113 results for 'coronavirus'
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- 13 May 2021
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Science | Health | Be Curious
Leading experts in the transmission of airborne pathogens are calling for tighter regulations to control air quality in buildings – as a way of reducing the spread of COVID-19 and other illnesses.
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- 25 February 2021
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- Arts & Culture
The International Medieval Congress (IMC), one of the biggest academic conferences taking place online in the world this year, is to take climates as its theme.
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- 22 February 2021
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Business & Economy | Society & Politics
The benefits system needs to change in order to properly support claimants during and after COVID-19, a major national research project has concluded.
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- 9 February 2021
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Society & Politics
The ways in which discrimination is worsening the impact of COVID-19 on people in Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups in the UK will be explored in a new research project.
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- 9 February 2021
- Categories
- Coronavirus
As Student Volunteering Week kicks off around the UK, we celebrate the huge contribution that University of Leeds students make locally, nationally and internationally.
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- 22 January 2021
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Health
Dramatic changes were seen in the delivery of radiotherapy treatments for cancer during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in England.
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- 20 January 2021
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- Science | Health | Coronavirus
Data analysis by researchers at the University of Leeds is revealing a second sharp drop in the number of people admitted to hospital in England with acute heart failure or a heart attack.
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- 15 January 2021
- Categories
- Science | Health
A new study involving the University has found that since the first coronavirus lockdown the number of people diagnosed with bowel cancer in England has fallen sharply.
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- 11 December 2020
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Science | Health
Results from a study of children with cancer who tested positive for COVID-19 has found they were not at an increased risk of getting a severe coronavirus infection.
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- 11 December 2020
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Technology | Health
Two new research programmes aimed at reducing the effects and transmission of COVID-19 have been announced.
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- 8 December 2020
- Categories
- Global | Environment | Global | Environment
A new study shows that strong and rapid action to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will help to slow down the rate of global warming over the next 20 years.
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- 7 December 2020
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Business & Economy
Investment in small, new innovative companies in the UK collapsed by a third during the COVID-19 pandemic, damaging the prospects of thousands of high-growth firms.
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- 4 December 2020
- Categories
- Coronavirus | Health | Science
A new study suggests that COVID-19 guidance in Sweden may have reduced people’s risks of having a heart attack.
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- 30 November 2020
- Categories
- Society & Politics | Coronavirus
Researchers investigating the public response to official COVID-19 guidance say people can be split into six distinct groups determined by the way they search for, follow and act upon official advice.
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- 26 November 2020
- Categories
- Technology | Health | Coronavirus
Analysis of social media messages between care home staff revealed growing concerns about lack of guidance as the pandemic swept the country.