In celebration of International Clinical Trials Day, staff from Airedale Hospital are giving people the opportunity to find out more about research and take part in a Yorkshire’s largest health study – at a number of events in the community starting on 22 May. International Clinical Trials Day is held on 20 May each year […]

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust’s clinical research and development team have seen a record increase in the number of patients taking part in clinical research over the last year. The Trust took part in 41 studies in 2016/17 with 830 patients taking part, an increase of 64% from the previous year. The 2016/17 league table, published […]

The Yorkshire and Humber region will be playing a key role in the development of personalised medicine through the establishment of a new NHS Genomic Medicine Centre (GMC). NHS England announced today that the region has been given approval to set up the centre as part of the national 100,000 Genome Project. The groundbreaking project […]

Patients from Airedale Hospital are taking in the world’s largest ever clinical trial looking at whether taking aspirin can stop some of the most common cancer coming back. The Add-Aspirin phase III trial, funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health Research, aims to find out if taking aspirin every day for […]

Carole Paley, research manager at Airedale Hospital, has just completed a major study looking at how acupuncture might be used to help relieve bone pain in cancer patients. She has just been awarded her PhD after studying part-time for five years at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her final thesis was research into the use of acupuncture […]

Researchers at Airedale Hospital are joining the national campaign to celebrate the success of clinical research and persuade more patients to get involved. To mark International Clinical Trials Day on Monday 20 May, there will be information stands around the Trust to raise awareness of how to become involved in research and opportunities to speak […]