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• Leicester researchers develop novel heart pump to help people with heart failure

  Date: 9 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-novel-new-pump-to-help-people-with-heart-failure

  Dr David Adlam, Associate Professor and Interventional Cardiologist in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Piyal Samara-Ratna,...

• UK first for Leicester: ground-breaking software lets surgeon see real-time 3D map of heart

  Date: 11 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/12-cardiac-software

  Innovative software that allows a surgeon to view inside a patient’s heart in real time while applying treatment has been used for the first time...

• New BHF investment to bolster world-class research at University of Leicester

  Date: 2 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/03-bhf-accelerator-award-heart-circulatory-diseases

  The University of Leicester has received £1 million in funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to strengthen its world-class research into...

• 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.

• Genetic risk for atypical heart attack in women identified

  Date: 8 Jan 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/08-genetic-risk-for-atypical-heart-attack-in-women-identified

  New research published by teams from Leicester, UK and Paris, France in collaboration with international partners from the US and Australia, has...

• University of Leicester is leading the way in Cardiogenic Shock treatment

  Date: 19 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/19-university-of-leicester-cardiogenic-shock

  Led by the University of Leicester, 12 university hospitals have set up a pan-European recruiting network with 45 cardiovascular centres to test...

• Leicester rehabilitation programmes highlighted by national charity

  Date: 6 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-leicester-rehabilitation-programmes-highlighted-national-charity

  Two initiatives developed at Leicester’s Hospitals have been cited in the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) new five-point plan to achieve the...

• Check urine to ensure patients are taking blood pressure tablets, researchers urge

  Date: 19 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/19-check-urine-patients-blood-pressure-tablets

  Doctors from Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester show simple process may save NHS millions.

• MRI research that gets to the heart of the matter

  Date: 25 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-mri-research-that-gets-to-the-heart-of-the-matter

  Insight into heart disease to be presented at University of Leicester’s Frank May Prize Lecture 2018 on 29 October