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Recruitment begins for ethnic minority healthcare staff COVID research study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/recruitment-begins-for-ethnic-minority-healthcare-staff
A drive to encourage ethnic minority healthcare workers to participate in a Government-backed study investigating the risks of COVID-19 to their...
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New trial could transform heart health of dialysis patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/dialysis
A new trial with the potential to transform the heart health of patients with kidney failure has today been launched by the University of...
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COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/covid19-ethnicity
According to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity
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Leicester professor helps combat worldwide diabetes-related chronic kidney disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/diabetes-kidney-disease
A University of Leicester-based Professor has helped draft guidelines that will help improve global outcomes for a diabetes-related complication.
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Professor Mick Peake awarded OBE
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/professor-mick-peake-awarded-obe
Professor Michael (Mick) Peake has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to medicine.
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Heightened COVID-19 risk for BAME healthcare workers to be examined in major UK study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-bame-risk-study
More than £2m of Government funding has been awarded to academics at the University of Leicester to investigate why people from BAME (black, Asian...
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Blood cancer breakthrough offers clues for tailored patient treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/blood-cancer-breakthrough-offers-clues-for-tailored-patient-treatment
Patients with blood cancer could be offered a tailored course of treatment in the future, after Leicester academics successfully trialled the use...
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Signs of early heart failure revealed in patients with type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/heart-failure-diabetes
Adults with type 2 diabetes that have no history, signs or symptoms of heart problems have been shown to have severely limited exercise capacity.
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Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities
New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Leicester championed as UK’s top recruiter to RECOVERY trial
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/recovery-trial
The Leicester COVID-19 research team, made up of researchers and clinicians from the University of Leicester and Leicester’s Hospitals, were...