Stories from 2020
Vitamin D deficiency increased risk of COVID in healthcare workers
Healthcare workers who self-isolated after developing COVID-19 symptoms were more likely to have vitamin D deficiency.
Patients to benefit from new artificial intelligence health solution guidelines
Patients could benefit from faster and more effective artificial intelligence techniques to diagnose and treat disease.
Study shows COVID-19 exposure and viral carriage in health care workers
2.4% of asymptomatic Birmingham health care workers were SARS-CoV-2 virus carriers and over a third became unwell with COVID-19 symptoms.
Advanced Therapy Treatment Centre awarded £9.5m further investment
Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres (ATTC) awarded a total of £9.5 million to fund an additional 12 months of the programme.
HDR-UK helps explain worse COVID-19 outcomes in certain ethnic groups
PIONEER Hub allows better inderstanding of links between ethnicity, illness severity and outcomes for hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
BHP expert appointed to new Regulatory Horizon Council
UHB Professor Alastair Denniston has been appointed to the UK government’s new Regulatory Horizon Council.