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Hospitals need to be able to predict their capacity for admitting patients when planning elective surgeries. Researchers funded by HDR UK developed a new model for making forecasts that were more...
Previously, there has been conflicting evidence on how an asthma diagnosis affects the risk of severe COVID-19 cases. A new analysis of health records of 38 million people in England found that...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a high number of deaths in care homes in the UK and other countries. A study across care homes in Wales has found that hospital discharges contributed only a small...
Metformin is a commonly used diabetes drug that is also thought to benefit people who have heart failure. Researchers studied large-scale health records to understand the impact of diabetes...
Obesity dramatically increases the risk of death from COVID-19 but, the extent of this risk across different body weights and ethnic groups was not clear. Researchers using health and Census...
People with severe mental illness have a lower life expectancy and a higher risk of physical conditions. To improve how these comorbidities can be detected and predicted, researchers have used...
Diabetes is not only a major health problem in itself, but it also increases the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease. Researchers have used national healthcare records to identify the...
The current standard measure of glucose control is not useful for measuring short-term changes and can struggle to work in people with some blood conditions. Researchers supported by HDR UK used a...
A large-scale clinical trial of a monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19 showed that it could reduce deaths by 21 per cent in people who had not mounted a natural antibody response of their own.
