EDEN team delivers diabetes training to Gibraltar
The EDEN education team has visited Gibraltar to deliver bespoke diabetes training and updates to over 70 healthcare professionals based on the Rock. These HCPs included healthcare assistants, ambulance staff, qualified nurses, and doctors, consultants and GPs.
Team Novo Nordisk visits Leicester Diabetes Centre
A team of professional cyclists all made up of people with diabetes visited the Leicester Diabetes Centre as part of a nationwide tour to raise awareness of the condition.
Leicester supports Singapore in diabetes fight
Expertise in preventing and treating Type 2 diabetes developed in Leicester will be used in Singapore’s “war on diabetes”.
LDC highlighted as National research exemplar
Two of Leicester Diabetes Centre’s projects have been highlighted as exemplar case studies by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN).
Diabetes risk score translation “a breakthrough in support to the South Asian community”
The translation of a tool to help people find out their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes has been described by a leading diabetes professor as a “breakthrough”
UK’s largest ever investment into ground-breaking health research
University of Leicester, Leicester’s hospitals and Loughborough University receive £11m funding for NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre.
National recognition for Leicester’s prevention work
The Leicester Diabetes Centre has been praised at a prestigious national awards ceremony.
Office workers urged to exercise
A leading Type 2 diabetes expert from Leicester has welcomed new research calling for sedentary office workers to exercise for an at least an hour a day to stave off the risks from modern lifestyles.
Education’s ‘power’ to prevent Type 2 diabetes
People at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes can reduce their chances of getting the condition by more than 80 per cent by fully completing a new education programme, an NIHR-supported study has found.
Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme To Launch in Leicester to Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
Those considered to be at greatest risk of developing Type 2 diabetes across Leicestershire are set to benefit from increased help to avoid the disease.
Physical activity and functional ability increase after bariatric surgery
People who have their stomach size surgically reduced move around more and easier after weight loss surgery, a study has found.
Major diabetes milestone for Leicester researchers
A method for assessing people’s chances of having or developing Type 2 diabetes created by Leicester researchers has reached a major milestone.
Chronic conditions rise in older people
The number of older people in England living with more than one chronic condition could have risen by ten per cent in the last decade putting increasing pressure on the NHS, new research has suggested.
Sleep advocated to prevent diabetes
A good night’s sleep is “important” in preventing and managing Type 2 diabetes, a paper has found.