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The role that online resources have played in supporting the wellbeing of unpaid carers and keeping them connected during the COVID-19 lockdown is being highlighted this week by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ team behind Care Companion, an online tool that has been supporting over 300 carers in Coventry and ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵshire.

Building connections between GP practices and local parkrun events could help to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and staff, finds a new study by the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ.

The majority of women’s healthcare units in the UK, including services such as maternity and gynaecological cancers, have adapted well to the initial COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new survey by University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers.

As modern life-styles and high calorie diets drive the UK’s obesity levels up, researchers from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have found how cells respond to fasting and activate the process called autophagy, which means a healthier lifestyle can be promoted to help people maintain a healthy body weight.

The second round of results from a three-survey study published today by a collaboration involving the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ highlights the ongoing concerns nurses and midwives in the UK have about COVID-19 and the risks it poses to their own physical and mental health, as well as the health of their families.

Researchers in ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Medical School at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have developed a way to create more crucial reagents for use in COVID-19 tests that could also provide enhancements to the use of, and production of, future tests.