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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.

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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.

Health care worker

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.

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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.

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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.

Professor Alastair Denniston

BHP expert appointed to new Regulatory Horizon Council

UHB Professor Alastair Denniston has been appointed to the UK government’s new Regulatory Horizon Council.