Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Health and Life Sciences has around 380 members of staff in the Faculty, organised into four Schools: The Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Applied Social Sciences and Leicester School of Pharmacy are located in the Hawthorn Building on the City Campus; The School of Nursing and Midwifery is located on the Charles Frears campus, which is situated some two miles from the City Campus in Leicester. The faculty grouping allows the academic schools to collaborate across the subject boundaries in teaching, consultancy and research. Students in this area have an enquiring mind, good analytical skills, and are concerned about the health and welfare of others.
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Heterogeneous Fenton's-like catalysis for degradation of colchicine coupled with extraction of its biologically active metabolite
(Article)Nowadays, drug pollution; a form of water pollution caused by some pharmaceuticals and their metabolites resulting from consumers, industry and hospitals was reported. Colchicine (CLN) is considered one of the ... -
Pharmacy Travel Health Services in Canada: Experience of Early Adopters
(Article)Since 2007, community pharmacists in Canada have become increasingly involved in delivering Travel Health services, including the recommendation and administration of vaccines. This qualitative scoping survey examines ... -
Personalised warfarin dosing in children post cardiac surgery
(Article)Warfarin dosing is challenging due to a multitude of factors affecting its pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD). A novel personalised dosing algorithm predicated on a warfarin PK/PD model and incorporating ... -
Meritocracy
(Book chapter)Meritocracy is the idea that success is based upon the merit and effort of an individual, rather than any other social factors such as class, race or gender. Success is therefore attributed to effort and ability whereas ... -
Critical approaches to Race
(Book chapter)‘Race’ may be understood as an essential biological variable, yet the historical roots of race show that it is based on eighteenth-century religious ideas that proved useful in justifying colonialism. The scientific basis ... -
Developing an Understanding of Race Talk
(Article)The aim of this paper is to give an outline of the discursive psychological literature focussing on prejudice and race talk and to show how recent findings suggest a development in this understanding. The paper begins with ... -
The psychological and social impact of female genital mutilation: A holistic conceptual framework
(Article)Objectives: The current research aimed to gain an understanding of women’s experiences of FGM to develop an evidence based holistic conceptual framework for professionals dealing with the impact of FGM and responses required ... -
Feminism in Cyprus: Women’s Agency, Gender and Peace in the Shadow of Nationalism
(Article)This article explores the ways through which feminist and women’s agency is articulated in the Cypriot context through the paradigms of nationalism, peace and conflict. It does so to broaden our understanding of gendered ... -
National Maternity and Perinatal Audit: Clinical report 2019. Based on births in NHS maternity services between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017
(Other)In the wake of national maternity and neonatal reviews and other improvement initiatives, changes are being implemented in the delivery of care to mothers and their babies in England, Scotland and Wales. Use of electronic ... -
Discursive Psychological Approaches to Intergroup Communication
(Book chapter)The recent emergence of discursive psychological approaches has challenged the dominance of cognitive and structural models of language that theorize it as an abstract and coherent system of meanings. Epistemologically ... -
HIV-1 Activates T Cell Signaling Independently of Antigen to Drive Viral Spread
(Article)HIV-1 spreads between CD4 T cells most efficiently through virus-induced cell-cell contacts. To test whether this process potentiates viral spread by activating signaling pathways, we developed an approach to analyze the ... -
"You Keep Yourself Strong": A Discourse Analysis of African Women Asylum Seekers' Talk about Emotions
(Article)The current study investigates how asylum-seeking African women use talk about emotion to construct empowered roles for themselves. A discourse analysis was conducted on interviews with African asylum-seeking women. ... -
Maternity admissions to intensive care in England, Wales and Scotland in 2015/16: A report from the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit.
(Other)The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) is a national audit of the NHS maternity services across England, Scotland and Wales, commissioned in July 2016 by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on ... -
Technical Report: linking the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit Data Set to the National Neonatal Research Database for 2015/16
(Technical Report)The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) is a national audit of the NHS maternity services across England, Scotland and Wales, commissioned in July 2016 by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on ... -
The HSV-1 Latency-Associated Transcript Functions to Repress Latent Phase Lytic Gene Expression and Suppress Virus Reactivation from Latently Infected Neurons
(Article)Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) establishes life-long latent infection within sensory neurons, during which viral lytic gene expression is silenced. The only highly expressed viral gene product during latent infection is ... -
Effects of social and outcome expectancies on hazardous drinking among Chinese university students: The mediating role of drinking motivations
(Article)Background and Objectives: Based on the theory of reasoned action, the present study investigated the relative effects of drinking outcome expectancies and parental norms, as well as the mediating effect of drinking ... -
Working through the change: Supportive measures
(Article)All women will experience the menopause phase of their life; many of these will be working women. Some women may experience challenges during this time that may be exacerbated in the work environment. This article outlines ... -
Using repeated visual exposure, rewards and modelling in a mobile application to increase vegetable acceptance in children
(Article)Children are not consuming the recommended amounts of fruit and vegetables. Repeated visual exposure, modelling, and rewards have been shown to be effective at increasing vegetable acceptance in young children. The aim of ... -
Instrument de evaluare a riscurilor si nevoilor in unitatile penitenciare din Romania: Raport de validare
(Technical Report)The project "Contribution to the implementation of criminal legislation in Romania" was elaborated between September 2012 and May 2013. The partners involved in carrying out the project were the initiator of the project ... -
The Differential DNA Hypermethylation Patterns of microRNA-137 and microRNA-342 Locus in Early Colorectal Lesions and Tumours.
(Article)Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, representing 13% of all cancers. The role of epigenetics in cancer diagnosis and prognosis is well established. MicroRNAs in particular influence ...
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