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New PhD scholarships launched by Dunhill Medical Trust - Reimagine Ageing

Reimagine Ageing Doctoral Research Programme to improve quality of life, functional capacity and well-being of older people and through the Leeds Reimagine Ageing (RA) Network. Deadline 7 May.

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.

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Nanosurgical tool could be key to cancer breakthrough

A nanosurgical tool - about 500 times thinner than a human hair - could give insights into cancer treatment resistance that no other technology has been able to do, according to a new study.