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UK-born UK healthcare workers more likely to report multiple long-term health conditions than those born overseas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/health-conditions
UK healthcare workers born in the UK are significantly more likely to report having multiple long-term health conditions than migrant UK healthcare workers, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Leicester
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Pioneering study identifies over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/thyroid
A new study has identified over 100 genes linked to thyroid hormone levels, shedding light on the causes of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism (underactive and overactive thyroid).
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Study should inform future health provision for premature youngsters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/preterm-healthcare-leicester-study
A new study by University of Leicester researchers has found that children born preterm spend an average of two days admitted to hospital between going home from neonatal care and their second birthday
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Groundbreaking new centre will turbocharge research and treatment for patients with artery disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/peripheral-artery-disease-leicester
University of Leicester experts have been awarded nearly £2 million to set up a global vascular research centre
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Findings of global study could aid stroke patient prognosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/stroke-prognosis
Measuring the brain’s ability to control its own blood flow using a bedside test could allow clinicians to give stroke patients and their families a clearer idea of how well they’ll go on to recover.
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Leicester doctor and researcher listed in Forbes ‘30 under 30’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/forbes-30
An infectious diseases doctor at Leicester’s Hospitals has been listed as one of Forbes’ ‘30 under 30’ in Europe in the field of Science and Healthcare.
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Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2
New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...
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Dr Gijs Rommelse
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/people/dr-gijs-rommelse
Dr Gijs Rommelse is Head of History at the Haarlemmermeer Lyceum in Hoofddorp (the Netherlands). He specialises in seventeenth and eighteenth century political and military cultures.
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UKs largest ever investment into groundbreaking health research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/uk2019s-largest-ever-investment-into-ground-breaking-health-research
Leicester’s hospitals and the Universities of Leicester and Loughborough are set to receive funding of £11m from the Government to make world-leading medical breakthroughs, as part of a record package of research funding announced today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Welcome aboard the future of the UK space industry!
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/space-industry
The University of Leicester is supporting the future of the UK’s space industry after helping to develop the standard for a new Space Engineering Technician apprenticeship – the very first of its kind to receive Government approval.