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Increase in non-COVID-19 respiratory infections predicted this winter
9 August 2022
An increase in the number of non-COVID-19 respiratory infections should be expected this winter, say scientists. The warning comes following the results of a new study, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, which found that over 55% of respiratory disease hospitalisations during the pandemic’s peak were caused by non-SARS-CoV-2 infections.
- Bristol academic awarded coveted British Ecological Society prize 2 September 2022 Dr Chris Clements of Bristol’s School of Biological Sciences has received the prestigious Founders’ Prize which commemorates the enthusiasm and vision of the Society’s founders.
- Bristol academics conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences 1 September 2022 Two University of Bristol academics have been conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.
- Married doctors who met at Bristol while studying medicine launch business to remedy health inequality in South Asia 31 August 2022 Doctors Sumitra Kafle and Navdeep Nath who met while studying medicine at the University of Bristol have introduced a business to advance primary care in Nepal.
- Brain activity during sleep differs in young people with genetic risk of psychiatric disorders 31 August 2022 Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep, a study led by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff published in the journal eLife shows.
- Recovery from a hip fracture varies widely among NHS hospitals, study finds 31 August 2022 How well patients recover after a hip fracture varies enormously between NHS hospitals in England and Wales and in some hospitals one in ten patients died within a month of their fracture, a new study has found.
- Dolphins form largest alliance network outside humans, study finds 29 August 2022 Male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol have shown. These cooperative relationships between groups increase male access to a contested resource.
- Student who has watched every University Challenge episode multiple times captains Bristol side 29 August 2022 Chemistry student and top University Challenge fan Tess Richardson will lead Bristol’s team as they kick off Jeremy Paxman’s last series tonight.
- NASA’s Webb detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere 25 August 2022 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system.
- Professor Malcolm Skilbeck, 1932-2022 25 August 2022 Former School of Education colleague Professor Malcolm Skilbeck passed away peacefully, aged 89, at his home near Geelong in Victoria Australia on 17 June. Emeritus Professor Michael Crossley, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, offers a remembrance.
- Experiment on YouTube shows potential to ‘inoculate’ millions of users against misinformation 24 August 2022 Briefly exposing social media users to tricks behind misinformation boosts awareness of dangerous online falsehoods, even amid intense ‘noise’ of the world’s second-most visited website, new research finds. Google is set to deploy an anti-disinformation campaign based on the findings.
