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Using NHS data to predict patients’ risk of falling

Patients’ risk of falling in the next 12 months could be predicted from their NHS data using a newly developed calculator.

Older people in a care home setting. Two are playing chess and one person is looking at a book with a carer. Another person is sitting in a wheelchair talking to a carer.

Care home staff and residents need ‘family’ bonds to thrive

Care home residents receive much better care when they enjoy ‘family’ bonds with staff – but staff must be empowered to create these bonds, new research has found.

Someone putting sweeteners in a hot drink.

Sweeteners can improve weight loss maintenance, new research suggests

Replacing sugar with low-energy sweetened products can help weight control for at least one year after rapid weight loss in adults without increasing risk of type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease.

Leeds Professors named in latest round of NIHR Senior Investigator awards

Professor Gordon Cook and Professor Robbie Foy have been announced in the new line up of NIHR Senior Investigators.

2 scientists looking at x ray

Cancer deaths plummet in middle aged people

Fewer middle-aged people are dying from cancer in the UK than at any point over the last 25 years, new research shows.

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