In her latest blog Professor Anne Barton, Director of Manchester BRC, shares what we are doing to advance discoveries that improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people.
For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Sathveeka Kasthurisamy Soundararajan outlines how their project is focused on reducing paediatric hearing inequalities within different ethnicities, with a particular focus on South Asian communities, as part of the Hearing Health theme.
In her latest blog Professor Anne Barton, Director of Manchester BRC, discusses our commitment to delivering on Research Inclusion and examples of this across our 4 Clusters.
A ground-breaking genetic test that could prevent critically ill newborn babies going deaf if treated with gentamicin, a commonly used antibiotic, is being trialled across 14 NHS neonatal (specialist newborn) units across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
For our PhDs in Focus blog series, Melanie Lough outlines how their Manchester BRC PhD project aims to determine the value of the highest frequency range of human hearing for predicting hearing aid fitting outcomes, as part of our Hearing Health theme.
Senior Research Fellow, Tunde Oremulé shares how outstanding teamwork has accelerated research aimed to widen access to specialist ear healthcare and improve patients' experiences.
The NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is to co-lead a data initiative to improve care for people with hearing loss, which will be run in partnership with the NIHR Manchester and Nottingham BRCs.
A more holistic definition of hearing loss by The University of Manchester and University of Nottingham researchers has revealed that 18 million people are affected, 6 million higher than previously reported using a definition from the 1980s.