Press Releases
New clinical trial to test whether structured exercise benefits ‘long Covid’ patients
Researchers at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and University Hospitals Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire (UHCW) NHS Trust are to investigate whether a tailored online exercise and support programme would benefit those experiencing long-term symptoms of Covid-19 – what has been dubbed ‘long Covid’.
Insecure livelihoods hindering efforts to combat anti-microbial resistance globally
Patients living in precarious circumstances are less likely to use antibiotics appropriately according to a new study from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, suggesting that efforts to improve conditions for those with little security in their livelihoods could have an unexpected benefit in helping to tackle antimicrobial resistance globally.
Tracing positive COVID-19 cases and their contacts less successful in more deprived areas, new analysis reveals
New analysis from the Health Foundation, led by an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at ¹û¶³´«Ã½, published in The Lancet shows that a smaller proportion of positive COVID-19 cases and their contacts are reached by NHS Test and Trace in more deprived areas than in less deprived areas.
£1m to boost resilience and unity of poor communities in Brazil & Colombia
A project to strengthen the resilience of disadvantaged, disenfranchised, and at-risk neighbourhoods in Brazil and Colombia — led by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, UK — has received around a million pounds from (GCRF) Collective Fund.
Fast-moving gas flowing away from young star’s asteroid belt may be caused by icy comet vaporisation
A team of astronomers, including a scientist from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, has detected fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a young, low-mass star: a unique stage of planetary system evolution which may provide insight into how our own solar system evolved and suggests that the way systems develop may be more complicated than previously thought.
Rapid-forming giants could disrupt spiral protoplanetary discs
Giant planets that developed early in a star system’s life could solve a mystery of why spiral structures are not observed in young protoplanetary discs, according to a new study by ¹û¶³´«Ã½ astronomers.