom to wander unattended while…

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  • €500,000 for cancer research in 5 years

    The ALIVE Charity Foundation, has been instrumental in raising a total of half a million euros for cancer research over…

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  • How Prevention is Saving Lives

    With BEAT-IT, DR MARK ABELA is helping to determine heart problems before complications develop. Here he explains how and why.…

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  • Differentiation Therapy – changing the way we treat cancer

    Through funds channelled to RIDT by the Alive Charity Foundation, GIULIA VASSALLO EMINYAN is currently researching differentiation therapy – a…

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  • Marijuana & Managing Epilepsy

    Marijuana has been used by humans for over 5,000 years for religious, spiritual, recreational and medicinal reasons. Even so, the…

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  • Clearing a Pathway for Chemotherapy

    A new discovery could lead to chemotherapy becoming more potent by over 50 times in three different cancers – or…

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  • Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Gaming and Beyond

    In the future, games will be able to understand the player and make decisions; yet the technology could revolutionise many…

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  • No Kidding With the Kidneys

    Although the kidneys are vital organs, we often overlook their crucial role in our overall health. Here, Dr Valerie Said…

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  • The Quest to Quantify Diabetes

    What is the link between the Maltese lifestyle and diabetes type 2? And how will figuring this out help health…

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  • De Soldanis Goes Mass Market

    Written 248 years ago, De Soldanis’s Manuscript is not just a Maltese-to-Latin-to-Italian dictionary, but the immortalisation of the world in…

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  • The Mobile Dental Unit – On the Road to Better Oral Health

    The RIDT-funded Mobile Dental Unit is now on the road. But what does it do? And why is it important…

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  • A Gift That Keeps on Giving

    From an early age we are taught that charity should be selfless, but what’s wrong with donating money towards something…

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  • At the Races: UoMRacing

    With a fraction of their international competitors’ budgets, the University of Malta Racing team has proven that dedication and perseverance…

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  • The Biobank – One of Malta’s Best Kept Secrets

    Since 1989, every child born in Malta has been tested for hereditary haemoglobin disorders in a project conducted jointly by…

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  • Differentiation Therapy: A Cure For Childhood Cancer?

    How can differentiating cancerous cells help researchers come up with a better cure for certain cancers? To find out, we…

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  • The Mobile Dental Clinic – Behind the Scenes

    The University of Malta’s RIDT-funded mobile dental clinic will be hitting the roads in just a few weeks time. To…

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