Articles tagged with 'HEALTH' | University of Manchester

A new study by University of Manchester audiologists has highlighted the difficulties people face with impacted ear wax....

A new study by University of Manchester researchers has revealed the stark impact that high turnover of GPs has on patients’ health outcomes and the service they receive in England....

The search for new cancer treatments in Manchester is to receive a major funding investment of up to £3m, providing future hope for people diagnosed with the disease....

Over the past month or two, many northern hemisphere countries including the US and the UK have seen a large wave of respiratory viral infections. These include RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), flu and COVID in all ages, as well as bacterial infect...

The first ever trial of a revolutionary group approach to anxiety and depression has shown it is no less effective than the one on one sessions thousands of people receive on the NHS every day....

The proportion of children and adolescents prescribed antipsychotics in English general practice doubled from 0.06% to 0.11% between 2000 and 2019, find researchers at The University of Manchester’s Centre for Women’s Mental Health....

A rare variant of a protein present in nearly all human cells may hold the key to improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, according to University of Manchester research funded by Breast Cancer Now.  ...

Over fifty million Indians are affected by serious fungal disease, 10% of which are from potentially dangerous mould infections researchers from India and Manchester have shown....

Long COVID is the patient-preferred term used to describe symptoms lasting more than four weeks after a COVID-19 infection. Children and young people can also suffer from long COVID following even a mild infection with the virus. The latest figures f...

A new Knight and a Dame are among the University of Manchester people recognised in the New Year Honours, the first to be granted by King Charles III....

An interdisciplinary team led by University of Manchester scientists has adapted a technique originally developed to analyse data from stars to devise a way of accurately measuring the human body clock in hospital patients....

2022 was another bumper year for news from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and health. Here are some of our highlights:In January we showed how early data for multivariant COVID-19 vaccine booster shows promise. The first results of an early trial o...

A new study from The University of Manchester has found that veterans are at no greater risk of suicide than the general population....

Racism is the ‘fundamental cause’ of COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among ethnic minority groups, according to a newly published briefing from the Runnymede Trust and The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity....

A team who led the research for a world-first genetic test that could save the hearing of hundreds of babies each year, has won the New Statesman Positive Impact in Healthcare Award 2022....

The University of Manchester has bagged a prestigious openness award for its pioneering work on communicating animal research to the public....

A recent study published in BMJ Global Health has estimated that over one billion people worldwide aged 12-34 years could be at risk of noise-induced hearing loss. The systematic review and meta-analysis found that 24% of young people engage in unsaf...

Cancer Research UK, The University of Manchester and Roche Products Ltd (‘Roche’), today (Wednesday 23rd), announce that they have opened a multi-drug, precision medicine trial for people with rare cancers who need more treatment options....

Hearing loss is a major global issue. Around 5% of the world population, 430 million, have disabling hearing loss. With ageing populations, this burden will only increase.The primary remedy is the simple hearing aid. It is an essential helpmate to en...

This article is part of the Insights Uncharted Brain series. There are many competing theories about what causes Alzheimer’s disease. Here, Ruth Itzhaki reflects on a career dedicated to one of the more controversial lines of research.When I was abou...

Fluoridation of the water supply may confer a modest benefit to the dental health of children, a seven-year-study has concluded....

Sheena Cruickshank, University of ManchesterAs the pandemic continues, many countries are rolling out COVID booster vaccines. In the UK, the autumn booster campaign is offering a fourth dose to those at higher risk from a COVID infection, including p...

Professor Judith Hoyland, Vice-Dean and  Head of  School of Biological Sciences at The University of Manchester has been given a Lifetime Research Achievement Award by the Philadelphia Spine Research Society....

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded researchers at The University of Manchester funding to partner with local communities to tackle health inequalities across the UK.The award comes as part of a new wave of research projects a...

The COVID-19 restrictions preventing dentists in England from providing face-to-face treatment required some to unnecessarily prescribe antibiotics for dental pain, a study by University of Manchester researchers has shown....

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has received a £59.1million award - the largest single research award given by the NIHR to the city region - to translate its scientific discoverie...

A groundbreaking initiative by Manchester and Kenyan researchers to bring world leading oesophageal cancer early detection and research to Kenya has received £2.6 million funding from the Government through the National Institute for Health Research....

Three types of neurostimulation technique could have the potential to help people who have the difficulty in swallowing caused by stroke or other neurological diseases, a review of 174 animal and human studies has shown....

A new study by scientists at PharmaKure -  a UK based pharmaceutical company spun out from The University of Manchester -is to examine blood biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease patients....

A new study by scientists at PharmaKure -  a UK based pharmaceutical company spun out from The University of Manchester -is to examine blood biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease patients....