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Professor Manish Pareek

Leicester-led research reveals long COVID’s lasting impact on healthcare workers

Major research has found that long COVID continues to affect a substantial proportion of healthcare workers, with serious consequences for their health, work and home lives, and NHS workforce overall.

Blood test detects lingering lung damage after COVID‑19

A study into the long-term health impacts of coronavirus, led by experts from the University of Leicester, Imperial College London and University College London, has found changes in the blood …

Exercise can help to restore the immune system of people with post-COVID syndrome

Exercise can help to restore a more normal, well-regulated immune system in people with post-COVID syndrome, according to a gold-standard randomised-controlled trial presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in …

Migrant status compounds inequality for ethnic minority NHS staff, new study finds

Ethnic minority healthcare workers who are also born overseas face a double disadvantage due to the combined effects of ethnicity and migrant status, according to new research published in JRSM …

Study finds ethnicity, mental health and age predict NHS workers’ plans to quit

Around 43 per cent of NHS workers who took part in a recent study have considered leaving their role or taking early retirement. The national study, published today in Lancet …

Long-term cognitive and psychiatric effects of COVID-19 revealed in new study

Many people who were hospitalised with COVID-19 continue to have cognitive and psychiatric problems even two to three years post-infection, according to a new study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Leicester diabetes researcher’s success honoured at international conference

A professor from the University of Leicester has received a prestigious award in recognition of his in-depth research in diabetes.

The phosp covid team at the MRC Impact awards evening

Leicester team behind major study into the long-term impacts of COVID-19 is highly commended

A Leicester team behind a major UK study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients has been recognised by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Ethnic minority groups under-represented in long COVID research, study demonstrates

Leicester academics have highlighted that ethnic minorities are under-represented in long COVID research in a paper published in Nature Medicine, earlier this summer. 

Leicester-led study finds long-COVID leaves tell-tale traces in the blood

A study into the long-term health impacts of coronavirus, led by experts from the University of Leicester, has found long-COVID leaves tell-tale traces in the blood.

Longer-term organ abnormalities confirmed in some post-hospitalised COVID patients

A study looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that nearly a third of patients displayed abnormalities in multiple organs five months after infection, some of which have been …

Disturbed sleep may partially explain Long COVID breathlessness, find researchers

A major UK study co-led by researchers from the NIHR Leicester BRC, has discovered that the disturbed sleep patterns in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 was likely to be a driver …

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