Press releases

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has been appointed Honorary Professor within the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, in the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham.

A single dose of vaccine boosts protection against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants, but only in those with previous Covid-19, a study has found.

A new MRI study could reveal why some people are more likely to become obese than others by examining what happens in the brain and gut when people consume food high in fat and carbohydrate.

Addressing misinformation and mistrust, inclusive communication, involving healthcare workers in the vaccine rollout, and promoting vaccination through trusted networks, could play an important role in helping to tackle vaccine hesitancy amongst healthcare workers from ethnic minorities, according to a new study.

Black healthcare workers treating patients in hospitals during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, were more likely than their white counterparts to have had coronavirus infections, even when other influences - including work roles and socio-economic factors - are taken into account, according to a new study.

English students at the University of Nottingham have found a novel way of staying in touch with people in care homes they used to visit for face-to-face poetry and literature reading sessions.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed an ultrasonic imaging system, which can be deployed on the tip of a hair-thin optical fibre, and will be insertable into the human body to visualise cell abnormalities in 3D.

Experts from the University of Nottingham are looking for volunteers to take part in an MRI study into a common treatment for constipation.

A new study into schools in the Midlands by the University of Nottingham, in partnership with the Confederation of School Trusts, has found their response to the pandemic was likely to have been enhanced by being members of a Trust.

A wearable brain scanner is being used, for the first time, to investigate the brain activity in elderly people whilst driving a car.