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• Social stress key to population’s rate of COVID-19 infection, study finds

  Date: 23 Nov 2021

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  Mathematicians have analysed global COVID-19 data to identify two constants which can drastically change a country’s rate of infection.

• New European collaborative platform to combat neurodegenerative diseases

  Date: 2 Nov 2021

  /news/2021/november/epnd

  Members of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) have today (Tuesday) announced that they will embark on a venture to...

• Severe asthma symptoms worsen when treated with psoriasis medicine, study finds

  Date: 28 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/risankizumab

  A medicine licensed to treat psoriasis worsened symptoms in patients with severe asthma, according to trial results published today in the New...

• Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations

  Date: 27 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/psychosis-hallucinations

  Leicester psychologists have, for the first time, created body-maps of the sensations which arise during hallucinations in people experiencing...

• New cell treatment could combat ageing

  Date: 13 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/senescent-cell-clearance

  An international team of researchers have identified a new method for clearing senescent cells, which could transform treatments for ageing and...

• University lights up medical building in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week

  Date: 12 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/baby-loss-awareness

  As part of the national campaign to highlight the importance of Baby Loss Awareness Week, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s George Davies Centre, home...

• New research could help detect early signs of heart failure in diabetic patients

  Date: 6 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/diabetes-heart-failure

  New research in Leicester, which has been funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), could help understand how heart failure can develop in...

• Two thirds of healthcare workers lacked access to appropriate PPE during first lockdown

  Date: 22 Sep 2021

  /news/2021/september/ppe-uk-reach

  A new study has revealed that two thirds (64.

• Government review identifies harmful impact of overprescription

  Date: 22 Sep 2021

  /news/2021/september/overprescription

  A healthcare improvement expert based at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has contributed to a new Government report which suggests many patients are...

• Scientists find clues to tuberculosis progression in gene expression

  Date: 6 Sep 2021

  /news/2021/september/tuberculosis-gene-expression

  Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute working with collaborators at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have identified how gene expression changes...