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New research has found that reality TV programmes like Love Island, TOWIE and Geordie Shore have exposed children and young people to smoking and alcohol, partly because they’re available on catch-up outside the 9pm watershed.

A Nottingham mother whose daughter died from an aggressive brain tumour last year, has raised over £21,000 for the University of Nottingham’s Children’s Brain Tumour Research Centre.

Having a supportive partner can make a difference in helping pregnant women give up smoking, according to new study by a team of East Midlands researchers.

Important new clues about how a common parasite found in cat faeces invades the human brain have been revealed by a team of scientists, using cutting-edge infrared microspectroscopy analysis.

Trauma survivors are to play a major role in helping to develop and trial a new rehabilitation programme that will help people who have suffered a serious injury to return to work.

A group of children and young people are helping experts to test a new way of managing childhood constipation by swallowing harmless mini-capsules that show up on MRI scans to track their digestion.

The Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit is celebrating its move into new premises on University Park after outgrowing its old space in the Queen's Medical Centre.

An inspirational University of Nottingham nursing researcher, Josephine NwaAmaka Bardi, has been named among the Nation’s Lifesavers by the Universities UK MadeAtUni campaign.

A landmark clinical trial is aiming to improve the prevention of potentially life-threatening infection caused by group B Streptococcus in newborn babies in the UK.

Inspirational stories of how people have overcome their struggles with mental illness can help others on the road to recovery, a study by researchers at The University of Nottingham has found.