Stroke in childhood and adolescence: outcome influenced by parental education and income: Children from educationally deprived, low-income families are much more likely to face long-term cognitive impairment following a stroke. Such is the main finding of a recent study conducted at MedUni Vienna’s Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine under the supervision of Lisa Bartha-Doering […]
Migrants and refugees say COVID-19 has dramatically worsened their lives: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a highly negative impact on the living and working conditions of refugees and migrants reveals a new WHO study, launched on International Migrants Day. More than 30,000 refugees and migrants from different regions around the world participated in the first ever […]
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My midwifery trip to Africa: elephants, lions and delivering six babies: Trip to Tanzania was privilege, says midwifery graduate Aneeqa Hussain has worked hard to get where she is today, at one point going back to college for a year to secure the grades she needed in order to continue her university studies. She graduates […]
Targets for avoidable sight loss ‘not being met’, 30-year study finds: A new global study has found no significant reduction in the number of people with treatable sight loss since 2010. Published in The Lancet Global Health, it examined population-based surveys of eye disease worldwide from 1980 and found public health services across the world are […]
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New report sets out £30bn in government savings: How the Government can save £30 billion. The Centre for Policy Studies has set out nine practical ideas for savings or asset sales which would deliver £30 billion a year to the Treasury without impacting frontline services or the coronavirus response READ MORE The coronavirus crisis has […]
Early adolescence is where gender inequalities most markedly emerge, according to new research from across 40 low- and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific. The research, published in Lancet Global Health and led by researchers at Burnet Institute and the University of Melbourne, is the first systemic analysis of gender inequality across childhood and adolescence. Funded by UNICEF, […]
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Queen’s University Belfast scientists support major food-security investigation in aid to Africa. Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast helped identify the cause of a crisis – and avert a larger catastrophe – in humanitarian aid to Africa run by the World Food Programme (WFP) – winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2020. Researchers at the university’s […]
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NHS Employers welcomes funding for research projects to investigate COVID-19 and ethnicity. A total of £4.3 million of funding has been awarded to six new research projects to investigate COVID-19 and ethnicity by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), including £2.1 million for the University of Leicester-led UK-REACH study, […]
COVID-19 patients admitted from more deprived regions are at higher risk of intensive care admission, new study finds. Black, Asian minority ethic patients with COVID-19 are more likely to be admitted to hospital from regions with higher levels of air pollution, lower quality housing and overcrowded living conditions and are more likely to be admitted […]
The pressures facing young carers during the COVID-19 pandemic are revealed in new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA). The restrictions of lockdown and the anxiety related to the risks associated with COVID-19 have been central to young carers’ difficulties, increasing their caring load, preventing them from getting a break or from turning […]
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