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International studies confirm positive effects of weight loss medicine for people with obesity-related heart failure
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/obesity
The results of two studies, led by Professor Melanie Davies, Director of the NIHR Leicester BRC and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, using weight loss medication, semaglutide, have now been published
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Aerospace Engineering BEng
https://le.ac.uk/courses/aerospace-engineering-beng/2026
We’ve come a long way since the Wright Brothers. But in an area as innovative as aerospace engineering, the sky truly is the limit. From flight dynamics to aero-engine design, you’ll learn what it takes to make your mark in this exciting field.
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Blazing Car Murder update
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/blazing-car-murder-update
The search continues to identify a man who died in a burning car almost 85 years ago. In October, we reported that progress had been made in the investigation to try and identify the victim of a car fire in Northamptonshire in 1930.
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Getting Away with Murder in Eighteenth Century England. The Surgeon’s Bain and the Power of the Crim
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/03/14/getting-away-with-murder/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on March 14, 2016 The Murder Act of 1752 could have created a major new supply line for the hard-pressed anatomy teachers of England, Wales and Scotland.
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
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, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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Event to explore how to fight and die like a Greek woman
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/event-to-explore-how-to-fight-and-die-like-a-greek-woman
Ancient Greek depictions of female fighters will be explored at a free public lecture on Tuesday 15 November.
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Graduation Gallery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/graduation-gallery
Congratulations to all of the students who have graduated this week and to the distinguished leaders who received honorary degrees from the University.
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Space scientist to give talk on space exploration as Tim Peake embarks on his first spacewalk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/space-scientist-to-give-talk-on-space-exploration-as-tim-peake-embarks-on-his-first-spacewalk
As British astronaut Tim Peake takes his first steps outside the International Space Station, enthusiasts are invited to watch the historic event and listen to a talk by Professor John Bridges (pictured) from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the...
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Fantastic Beasts and Where I Found Them
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/15-fantastic-beasts-and-where-i-found-them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them An elephant swimming in the water|Join us for the first in a revamped series of Professorial Inaugural Lectures as Professor Richard Thomas discusses his research into human-animal relationships.
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July Book Group: Early Short Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/07/14/earlyshortstories/
Summary of the Waugh Book Group's discussion of the early short stories, July 2014.