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• Refugee Week: an opportunity for refugees and asylum seekers with a background in medicine

  Date: 20 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-refugee-week-sanctuary-medicine-programme

  An initiative to provide refugee and asylum seeking doctors and nurses an opportunity to gain a key language qualification is being spearheaded at...

• 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.

• Ground-breaking space technology receives real-life health application

  Date: 28 Apr 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/29-space-technology

  UK Space Agency awards Leicester team £2 million.

• 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.

• New clues about why non-smokers, as well as smokers, develop chronic lung disease revealed

  Date: 25 Feb 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/25-copd

  Researchers reveal findings that explain why some people who have never smoked develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

• Beta-blockers could reduce death among those with diabetes and hypoglycaemia

  Date: 22 Feb 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-beta-blockers-reduce-death-diabetes-hypoglycaemia

  A type of drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could reduce the risk of death among those with type 2 diabetes and a related complication.

• Work of Leicester Real World Evidence Unit highlighted in recent Government policy document

  Date: 31 Jan 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/31-real-world-evidence-unit-nhs

  Leicester Real World Evidence Unit celebrated for cutting-edge work.

• Ramadan course means Muslims with type 2 diabetes can fast safely

  Date: 11 Jan 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/11-ramadan-course-means-muslims-with-type-2-diabetes-can-fast-safely

  Muslims in Leicester with type 2 diabetes who are planning to fast during Ramadan are being given the chance to learn how to do it safely as part...