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• Aspiring medics encouraged to explore a career in psychiatry

  Date: 13 Jul 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/aspiring-medics-encouraged-to-explore-a-career-in-psychiatry

  Young people considering a career in medicine are invited to a conference that will help them on the route to achieving their ambitions and...

• Schools are key to raising aspirations for next generation of doctors

  Date: 28 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/schools-are-key-to-raising-aspirations-for-next-generation-of-doctors

  Teachers and careers advisers are key to improving access to the medical profession for young people in some of the country’s most socially...

• Lecture to explore the emerging blood test helping to spot cancer earlier

  Date: 12 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/lecture-to-explore-the-emerging-blood-test-helping-to-spot-cancer-earlier

  Research into a blood test that may spot cancers sooner and allow more targeted treatment is to be presented by researcher at our University.

• Study uses bacteriophages to treat livestock as an alternative to antibiotics

  Date: 8 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/study-uses-bacteriophages-to-treat-livestock-as-an-alternative-to-antibiotics

  A new study has looked into using bacteriophages as an alternative to antibiotics to treat common infections in livestock.

• Expert opinions cover emergency planning and preventing extremism

  Date: 1 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/expert-opinions-cover-emergency-planning-and-preventing-extremism

  Lucy Easthope, an associate tutor in the Civil Safety and Security Unit within the School of Business, has written an article on the Manchester...

• Latest award for Centre for Medicine recognises efforts to promote positive change

  Date: 26 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/latest-award-for-centre-for-medicine-acknowledges-efforts-to-promote-positive-change

  Our award-winning Centre for Medicine continues to be recognised for its ground breaking design and contribution to promoting sustainability, with...

• Findings could represent breakthrough in how autopsy practice is conducted in UK and worldwide

  Date: 24 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/findings-could-represent-breakthrough-in-how-autopsy-practice-is-conducted-in-uk-and-worldwide

  A ground-breaking study by Leicester pathologists and radiologists could represent a breakthrough in how autopsy practice is conducted in the...

• Leicester spearheads event to encourage more medical students from non-traditional backgrounds

  Date: 22 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-spearheads-event-to-encourage-more-medical-students-from-non-traditional-backgrounds

  The Universities of Leicester and Nottingham are spearheading efforts to boost recruitment into the study of medicine by focusing on locations...

• Researchers identify unique cellsignalling system in some S pneumoniae strains

  Date: 19 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/researchers-identify-unique-cell-signalling-system-in-some-s-pneumoniae-strains

  An article involving Dr Hasan Yesilkaya and Mrs Anfal Shakir Motib, from our Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation working with an...

• University involved in new trial to fight cancer caused by asbestos

  Date: 18 May 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university-involved-in-new-trial-to-fight-cancer-caused-by-asbestos

  Patients with a hard-to-treat type of cancer are being given new hope in a ground-breaking clinical trial.