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Breast cancer treatment could benefit from Artificial Intelligence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/talbot
Artificial Intelligence could identify patients at increased risk of side effects from radiation treatment for breast cancer
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE appointed Chancellor of the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maggie-aderin-pocock
Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, has joined the University of Leicester as its new Chancellor today (1 March).
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Student perspective of racial inclusion in medical school exams: an SSC project
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/medrace/medrace-voices/sethara-alwis-ssc
Student blog describing a research project to understand experiences of student assessment and improve racial inclusion within patient simulators
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Children with multiple long-term conditions hospitalised with COVID are almost three times more likely to die, new study shows.
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/covid-children
Individuals with multiple long-term conditions are two and a half times more likely to die following COVID-19 infection than others.
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New species of Jurassic pterosaur discovered on the Isle of Skye
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/pterosaur-ceoptera
Team including University of Leicester palaeontologist have studied a fossil that suggests the flying reptiles developed earlier and were more numerous than thought
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£8.2M award from ESPRC to transform how technology critical materials are recycled and reused
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/recreate
Professor Andy Abbott of the University of Leicester is part of the team for RECREATE, which aims to develop a circular economy for technology-critical materials
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University of Leicester retains award for commitment to advancing gender equity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/athena-swan
The University of Leicester has been recognised for commitment to advancing gender equity across higher education and research with the successful renewal of an institutional Athena Swan Silver award.
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Generous donation to enhance pioneering kidney research at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/kidney-research
Pioneering research by the University of Leicester into chronic kidney disease has received another major boost thanks to a £1 million donation
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Study aims to tackle overprescribing across England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/medication-review
A £2.4 million study led by the University of Leicester is underway to reduce the amount of unnecessary or inappropriate medications prescribed to older patients
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Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity
A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in White people, latest research published in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates.