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Released: 15-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Podcast: NFL, the Super Bowl and the future of American football in the UK
Loughborough University

Jo Maher (Pro Vice-chancellor for Sport), Lamonte Winston (Head of NFL Academy at Loughborough) and Steve Hagan (Head Coach at the NFL Academy at Loughborough) talk about the NFL Academy, Super Bowl and the future of American football in the UK.

16-Jan-2024 11:00 AM EST
Nurse home visits have a lasting impact for disadvantaged mothers and daughters
University College London

Nurse home visits to disadvantaged mothers can significantly reduce their rates of hypertension and their daughters’ likelihood of obesity, finds a new reanalysis of health data by a team led by a UCL researcher.

   
Newswise: Reimagining rehabilitation: Iceland’s open prisons offer a blueprint for UK’s foreign national prisoners
Released: 15-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Reimagining rehabilitation: Iceland’s open prisons offer a blueprint for UK’s foreign national prisoners
University of Portsmouth

A new study suggests the UK prison system should learn lessons from Icelandic prisons to transform the lives of foreign national prisoners.

Released: 15-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Researchers propose revised scoring system for recognising outstanding NHS clinicians
SAGE Publications UK

A team of researchers has developed a new scoring system for a nationwide scheme, overseen by the Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards (ACCIA), to recognise and reward senior doctors and dentists in England and Wales.

25-Oct-2023 8:20 AM EDT
Number of dementia cases could be 42% higher than previously estimated by 2040
University College London

Up to 1.7 million people could be living with dementia in England and Wales by 2040 – over 40% more than previously forecast – finds a new UCL-led study.

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Released: 15-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
UK manufacturers need more support to help us reach net zero, new report says
University of Sheffield

The UK needs to make better electrical machines and make its manufacturing processes more efficient if it is to reach net zero by 2050, according to a world leading group of engineers.

   
Released: 4-Aug-2023 2:50 PM EDT
New study shows increase in Welsh breastfeeding rates during pandemic
Swansea University

A Swansea University-led study revealed breastfeeding rates in Wales increased during the pandemic.

19-Jul-2023 8:30 AM EDT
Two in three cosmetic surgery injections in the UK are not administered by doctors
University College London

According to an analysis of the UK’s cosmetic injectables industry by UCL researchers, 68% of cosmetic practitioners who are administering injections such as Botox are not qualified medical doctors.

Released: 17-Jul-2023 11:15 AM EDT
Significant rise in ADHD diagnoses in the UK
University College London

Both ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions for ADHD medication have increased significantly over the past two decades, except in children under five, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

Released: 6-Jun-2023 4:00 PM EDT
Breastfeeding for longer may be linked to better exam results in later life
BMJ

Children who are breastfed for longer appear to be more likely to gain slightly better results in their school GSCEs at age 16 compared with non-breastfed children, suggests a study published online in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.

   
Released: 2-Jun-2023 1:55 PM EDT
Why we need to fall out of love with flaky white fish - study
University of Essex

The UK’s growing mismatch between the fish we catch and the fish we want to eat has clear implications for our future food security, according to new research.

Released: 2-Jun-2023 1:55 PM EDT
UK’s poorest children likelier to have less understanding of personal finances, study finds
Taylor & Francis

A new study of 3,745 families from across the UK demonstrates a “sizeable” gap in the financial knowledge of children depending on which socio-economic group they come from.

Newswise: Longtime UK child neurologist receives Governor’s Service Award
Released: 23-May-2023 12:40 PM EDT
Longtime UK child neurologist receives Governor’s Service Award
University of Kentucky

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) Secretary Eric Friedlander recognized UK HealthCare’s Robert J. Baumann, M.D., with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Baumann has worked in the field of child neurology in Kentucky for more than five decades. He was key in establishing the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs (OCSHCN) network of regional medical clinics in Eastern Kentucky.

Released: 18-May-2023 7:40 PM EDT
Rising rates of induced labor need to be reconsidered in the context of the UK maternity services staffing crisis, study suggests
City University London

A new study suggests that increasing rates of induction of labour (IOL) of pregnant women and people in the UK, without considering the accompanying, real-world impact on staffing workloads and patient care, may have unintended consequences.

Released: 18-May-2023 6:45 PM EDT
Accelerated Christian Education textbooks used in UK schools deny human-caused climate change
University College London

One of the world’s largest fundamentalist Christian education groups is teaching its students climate change denial as fact, and still presents the theory of evolution as an ‘absurd and discredited’ conspiracy theory, finds a report by UCL researchers.

Released: 11-May-2023 3:00 PM EDT
Risk of long COVID higher for people living in most deprived areas
University of Southampton

New research led by the universities of Southampton and Oxford has found that the risk of long COVID is strongly associated with area-level deprivation, with the odds of having long COVID 46 percent higher for people from the most deprived areas, compared to those in the least deprived areas.

Newswise: Research integrity recognized as major problem but new report falls short
Released: 11-May-2023 11:00 AM EDT
Research integrity recognized as major problem but new report falls short
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

Digital Science welcomes a new parliamentary report into research integrity but says it "doesn't go far enough".

   
10-May-2023 6:00 AM EDT
Research reveals majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage
University of Bristol

As the cost of living continues to spiral, a new report shows more than half of gig economy workers in the UK are paid below the minimum wage.

Released: 4-May-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Sexist and impossible standards are still entrenched in UK political reporting, new study finds
University of Surrey

Female politicians continue to be subjected to sexist, impossible standards at the hands of the UK media, according to a new study conducted by the University of Surrey.



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