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Study shows how to better prepare medical students to provide compassionate care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/medical-students-stoneygate-empathy-centre
A new study describes the creation of a curriculum which embeds empathic communication skills throughout undergraduate education for medical students.
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Stories about…Music
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2026/01/20/stories-about-music/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on January 20, 2026 The East Midlands Oral History Archive contains many thousands of recordings, almost all of which take the form of a story, whether as an oral history interview, a radio programme, a speech, or a song...
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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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Andrew Dunn: Page 6
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/6/
Academic Librarian.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/6/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Literary Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/25/1926/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 25, 2019 The Secret Mystery of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Working in the archives, I often roll my eyes at newspaper headlines which report on archive material being ‘newly discovered’, suddenly...
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Study into German prisoners of war in Leicester after Second World War
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/study-into-german-prisoners-of-war-in-leicester-after-second-world-war
Student Sue Bishop from the School of History is keen to hear from people with information about German prisoners of war who were held in Leicestershire camps during and after the Second World War for her third year undergraduate dissertation.
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Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/peatlands-will-store-more-carbon-as-planet-warms-study-suggests
Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests Photograph of a peat field|Leicester scientist part of international study into effects of global warming on peatlands Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon – but the effect will weaken as...
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Study reveals how dietary phosphate can increase heart disease risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/study-reveals-how-dietary-phosphate-can-increase-heart-disease-risk
A new study has found that high phosphate levels can cause a stress signal inside the cells that line blood vessels, leading to the release of microparticles that promote the formation of blood clots. Inorganic phosphate is a nutrient in nearly all diets.
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Andrew Dunn: Page 72
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/72/
Academic Librarian.