Christina O'Neill
Assistant Producer at STV News (Glasgow and West)
Assistant Producer at @STVNews, erstwhile tabloid pun apologist
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news.stv.tv | Christina O'Neill
Men are less likely than women to seek support after being diagnosed with cancer, a charity has said. And if they do seek help, they are often facing a diagnosis of an incurable cancer, according to Maggie’s. The cancer charity said “too many men are not seeking the support they deserve” as it called on men to reach out for help. Despite men being diagnosed with just over half of cancers in the UK, only 36% of people who seek help at Maggie’s cancer support centres are men, the charity said.
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news.stv.tv | Christina O'Neill
New technology which allows zoo animals and their human visitors to share experiences could have positive benefits for both, researchers say. Last summer, computing science experts from the University of Glasgow teamed up with zookeepers at Blair Drummond Safari Park to test ‘SensorySafari’, a prototype interactive system which enabled red-ruffed lemurs and humans to share linked multisensory experiences.
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news.stv.tv | Christina O'Neill
A grandad who was among the first people to take part in a clinical trial for Huntington’s disease says it is “the best thing he has ever done“. Retired railway signalman Sandy Patience, 65, was among only nine people in Scotland and 801 people globally with the degenerative condition who took part in the two year Roche Generation-HD1 study in 2019.
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1 week ago |
news.stv.tv | Christina O'Neill
Northern Scotland has one of the highest rates of Huntington’s disease in the world, a study has found. The number of people living in the area who have the gene that causes the condition has been accurately counted for the first time in 35 years in research by the University of Aberdeen.
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1 week ago |
news.stv.tv | Christina O'Neill
A Holocaust survivor has said it is “up to us to guard against” a repetition of the Second World War atrocity, 80 years after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Tens of thousands of people, including diarist Anne Frank, died at the camp in northern Germany, which was liberated by the British on April 15 1945.
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