News 2022

A selection of news from the Usher Institute in 2022.

News listing

Publication date

New study highlights disruptive impact of pandemic on non-COVID NHS care in Scotland

06 October, 2020

A new study highlights significant drops in A&E attendances, and emergency and planned hospital…

Covid-19 risk tool helps guide treatment

06 October, 2020

People who are admitted to hospital with Covid-19 can be divided into four distinct groups,…

DataLoch heralds new data-driven era in healthcare innovation

06 October, 2020

A new data repository has been created to bring together health and social care data for the first…

New global collaborative to enable secure COVID-19 data research at scale

26 June, 2020

The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator has announced a grant to Health Data Research UK to establish…

Salt water solution could treat COVID-19 symptoms

25 June, 2020

A study involving a simple salt water solution which may help to reduce the early symptoms and…

Home blood pressure test eases GP demand

19 June, 2020

Patients who need a blood pressure test might not need to visit their GP thanks to a digital system…

Home DNA test data to boost Covid-19 fight

17 June, 2020

Data from popular home genetic-testing kits could help scientists shed light on why some people who…

Usher Institute COVID-19 roundup

08 June, 2020

In this brief overview of some highlighted activities we aim to give you a flavour of the range of…

Usher researchers in the news

02 June, 2020

Academics from Usher have been making a significant contribution to coverage and improving public…