The benefits of attending a conference during your DPhil

Being a DPhil student can get lonely – especially as the topic of your research becomes increasingly narrow and specific and you end up struggling to find anyone else working in the same field. All the more important it becomes, therefore, to attend and participate in conferences in your area of research. It’s not just …

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Fresh fruit consumption & early markers of carotid atherosclerosis

According to the 2015 Report on Cardiovascular Disease in China, there are approximately 230 million Chinese with CVD and 3.5 million annual cardiovascular deaths [1]. The general perception that non-communicable diseases are exclusively western diseases or diseases of the wealthy is no longer accurate as low and middle-income countries, such as China, account for approximately …