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Fingerprint breakthrough in breast cancer detection
A team of scientists from Sheffield Hallam University has successfully developed a pioneering non-invasive method for detecting breast cancer from fingerprints, with 98% accuracy

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Sheffield Hallam welcomes first cohort of young people to its health and wellbeing careers programme
Sheffield Hallam University has revealed the first group of 16- to 23-year-olds to join its inaugural health and wellbeing-focused careers programme
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Sheffield Hallam launches UK’s first medical ultrasound degree apprenticeship
Sheffield Hallam University has launched the UK’s first degree apprenticeship route to becoming a medical sonographer
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Sheffield Hallam welcomes Minister as it celebrates 2,500th Degree Apprentice
Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP, Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, visited Sheffield Hallam University to meet with a group of degree apprentices currently undertaking placements with South Yorkshire businesses
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Pioneering fingertip sweat test done from home could replace painful breast cancer tests
Mail Online: A team of scientists from Sheffield Hallam University has successfully developed a pioneering non-invasive method for detecting breast cancer from fingerprints, with 98% accuracy
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Migrant children in the UK are going missing from care – here’s how to protect them
The Conversation: Professor Patricia Hynes has written a piece for The Conversation about separated children who arrive alone in the UK and how to protect them from trafficking
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Degree apprenticeships can’t be allowed to become elitist
A new report published recently by the social mobility charity the Sutton Trust, has claimed that higher-level apprenticeships are being snapped up by the middle classes and have become as sought after as a traditional university degree
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Civic, Accelerated
Universities have never been under more pressure to demonstrate their worth. Not only to their students and funders, but also to their communities in the cities and towns where they are located
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Nursing students deliver community health projects
“How can we use our key assets as a university – students, staff, research – to make the biggest impact in our region?” That question has been especially important to one key civic theme over the last two years: Our health and wellbeing
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