Articles tagged with 'Medicine' | University of Manchester

Dr Garth Funston and colleagues including professor Emma Crosbie from The University of Manchester have won the 2020 Research Paper of the Year for Clinical Research, awarded by the Royal College of General Practitioners, for their paper on detecting...

Manchester-based researchers estimate that between March and December 2020, 7.4 million fewer NICE recommended health care checks took place in UK general practices in people with type 2 diabetes, when compared to 10-year historical trends. ...

A simple form of talking therapy, delivered by trained support workers over the telephone, reduced loneliness in older people left isolated during the pandemic, the initial results of a new study has revealed.People were contacted weekly and were enc...

Implantable heart technology is being used in Manchester to assess when a patient is at high risk of dying, thanks to University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust-led research . ...

A campaign that urged GPs to ‘think-twice’ before putting a patient on opioid medicines is effective in reducing opioid prescribing in primary care, according to the findings of a major study. ...

UK leading pregnancy charity Tommy’s warns that pandemic pressures can take a physical toll on mums-to-be – even if they don’t personally catch Covid-19, following new research, published in the medical journal Placenta co-authored by University of M...

ShutterstockAndrew Whitehouse, The University of Western Australia; Jonathan Green, University of Manchester, Kristelle Hudry, La Trobe UniversityA therapy for infants showing early signs of autism reduces the chance of the child meeting diagnostic ...

A phase one trial of one of the world’s first multivariant COVID-19 Vaccine has been launched by US pharmaceutical company Gritstone in collaboration with The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. ...

A study of over 1.4 million Danes has revealed a link between higher levels of exposure to two common pollutants during childhood and an increased risk of self-harm in later life. ...

A drug already used to treat high blood pressure could be re-purposed as the first treatment to tackle a type of vascular dementia caused by damaged and ‘leaky’ small blood vessels in the brain, according to research part-funded by the British Heart ...

PIC SNIPE/Shutterstock Sheena Cruickshank, University of ManchesterSeveral countries – including the UK – are now offering third COVID-19 shots amid reports of vaccines proving less effective over time. But do these countries really need to embark o...

An in vitro study of drugs already approved by the regulatory authority in the United States to treat a range of conditions, has shown eight of them are also effective in slowing SARS-CoV-2 replication in infected human cells. ...

More patients who have a type of internal radiotherapy used for reoccurring prostate cancer have side effects compared to two other forms of radiation treatment, a review of 39 academic studies has shown. ...

Unwell COVID-19 patients may be treated just as effectively with oxygen through a mask rather than the sometimes difficult to tolerate therapy known as Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), according to a new study. ...

The drug Viagra, used to treat sexual impotence, can strongly suppress abnormal heart rhythms known as arrythmias in sheep according to University of Manchester scientists. ...

A 70-year-old woman, forced to live with cough since her 40s, is ‘excited’ to be the first person in the world to receive a potential new cough treatment at the NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility (CRF). ...

A new digital platform to support remote monitoring of complex wounds has begun rolling out across Greater Manchester. ...

A paper examining the role of Health Innovation Manchester as an Academic Health Science System has been published in an international journal. ...

University of Manchester researchers have discovered that hearing loss may act as a cause of depression in older people. ...

An early phase trial of a drug currently used to treat lung fibrosis has shown it may also help patients who suffer from a common form of heart failure. ...

Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) today announces the relaunch of radiochemistry at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC) in Manchester. The facility, which was closed in 2020, includes the multi-million pound cyclotron, one of only a handful ...

Student volunteers from across The University of Manchester have given up over 1,000 hours of their time to support the COVID-19 vaccination programme. ...

The healthcare partnership between Kenya and the UK government has been strengthened through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). ...

Three new, state of the art MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanners and a new CT (Computed Tomography) scanner have been installed at Salford Royal, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group (NCA). ...

Patients experiencing homelessness use hospital services, especially emergency admissions, at much higher rates than housed patients according to new research published this week. ...

A University of Manchester led team of scientists has discovered that the most common form of adult blindness is probably caused by a failure of at least one of five proteins to regulate the immune system. ...

The University of Manchester has been successfully awarded a share of the £79 million committed by the Medical Research Council to support doctoral training. ...

Late last year, I asked: is it safe to have more than one type of COVID-19 vaccine? A trial has now addressed that question, as well as what effect combining different vaccine types has on immunity.Most COVID-19 vaccines require two doses, and the us...

A leading scientist has charted the recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body in a new book out tomorrow (July 1). ...

The University of Manchester, together with Health Innovation Manchester and its Academic Health Science Centre, are launching a joint venture with the Morningside Group to trial a series of new diagnostics and interventions in clinical and digital h...