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• International studies confirm positive effects of weight loss medicine for people with obesity-related heart failure

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/obesity

  The results of two studies, led by Professor Melanie Davies, Director of the NIHR Leicester BRC and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, using weight loss medication, semaglutide, have now been published

• Medical Physiology BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-physiology-bsc/2026

  The human body is a well-oiled machine. But it’s still susceptible to disease. Why is this? You’ll answer questions like this through studying how the body works at a molecular, cellular and systems level.

• ‘Worms in space’ experiment aims to investigate the biological effects of spaceflight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/worms-space-experiment-biological-effects-spaceflight

  Universities of Leicester and Exeter collaborate on mission to send nematode worms to the International Space Station in a ‘Petri Pod’ designed and built at Space Park Leicester

• Online newspaper archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/online-newspaper-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 A really useful listing from Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) blog which draws together in one place an A-Z listing of links to news resources that can be difficult to...

• MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-9/

  4. MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript. The first folio contains some drawings and what appears to be a talismanic verse seeking protection from harmful forces. This may have been added by the manuscript's owner.

• On multi-sited research and mono-sited (nationalist) memory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/05/26/on-multi-sited-research-and-mono-sited-nationalist-memory/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on May 26, 2015 Addressing convict transportation – the key feature in the Carceral Archipelago project – implies multi-sited research, that is, research in archives located in different places (and countries/continents).

• Breaking down the barriers of art

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/breaking-down-the-barriers-of-art

  Starting on the 21 May 2018, In Another Place is a ground-breaking region-wide collaboration of ten venues - including the Attenborough Arts Centre - with one collective aim: showcasing stunning pieces of art to new audiences.

• Leicester-led review shows around one in three hospital infections involve antimicrobial resistance

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/antimicrobial-resistance-amr-leicester-hospital-infections

  A University of Leicester-led study shows that in hospital settings antimicrobial resistance is common and independently associated with a higher risk of death.

• OECD Gender data enhanced

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/oecd-gender-data-enhanced/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 Last week the OECD introduced the OECD Toolkit for Mainstreaming & Implementing Gender Equality .

• James Fitchett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/jaf30/

  James is Professor of Marketing and Consumption, with interests in consumer culture, marketing theory and marketing systems. He is associate editor of the Journal Marketing Theory.