Health News

University to host centre for cancer clinical trials

Published
25 June 2014
Categories
Science
Health

Cancer patients across Yorkshire will soon have better access to pioneering treatments following the establishment of a new clinical trials centre at the University of Leeds.

Researchers find clue to stopping Alzheimer's-like diseases

Published
25 June 2014
Categories
Health

Tiny differences in mice that make them peculiarly resistant to a family of conditions that includes Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease may provide clues for treatments in humans.

'Often and early' gives children a taste for vegetables

Published
30 May 2014
Categories
Society & Politics
Health

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, new research from the University of Leeds suggests.

Big data to help blood cancer patients

Published
20 May 2014
Categories
Health

A pioneering database at the University of Leeds will help match patients with certain types of blood cancers to the best treatments.

Nearly 40,000 hospital bug cases missed each year

Published
15 May 2014
Categories
Health

More than 39,000 cases of the hospital bug Clostridium difficile are missed in Europe each year because of a lack of clinical suspicion or inadequate lab testing, a Europe-wide study led by University of Leeds experts has found.

Health experts investigate new fitness regimes

Published
1 May 2014
Categories
Health

Researchers looking at ways to improve government physical activity guidelines and tackle Britain's fitness crisis are calling for volunteers to take part in a new study.

Ambulance ECGs save lives, study finds

Published
14 April 2014
Categories
Health

People are more likely to survive a heart attack if they have an electrocardiogram (ECG) in the ambulance on the way to hospital, research by the University of Leeds has shown.

New investment for medical imaging device

Published
8 April 2014
Categories
Technology
Health

Quantum Imaging Ltd, a University of Leeds spin out, has secured a £1.6 million investment to develop its medical imaging technology.