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• Hope for first drug treatment for life-threatening aneurysms

  Date: 16 Oct 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/aneurysms-drug-treatment

  Research suggests cholesterol-lowering drugs could be repurposed as treatment in breakthrough for patients

• Donor’s legacy will help train future surgeons

  Date: 22 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/surgical-suite

  The dying wish of a former surgeon is helping medical students at the University of Leicester to follow in his footsteps

• Samworth Foundation provides £1.5m boost for robotic-assisted surgery at Leicester’s hospitals

  Date: 18 Aug 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/samworth

  The number of cancer patients who can benefit from pioneering robot-assisted surgery is set to quadruple thanks to a £1.

• Virtual ward for atrial fibrillation patients could prevent thousands of hospital admissions per year

  Date: 6 Jun 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/atrial

  A new virtual ward to safely treat atrial fibrillation patients could prevent thousands of hospital admissions per year

• Pioneering vascular research receives major boost from the British Heart Foundation

  Date: 30 Mar 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/professor-bown

  The British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £900,000 to a University of Leicester professor to continue his pioneering heart valve research.

• Diabetes patch proposal wins award for University of Leicester PhD student

  Date: 9 Feb 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/young-entrepreneurs-scheme

  Charlotte Fawcett, a PhD student from the University of Leicester Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, led a business proposal that has won an...

• Leicester’s pharmacist prescribing programme is a national first

  Date: 28 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/pharmacy

  Employer demand has led to the University of Leicester launching the UK’s first independent pharmacist prescribing programme.

• New study shows the heart health benefits of more intense physical activity

  Date: 27 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/heart-study

  Study shows there is a greater reduction in cardiovascular disease risk when more of that activity is of at least moderate intensity.

• University of Leicester awarded £10m for research into non-communicable diseases in India and Nepal

  Date: 26 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/india-nepal-nihr

  Funding to help improve the care outcomes of people living with multiple long-term health conditions or multimorbidity in India and Nepal

• Time of day matters for breast cancer treatment: new study

  Date: 18 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/chronoradiotherapy

  Risk of developing breast shrinkage (atrophy) after radiotherapy can be affected by the time of day the patient is treated and their genetics.