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News Launch of new international medical code for presymptomatic type 1 diabetes University of Birmingham and NHS England researchers have created a diagnostic code for presymptomatic type 1 diabetes to enhance healthcare treatment.
26 June 2023 Healthy Mum, Healthy Baby, Healthy Future – One year on, what progress have we made? More than 800 women and 12,000 babies die each day from pregnancy-related complications... How much longer will we wait for new drugs to treat these conditions?
14 June 2023 Historian from the University of Birmingham discusses Victorian Bodybuilding on the BBC Dr Vanessa Heggie recently joined the BBC podcast series ‘You’re Dead to Me’, for an episode highlighting the bodybuilding boom of the 19th and 20th centuries.
24 May 2023 £2.5 million grant for West Midlands researchers to tackle urgent health and social care questions Grant allows West Midlands researchers to provide evidence to policymakers in health and social care to ensure the highest quality of care is received.
06 May 2023 Domestic abuse exposure linked to increased levels of asthma and other atopic diseases New research of nearly 14,000 women with history of abuse including violence found 52% increase risk of atopic disease