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As nurses across the UK prepare to go on strike, Holly Blake, Professor of Behavioural Medicine explains how lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic could improve the lives of nurses.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´â€™s Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam has been recognised for the critical communications role he played during the Covid-19 pandemic with a prestigious award by the Royal Society.

A major clinical trial, led by experts at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ working in partnership with several Universities and NHS hospitals, has found that by interrupting the treatment of vulnerable people on long-term immune supressing medicines for two weeks after a COVID-19 booster vaccination, their antibody response to the jab is doubled.

The findings of a major study exploring COVID-19’s impact on the resilience of UK companies will be revealed to policymakers, business leaders and entrepreneurs later this week.

A new strategic partnership between The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ and the East Midlands Chamber is set to cement links between academics and businesses to support the post-Covid recovery of the region’s economy and the levelling up agenda.

A new study, involving researchers from the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´, is recruiting more than 35,000 immunocompromised people to determine their immune response to the Covid-19 vaccination and future risk of infection, hospitalisation and survival over six months.

The severity of Covid-19 infection can be difficult to assess in people from different ethnic groups, due to inaccurate readings from a device that measures the level of oxygen in the blood of patients.

The research, published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, found that greater psychological distress during the early phase of the pandemic was significantly associated with participants later reporting SARS-CoV-2 infection, a greater number of symptoms and also more severe symptoms.

New research is developing a new formulation of a common metabolic inhibitor (niclosamide) that could turn it into a promising prophylactic/preventative nasal spray and early treatment throat spray for Covid-19.

A new study has calculated the long-term economic impact of Covid-19 on city centres and found that as the shift towards working from home moves businesses to suburban areas, city centres stand to lose £3 billion in 2022.