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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.
21 July 2023 New resources to improve patient and public involvement in health research Patients and members of the public will be able to more easily take part in research thanks to a new tool developed by Birmingham’s work on Long COVID.
10 July 2023 Tip of the iceberg: research to understand experiences and needs of people with eating disorders New project to bring anthropological approach to understand lived experience of people with eating disorders
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.