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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 29-Apr-2025 10:10 ET (29-Apr-2025 14:10 GMT/UTC)

£5.5 million research unit to investigate chemical health impacts in everyday life

University of Leicester
Business Announcement

- New funding from National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to establish Health Protection Research Unit in Chemical Threats and Hazards

- Led by the University of Leicester’s Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability, it will focus on chemical and environmental exposures and risks to health

- Builds on a track record of research supporting environmental policy and partnership with UK Health Security Agency and Health and Safety Executive

Funder: National Institute for Health Research

Cost-of-living crisis impacted Black health – study

Anglia Ruskin University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A groundbreaking new study has revealed the significant impact of the cost-of-living crisis on discrimination and health outcomes among Black people, with rising interest and bank rates associated with deterioration in general and mental health and rising discrimination.

Journal: Ethnic and Racial Studies

More than half of European heat-related deaths in summer 2022 attributed to anthropogenic warming

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has now found that more than half - 56% - of the heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 were related to human-induced climate change. According to the research, 38,154 of the 68,593 heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 would not have occurred without anthropogenic warming.

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Funder: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation

WISH announces shortlist for Global Healthcare Innovation Awards

WISH/QF
Grant and Award Announcement

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), an initiative of Qatar Foundation, has shortlisted 12 innovators for two awards within the 2024 WISH Global Healthcare Innovation Competition. Selected from more than 150 applications, the 12 will showcase their groundbreaking innovations to global policymakers and healthcare leaders at this year’s summit in Doha, 13-14 November.

Meeting: WORLD INNOVATION SUMMIT FOR HEALTH 2024

Change in the law could help families of missing persons

Staffordshire University
Business Announcement

AN EXPERT on missing persons and unidentified human remains is hoping her research can help bring about a change in the law.

Work carried out by Emma Tilley, who is completing her PhD in Criminology and Policing at University of Staffordshire, is included in a Law Commission public consultation on burial and cremation.

Emma, who has starred in Locate International’s Channel 4 documentary series The Body Detectives, has been critically reviewing the cross-matching of unidentified human remains and missing persons reports in England and Wales.

She has identified that there are currently around 800 unsolved cases involving unidentified bodies or body parts. She has also revealed that while 27 per cent of local authorities typically bury the bodies or remains of unidentified people, around a third are likely to cremate them as part of their duties under the Public Health Act 1984.

Echocardiographic measurements in normal Chinese adults (EMINCA) II focusing on left ventricular and left atrial size and function by three-dimensional echocardiography

Higher Education Press

The study focuses on establishing normative values for left ventricular (LV) and left atrial (LA) size and function using three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) among healthy Han Chinese adults. This prospective, multicenter research was conducted across various age groups and aimed to account for ethnic variations not covered by existing American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) guidelines. The investigation revealed significant differences in cardiac measurements when compared to global standards, underscoring the need for population-specific norms.

Journal: Frontiers of Medicine

Maternal health expert professor Vicki Clifton reveals placenta's hidden role in mental health

Genomic Press
Reports and Proceedings

Professor Vicki Clifton, a leading maternal health researcher at Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland, unveils revolutionary findings about the placenta's role in maternal mental health and fetal development. Her work on sex-specific placental responses and stress mechanisms during pregnancy is reshaping approaches to obstetric care and perinatal mental health management.