Articles tagged with 'Health' | University of Manchester

The Nuffield Foundation has awarded £1.5 million in research funding to The University of Manchester as part of a £4 million award to six research teams across five UK Universities to improve the lives of people living with musculoskeletal (MSK) cond...

A University of Manchester psychologist is urging an anxious public to learn from how older people cope with the COVID-19 crisis. ...

The University of Manchester is repurposing specialised equipment across its campus to help produce safety equipment for NHS workers battling COVID-19 in an attempt to help reduce the critical demand across the region. ...

A partnership of Manchester’s NHS and academic organisations will continue accelerating world-leading health research after once again receiving the prestigious Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) designation. ...

A study led by an NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre scientist has identified, for the first time, how the human skin suppresses inflammation after exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR). ...

More than 450 medical and social care students across Manchester have stepped forward in less than a week to support NHS workers while they tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Users of a new health and wellbeing app are contributing to a publicly-available heat map of people with COVID-19 symptoms, providing a national picture of the outbreak and its spread over time. ...

In an unprecedented move, scientists and clinicians across Greater Manchester have formed a rapid response research group to find ways to beat COVID-19 and save lives. ...

Researchers and medical experts from nine world-leading medical imaging centres across the UK come together to form an integrated infrastructure for standardising and validating cancer imaging biomarkers for clinical use. ...

A psychological theory could kickstart improvements in the way robots are able to walk, thanks to a University of Manchester study. ...

Epidemiologists at The University of Manchester have discovered an association between the number of prescriptions for antibiotics and a higher risk of hospital admissions. ...

Two trials of a new drug have shown that at low doses, it can ease the often distressing symptoms of chronic cough with minimal side effects. ...

An analysis of 149 scientific studies has identified 24 genetic variants which predispose women to endometrial cancer. ...

A partnership of Manchester campaigners and researchers are urging health professionals change their attitudes about sexual activity in older people. ...

Biologists have discovered a way to stop cells from one of the most aggressive types of breast cancer spreading in the lab. ...

An international team of scientists has identified a protein which is strongly linked to the commonest cause of blindness in developed countries when its levels are raised in the blood. ...

UK citizens are set to contribute to world-leading research on air quality, plastic pollution, period poverty, farming methods and many other issues that directly affect their lives. ...

Professor Chris Phillipson of the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA) has collaborated on a new book on understanding insecurities in later life. Professor Phillipson, together with Amanda Grenier (University of Toron...

A study by a team of psychologists has revealed that people who self-injure often feel positively- as well as negatively - about their behaviour. ...

A Professor of Infectious Diseases at The University of Manchester has taken part in an event in Cardif to honour his grandmother who was one of the first children in the world to be treated with Insulin. Elizabeth’s grandfather (David Charles Hughes...

New antiviral materials made from sugar have been developed to destroy viruses on contact and may help in the fight against viral outbreaks. ...

A new research project funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) at the University of Manchester aims to find a way to slow down the progression of heart failure. ...

NHS, government, universities and companies must do more to avoid misusing health data and damaging public trust in health research, say experts from the University of Manchester. ...

A new multidisciplinary study involving six universities is to investigate why some patients who have had advanced cancer remain well after treatment. ...

Welcome to the top ten most popular news stories on our website from the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in 2019. A brilliant collection of interesting and important research, we think. Enjoy!   Researchers discover when it’s good...

University of Manchester scientists investigating a possible treatment for foetal growth restriction (FGR), a condition in which babies grow poorly in the womb, have urged further caution on the use of Viagra. ...

UK scientists have identified a new way to kill pancreatic cancer cells by ‘pulling the plug’ on the energy generator that fuels calcium pumps on their cell surface. The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, reports how switching off the...

The University of Manchester has been awarded a major £5million funding boost by The Wolfson Foundation that will help build a new world-class cancer research facility in Manchester. ...

Aaron Amat/Shutterstock By David Ray, University of Oxford and Gareth Kitchen, University of Manchester All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and night. The deta...

Removing the clock gene BMAL1 makes bacteria-engulfing defence cells in the body more effective, a University of Manchester and University of Oxford study published in the journal PNAS has found. ...