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Exercise shown to improve symptoms of patients with chronic kidney disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/exercise-shown-to-improve-symptoms-of-patients-with-chronic-kidney-disease
Just 12 weeks of aerobic and strength-based exercise reduces symptoms and levels of fatigue in patients with chronic kidney disease, Leicester researchers have shown.
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Dora's Story 2: Moving to Postwar Britain
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/learning/doras-story/postwar-britain
Moving to Postwar Britain, offers a way in to Dora's life story through a series of ten extracts from the original interview.
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50th anniversary of special stamps celebrates iconic East of England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/50th-anniversary-of-special-stamps-celebrates-iconic-east-of-england
The East of England’s most iconic people and places will be celebrated in the activities commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Special Stamps programme.
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New hope for gay communities following Typhoon Haiyan
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/new-hope-for-gay-communities-following-typhoon-haiyan
Many LGBT people in Tacloban, Philippines have achieved new-found acceptance in their communities, including a dramatic rise in the number of people using dating applications such as Grindr and Tinder, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, according to research co-led...
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Make yourself at gnome the fashionable hermit in the garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/gnome-man2019s-land-the-fashionable-hermit-in-the-garden
The curious story of garden hermits - from their distant ancestors in imperial Rome to their humble modern counterpart, the dapper garden gnome - will be told at a free public lecture on Thursday 14 May.
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Chemical in red grapes may help prevent bowel cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/chemical-in-red-grapes-may-help-prevent-bowel-cancer
Resveratrol, a chemical found in red grapes, is more effective in smaller doses at preventing bowel cancer in mice than high doses, according to new research published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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Study shows rise in avoidable diabetes hospital visits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/study-shows-rise-in-avoidable-diabetes-hospital-visits
Hospital admissions for a short-term and avoidable complication of diabetes have risen by 39 per cent in the last ten years, a new analysis has concluded.
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Free online course offers insights into the time of Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/free-online-course-offers-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii
As the first anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.
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Expert opinions cover football the Bemba conviction and Obamas visit to Cuba
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-football-the-bemba-conviction-and-obamas-visit-to-cuba
John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written three opinion pieces recently hosted on Think: Leicester.
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Get ready to start enjoying everything the University and the city have to offer by making sure you’ve completed the final formalities.