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August
2018
Around 138 million women are affected by a distressing but treatable fungal infection world-wide, according to a research review by University of Manchester scientists.
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July
2018
An estimated 600 stillbirths annually could be prevented if maternity units adopt national best practice according to an independent evaluation which includes University of Manchester experts.
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26
July
2018
University of Manchester and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust scientists have developed a lamp which could treat chronic ulcers with light.
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25
July
2018
A study of 16 Nigerian women living with domestic abuse has shown how they are too frightened of being deported to ask for help from the UK authorities.
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23
July
2018
The world's first “test tube” baby was conceived by IVF in Greater Manchester, at Dr Kershaw's Hospital in Royton. Louise Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital forty years ago on 25 July 1978.
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12
July
2018
A new commentary by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh on a study by Taiwanese epidemiologists supports the viability of a potential way to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
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11
July
2018
The region is holding a Festival of Ageing - and The University of Manchester has just had a week of major activities which highlighted its enormous strength and depth of ageing research.
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11
July
2018
Proposals have been announced to create a world-leading precision medicine campus in the Corridor Manchester Enterprise Zone, located on the UK’s largest clinical academic campus - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
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11
July
2018
The first national online survey to give members of the public the opportunity to set the research priorities in the field of ethnic inequalities and severe mental illness has been launched today.
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09
July
2018
Professor Graham Lord, a leading clinical academic and the Director of one of the country’s major biomedical research centres is to join The University of Manchester as Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.
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06
July
2018
A team at The University of Manchester have developed a novel stem cell gene therapy approach to treat children with a devastating genetic disease. The approach is currently being developed for clinical trial in patients with the disease.
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05
July
2018
The University of Manchester has secured a National Lottery grant of £785,000 for ’NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives’. The project will create the first shared social history of the National Health Service.
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02
July
2018
The University of Manchester has been awarded funding for two Policy Research Units to explore how the health needs of the ageing population are to be met and to investigate how health and care systems and commissioning will look in the future.
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29
June
2018
In the largest ever trial of an intervention to treat people with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in primary care, researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Manchester, Dundee and Glasgow found that the patient-centred approach taken...
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28
June
2018
University of Manchester scientists have developed a new gene therapy they hope will treat children with a rare but devastating brain disease, and plan to take it to clinical trial in the near future.
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25
June
2018
A potential new way of treating cerebral malaria has been discovered by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, in a study using mice.
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21
June
2018
The light produced by mobile phones which may stop us from feeling sleepy, can be modified to give us all a well-earned rest, say scientists from the Universities of Manchester and Basel.
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21
June
2018
A new genetic test that could identify the risk of, and therefore help to avoid permanent antibiotic-related hearing loss in newborn babies is being developed in Manchester
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20
June
2018
A study in the United States has shown that attitudes among community nurses are important for their compliance with infection control practices.
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14
June
2018
A survey has estimated that around three million Britons - or 7.6 % of the country - believe they have experienced a harmful or potentially harmful but preventable problem in primary healthcare.
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11
June
2018
The University of Manchester’s Professor of New Writing, Jeanette Winterson has been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, announced over the weekend.
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06
June
2018
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, will officially open the Royal College of Surgeons’ new Outreach hub at The University of Manchester Innovation Centre today (6 June). The new hub will give the RCS a full-time, staffed presence in the N...
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05
June
2018
A little-known medical aid society in South Wales inspired Aneurin Bevan to create the NHS, according to unique audio on a digital archive launched today, one month before the service’s seventieth anniversary.
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01
June
2018
New research by University of Manchester psychologists has revealed that imitation of movement can help people with Parkinson’s.
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31
May
2018
The number of GPs who say they are likely to quit direct patient care within five years rose to 39% in 2017 from 35% in 2015, according to a new survey carried out by University of Manchester researchers.
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30
May
2018
A conflict surgeon who has risked his life in some of the world’s most dangerous conflicts is to deliver this year’s Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture at The University of Manchester on 31 May.
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24
May
2018
Two initiatives developed by University of Manchester-based entrepreneurs have won £10,000 each from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) at a national awards ceremony.
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23
May
2018
A scheme providing fruit and veg vouchers to low-income families with young children has brought about significant nutritional improvements in families’ diets, new research has shown.
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21
May
2018
There's a crisis in psychology – here's how technology could provide a solution Technology involving virtual reality could teach us a lot about the human psyche. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Keith Holcomb), CC BY-SA
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11
May
2018
A new study published today has found a way to identify men with locally advanced prostate cancer who are less likely to respond well to radiotherapy.
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