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A retinal scan

AI can identify heart disease from an eye scan

Published
25 January 2022
Categories
Global
Science
Health
Technology

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can analyse eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and identify patients at a high risk of a heart attack.

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Tracking a city’s young people as they come of age

Published
20 January 2022
Categories
Working with our region
Health
Science

Researchers have secured £7 million to fund the next stage of the pioneering Born in Bradford study into the health and wellbeing of the city’s young people.

Professor Cath Noakes with a member of the audience  doing an experiment

COVID-19 ‘has reshaped science forever’

Published
20 December 2021
Categories
Science
Coronavirus
Health

Following in a long line of eminent scientists and engineers, Professor Cath Noakes will stand in the Royal Institution’s iconic auditorium and explain the big ideas reshaping society.

Street sign which says 'Playground'

Inequalities blighting children's lives in the North

Published
7 December 2021
Categories
Society & Politics
Working with our region
Coronavirus
Health

Children growing up in the North of England face greater poverty and are more likely to die before reaching their first birthday than children in other parts of England, according to a new report.

A graphic showing the  virus responsible for COVID-19

Visualising your COVID-19 risk

Published
30 November 2021
Categories
Coronavirus
Science
Health

A new interactive graphic developed by UK researchers and published by The BMJ will help people decide what to do in everyday situations to protect themselves, and others, from COVID-19.

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Assessing household mixing during the pandemic

Published
25 November 2021
Categories
Technology
Health
Coronavirus

Key data showing how people adhered to the UK government’s COVID-19 laws preventing household mixing in England have been analysed for the first time.