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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...

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