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• Clinical trial looks at new ways to treat people living with severe aortic stenosis

  Date: 14 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/15-bhf-clinical-trial

  New research at the University of Leicester, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), could change the way people living with a debilitating...

• Up to 1 in 3 of older people with schizophrenia might have undiagnosed diabetes

  Date: 2 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/03-diabetes-mental-health

  Researchers linked with the University of Leicester have found high rates of diabetes in schizophrenia which is often overlooked.

• Leicester researchers develop novel heart pump to help people with heart failure

  Date: 9 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-novel-new-pump-to-help-people-with-heart-failure

  Dr David Adlam, Associate Professor and Interventional Cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Piyal Samara-Ratna,...

• UK first for Leicester: ground-breaking software lets surgeon see real-time 3D map of heart

  Date: 11 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/12-cardiac-software

  Innovative software that allows a surgeon to view inside a patient’s heart in real time while applying treatment has been used for the first time...

• East Midlands gets £9 million health boost

  Date: 10 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/11-nihr-funding

  An organisation committed to improving the health and wellbeing of the East Midlands by speeding up the adoption of research and innovation into...

• New BHF investment to bolster world-class research at University of Leicester

  Date: 2 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/03-bhf-accelerator-award-heart-circulatory-diseases

  The University of Leicester has received £1 million in funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to strengthen its world-class research into...

• University of Leicester diabetes professors named among nation’s lifesavers

  Date: 15 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/16-nations-lifesavers

  Professor Kamlesh Khunti and Professor Melanie Davies CBE featured in national campaign.

• Up to a third of people with type 2 diabetes not taking prescriptions properly

  Date: 4 Apr 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/05-type-2-diabetes-prescriptions

  Leicester researchers have used a unique screening approach to suggest that nearly a third of people with type 2 diabetes may be putting their...

• Protein levels in urine are reliable measure of effectiveness in kidney disease research says study

  Date: 14 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/14-protein-urine-kidney-disease

  An international consortium of doctors and scientists, including members from Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester, has found...

• University of Leicester receives share of £34m BHF investment to help safeguard UK’s world-class research status

  Date: 5 Mar 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/05-british-heart-foundation-funding-research

  Funding will focus on strengthening research into precision medicine.