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Multiple measures boost Covid fight, study finds

02 November, 2020

Public health restrictions put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus are ranked for their…

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…