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Childhood obesity linked with mother’s unhealthy diet before pregnancy
New research led by the University of Southampton shows supporting women to eat a healthy diet pre-pregnancy could reduce risk of obesity...
Jan 5, 2022
Counting long-COVID: an interview with Dr Nisreen Alwan
Having contracted COVID-19 is early 2020, and unable to shake off symptoms, Dr Nisreen Alwan found her interest in long-COVID becoming...
Dec 29, 2021
World’s first plant-based COVID-19 vaccine shares positive results
A Southampton-led UK study into the world's first plant-based COVID-19 vaccine has found it is 75% effective against the Delta variant....
Dec 21, 2021
Southampton professor selected for Diabetes UK’s highest award
Professor Christopher Byrne is to be honoured with the Banting Memorial Lecture Award. The leader in metabolic medicine will deliver the...
Dec 20, 2021
Long-COVID patients treated in hospital show limited recovery after one year
People treated in hospital with COVID-19 who remained unwell at five months show limited further recovery after one year, according to...
Dec 16, 2021
Nutrition experts urge greater action to improve children’s physical health
Southampton researchers have joined calls for the appointment of a Cabinet Minister for Children. Professors Keith Godfrey, Mark Hanson...
Dec 16, 2021
Southampton research reveals why exercise helps people with asthma
Exercise improves asthma symptoms and reduces lung inflammation, but until now it has not been clear how it does this. New research...
Dec 15, 2021
Respiratory discovery could improve survival of COVID-19 intensive care patients
Southampton researchers have revealed one reason why COVID-19 patients on ventilators have trouble breathing, and how refining a...
Dec 15, 2021
Southampton anaesthetist to lead national pain relief study for emergency bowel surgery
Patients having emergency bowel surgery at 15 UK hospitals will be offered a new pain relief technique in a trial to help ease recovery...
Dec 10, 2021
Arts and science combine to help young people make positive health choices
A new programme for young people in Southampton is helping teenagers discover how their lifestyle choices influence not only their own...
Dec 10, 2021
Researchers highlight importance of nutrition in teenage growth and development
Southampton researchers are calling for more studies into the effect of nutrition during adolescence. In a series of papers published in...
Dec 10, 2021
Healthy volunteers needed to help fight lung disease
Southampton researchers are looking for healthy people between 40 and 75 years of age to take part in a study seeking to improve care for...
Dec 3, 2021
Fitness before cancer surgery shown to be important predictor of survival
New research with cancer patients has shown being fit before surgery influences outcomes more than muscle-wastage associated with cancer...
Nov 29, 2021
Pregnant women needed for COVID-19 vaccine study in Southampton
Pregnant women in Southampton are being invited to take part in a COVID-19 vaccine study. Preg-CoV is the UK’s largest clinical study to...
Nov 26, 2021
Smoking whilst pregnant linked to smaller babies in future pregnancies
Southampton researchers have found that the link between smoking at the start of pregnancy and having a smaller baby may extend to future...
Nov 25, 2021
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