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Half as many AF patients dying of heart attacks and strokes

Published
25 August 2023
Categories
Health
Science
Research

Patients living with one of the UK’s most common heart rhythm conditions are 50% less likely to die from a heart attack or stroke than they were at the start of the millennium, new research has found.

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What worms can tell us about brains and behaviour

Published
23 August 2023
Categories
Science
Research

The University of Leeds has collaborated with a leading American institution on research that helps to crack the code that relates brain and behaviour.

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Pioneering new approaches in healthcare

Published
18 August 2023
Categories
News
Business and partnerships

A new collaboration between researchers at the University of Leeds and the Leeds Health and Care Partnership will explore how best to support people with multiple long-term health conditions.

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Vice-Chancellor appointed as IHEC Commissioner

Published
18 August 2023
Categories
Global

Professor Simone Buitendijk, Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Leeds, will help set the future path for higher education following her appointment to an influential body.

Image taken by a satellite which shows dust billowing out of the Copper River Valley and extending out over the coast and into the atmosphere.

The role of dust on the world's climate

Published
17 August 2023
Categories
Environment
Science
Global

Giant dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska can last for many days and send tonnes of fine sediment or silt into the atmosphere, and it is having an impact on the global climate system, say scientists.

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Raising awareness of Long Covid blue legs symptom

Published
16 August 2023
Categories
Health
Coronavirus
Science
Research

An unusual case of a Long Covid patient’s legs turning blue after 10 minutes of standing highlights the need for greater awareness of this symptom among people with the condition, new research shows.

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Making plant-based meat alternatives more palatable

Published
15 August 2023
Categories
Global
Science
Working with business

One of the biggest obstacles to the uptake of plant-based alternatives to meat is their very dry and astringent feel when they are eaten.

Dr Emily Caseley, Kasia Hammond, Emily Rolfe, Izzie Gibson and Rebecca Motley teach children how to keep themselves healthy.

Children turn scientists in outdoor lab

Published
9 August 2023
Categories
University

Children learned how robot doctors could transform healthcare at this year’s Child Friendly Leeds Live event.

Penguin and a seal on ice shelf the ocean is behind them with large ice glaciers in the distance and setting sun turning the glaciers a pink colour

‘Don’t overlook the plight of Antarctica’ say scientists

Published
8 August 2023
Categories
Science
Global
Environment
Research

With world attention on recent wildfires and floods in North America, Europe and China, people should not overlook the devastating impact of climate change in Antarctica, scientists have warned.