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New statistics show number of children admitted into intensive care with COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/picanet
New figures released today by the Universities of Leeds and Leicester reveal the number of children in the UK who were in paediatric intensive care units with COVID-19.
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History of Sex and Crime in Wales
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/history-of-sex-and-crime-in-wales
History of sex and crime in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Wales
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Longer-term organ abnormalities confirmed in some post-hospitalised COVID patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/mri
A study looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that nearly a third of patients displayed abnormalities in multiple organs five months after infection, some of which have been shown through previous work to be evidence of tissue damage.
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Address misinformation and mistrust to help tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers, study suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/uk-reach-vaccine-hesitancy
Addressing misinformation and mistrust, inclusive communication, involving healthcare workers in the vaccine rollout, and promoting vaccination through trusted networks could play an important role in helping to tackle vaccine hesitancy amongst healthcare workers from ethnic...
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...
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New telescope to be the ‘GOTO’ for gravitational wave events
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/goto
GOTO is designed to fill this observational gap by searching for optical signals in the electromagnetic spectrum that might indicate the source of the gravitational waves – quickly locating the source and using that information to direct a fleet of telescopes, satellites and...
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Universal Children’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/universal-childrens-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 Universal Children’s day 20 th November was also universal children’s day.
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A tax on authentic cider? – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/24/a-tax-on-authentic-cider/
A consideration of how new EU proposals to remove tax exemption for small cider producers could impact craft cider producers in Wales.
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Did you know? Food and Brazilian assertions of Africanness – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/05/21/did-you-know-food-and-brazilian-assertions-of-africanness/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 21, 2015 In October 1972, Brazilian foreign minister Gibson Barbosa went on a month-long trip to nine West African countries in order to develop closer economic and political relations with black Africa.
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Introducing Exciting Guest Bloggers. By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/21/introducing-exciting-guest-bloggers-by-emma-battell-lowman/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 21, 2016 Here at the Power of the Criminal Corpse blog, it has been a great year.