Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – April 2025 Posted: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 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. Continue reading full article: Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – April 2025
PhDs in Focus: Ethnicity and paediatric hearing health inequality in England Posted: Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Author: Sathveeka Kasthurisamy Soundararajan 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. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: Ethnicity and paediatric hearing health inequality in England
Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – February 2025 Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2025 Author: Professor Anne Barton 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. Continue reading full article: Embed, Build, Accelerate – Manchester BRC Director’s blog – February 2025
Genetic test developed by Manchester researchers to prevent newborn babies going deaf, to be trialled across the UK Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2024 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. Continue reading full article: Genetic test developed by Manchester researchers to prevent newborn babies going deaf, to be trialled across the UK
PhDs in Focus: The predictive value of extended high-frequency hearing Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2024 Author: Melanie Lough 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. Continue reading full article: PhDs in Focus: The predictive value of extended high-frequency hearing
Planned for a marathon, but it turned into a sprint – A blog by Tunde Oremulé, ENT Registrar Posted: Friday, September 13, 2024 Senior Research Fellow, Tunde Oremulé shares how outstanding teamwork has accelerated research aimed to widen access to specialist ear healthcare and improve patients' experiences. Continue reading full article: Planned for a marathon, but it turned into a sprint – A blog by Tunde Oremulé, ENT Registrar
Manchester, Nottingham and UCLH BRCs to co-lead hearing health data initiative Posted: Friday, August 9, 2024 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. Continue reading full article: Manchester, Nottingham and UCLH BRCs to co-lead hearing health data initiative
New analysis reveals 18 million people have hearing loss Posted: Friday, July 19, 2024 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. Continue reading full article: New analysis reveals 18 million people have hearing loss