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Coronavirus: we must step up research to harness immense power of the immune system

Many countries are moving to exit a lockdown triggered by COVID-19, but the virus has not gone away and there are real concerns that a second wave of infection could happen. We urgently need to understand more about how the body deals with this infection and what we can do to tackle it. Immunology has […]

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COVID-19 Social distancing having significant impacts on mental health, study shows

An early draft of a study by researchers at Swansea University and The University of Manchester shows social distancing and isolation is having significant impacts on people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. The study has been submitted for publication to BMJ Open and published online as part of an open science initiative. It found that:

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Repeat antibiotic prescribing linked to higher risk of hospital admissions

Epidemiologists at The University of Manchester have discovered an association between the number of prescriptions for antibiotics and a higher risk of hospital admissions. The study, published in BMC Medicine and funded by The National Institute for Health Research and the Connected Health Cities Programme, is based on the data of 2 million patients in

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Body clock affects how the immune system works – new findings

By David Ray, University of Oxford and Gareth Kitchen, University of Manchester All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and night. The details differ between plants, fungi, bacteria and animals, but the consistent feature is a biological “clock” that allows the organism to

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