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The role that online resources have played in supporting the wellbeing of unpaid carers and keeping them connected during the COVID-19 lockdown is being highlighted this week by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ team behind Care Companion, an online tool that has been supporting over 300 carers in Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire.

Building connections between GP practices and local parkrun events could help to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and staff, finds a new study by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½.

The majority of women’s healthcare units in the UK, including services such as maternity and gynaecological cancers, have adapted well to the initial COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new survey by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ researchers.

As modern life-styles and high calorie diets drive the UK’s obesity levels up, researchers from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have found how cells respond to fasting and activate the process called autophagy, which means a healthier lifestyle can be promoted to help people maintain a healthy body weight.

The second round of results from a three-survey study published today by a collaboration involving the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ highlights the ongoing concerns nurses and midwives in the UK have about COVID-19 and the risks it poses to their own physical and mental health, as well as the health of their families.

Researchers in ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to the use of, and production of, future tests.