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• COVID-19: New focus on indoor ventilation needed

  Date: 15/04/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/covid-19-airborne-transmission

  A group of leading virologists have expressed the need for improved indoor ventilation to combat airborne transmission of COVID-19.

• Cycling study transforms heart health of dialysis patients

  Date: 08/04/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/cycle-hd

  Cycling at moderate intensity during dialysis could drastically improve the heart health of patients with kidney failure and result in significant...

• Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 ethnic disparities, claims new analysis

  Date: 01/04/2021 23:01:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/deprivation-driving-covid-19-ethnic-disparities

  Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 disparities among minority ethnic groups and could be considered the main cause of disproportionate infection...

• Vegan diet could control blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes

  Date: 30/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/vegan-diet

  A study supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and NIHR Applied Research...

• AI used in battle against asbestos-linked cancer

  Date: 26/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/mesothelioma

  International genomics research led by the University of Leicester has used artificial intelligence (AI) to study an aggressive form of cancer,...

• Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19

  Date: 16/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid

  Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus,...

• Skin swabs could detect COVID-19

  Date: 16/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/skin-swabs

  COVID-19 could be detected through non-invasive skin swab samples, new research published by the Universities of Leicester, Surrey and Manchester...

• Virtual clinical trials could revolutionise the way new drugs are developed

  Date: 05/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/in-silico-lung

  New cutting-edge research undertaken at the University of Leicester could revolutionise the way new drugs are developed and the way patients are...

• Research identifies impact of teenage screen use

  Date: 05/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/screen-use

  Two thirds of children use more than one screen at the same time after school, in the evenings and at weekends as part of increasingly sedentary...

• Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

  Date: 03/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

  Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average...