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America’s complicated relationship with healthcare explored in new book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/transformed-states
The final book in Professor Martin Halliwell's series on healthcare in the United States will be published on 15 November 2024.
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Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalised with COVID are almost three times more likely to die, new study shows.
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/covid-children
Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others.
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New app launched to support estimated 175,000 people in the UK with Lynch Syndrome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/lynch-syndrome
A new app has been launched with the help of the University of Leicester, to help people living with Lynch Syndrome to monitor and manage their...
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Archaeologists identify changes to human bone following introduction of tobacco in Western Europe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/tobacco
University of Leicester researchers hope to better understand how tobacco consumption has historically impacted human health.
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Cutting corners results in rare genetic diseases being undiagnosed, say scientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/genetic-diseases
Inaccurate naming of genetic diseases is resulting in some rare genetic diseases needlessly being undiagnosed, scientists from the University of...
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Scientists investigating the causes of dementia have found key similarities between different diseases, paving the way for effective new diagnostics and treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/alzheimers
Experts looking into conditions including Alzheimers, Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies have found there are similar processes and...
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World-leading empathy healthcare centre set to expand
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/stoneygate-expansion
A Leicester centre which is pioneering medical education that creates compassionate doctors and nurses for the NHS is expanding its team
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Working together to put research at the top of the agenda in the fight against cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/cancer-hope
The University of Leicester is working in partnership with local Leicestershire and Rutland charity, Hope Against Cancer, to advance cancer...
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Last chance for frontline healthcare workers to register for flagship empathy course
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/empathy-course
The Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, based at the University of Leicester, has created the Putting Evidence-Based Empathy into Practice...
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Experts call for greater patient involvement in medical education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/empathy-education
Empathy experts from the University of Leicester say that increased patient involvement is needed to help shape medical education for the benefit...