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One in four of London’s green spaces breaches air quality safety limits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/10-london-no2-levels
More than one quarter of London’s parks, playground, and open spaces exceed international safety limits for air quality, potentially putting thousands of children and vulnerable Londoners at risk.
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Three-fold rise in extremely premature babies given respiratory life support in England and Wales after guidelines change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/premature-babies
The number of very premature babies (22 weeks) given respiratory life support (survival focused care) and/or admitted to neonatal units in England and Wales has increased 3-fold, following changes in 2019 to national guidance.
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The closed prison and the memory of anywhere-but-here
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/21/the-closed-prison-and-the-memory-of-everywhere-but-here/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 21, 2016 The prison of the wolvenplein (Wolves Square), located in the city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands), closed down in June 2014 as part of the budget cuts that have also affected the prison administration.
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Research reveals solar storms trigger Jupiters Northern Lights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/research-reveals-solar-storms-trigger-jupiter2019s-2018northern-lights2019
Solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than Earth’s aurora borealis, finds new research, involving the University of Leicester, using NASA’s...
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Good cholesterol doesnt always lower heart attack risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/2018good2019-cholesterol-doesn2019t-always-lower-heart-attack-risk
Some people with high levels of ‘good’ high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are at increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), contrary to earlier evidence that people with more HDL-C are usually at lower heart disease risk.
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Charity Status
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/charity-status
See the details of our status as an exempt charity within the meaning of Schedule 2 of the Charities Act 1993.
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AccessLeicester
https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/post-16/progression-programmes/access-leicester
Information for post-16 years on our Access Leicester progression programme at University of Leicester.
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Adding genetic information to health checks improves identification of people at risk of heart attacks and strokes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/samani
University of Leicester researchers have discovered a better way of identifying those at high risk of potential heart attacks and strokes and other major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events
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2022 statistics
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/legislative-responsibilities/species-statistics/2022
The Division of Biomedical Services are committed to being open about animals used in research. The data below shows the number of animals used for scientific procedures in 2022.
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2021 statistics
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/legislative-responsibilities/species-statistics/2021
The Division of Biomedical Services are committed to being open about animals used in research. The data below shows the amount of animals used for scientific procedures in 2021.