Press releases

Experts at the University of Nottingham and University Hospitals of Derby and Burton have been awarded £1.2m from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to improve the rehabilitation of patients following surgery for finger flexor tendon injuries.

The largest study of care homes in the UK, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that a co-ordinated approach to fall prevention in care homes is effective in significantly reducing the number of times residents fall.

The Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicine (CEVM) at the University of Nottingham is to host a series of online lectures.

Experts from the University of Nottingham have been working with researchers in Indonesia to tackle colon cancer, which affects three times as many young people in the country than in the UK.

A plant-based antiviral treatment for Covid-19, recently discovered by scientists at the University of Nottingham, has been found to be just as effective at treating all variants of the virus SARS-CoV-2, even the highly infectious Delta variant.

Exercise increases the body’s own ‘cannabis’ which reduces chronic inflammation, says new study

A major clinical trial, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, will investigate whether some of the 1.3 million most vulnerable people on long-term immune suppressing medicines can mount a more robust immune response to Covid-19 booster jabs by interrupting their treatment for two weeks after vaccination.

Future healthcare professionals working in mental health and neurosciences will be trained on a new Doctoral Training Programme (DTP) thanks to a £7.24million award from Wellcome.

A Nottingham-born rising star of gastroenterology nursing has won a major national award from the Student Nursing Times.

A world-leading expert in stroke medicine from the University of Nottingham has received a highly coveted international award from the World Stroke Organization (WSO).