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£1.2 million to roll-out dementia care home programme to COVID-hit sector

£1.2 million in government funding will help researchers develop an innovative online programme to improve and personalise care for people with dementia in care homes, which were hard-hit by the COVID-19 crisis.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 7 Oct 2020
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Professor Matthew Hotopf gives evidence to the House of Lords

Professor Matthew Hotopf CBE, Director NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre, Vice Dean of Research at the Institute of Psychiatry Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, gave evidence to the Science and Technology Committee’s The science of COVID-19  inquiry in the House of Lords.

 

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 22 Sep 2020
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Can wearables like Fitbit devices be used to help detect COVID-19?

The COVID-Collab (https://covid-collab.org) research team at King’s College London have launched a free mobile app [Android] [iOS] which will allow scientists to investigate the use of wearable devices and smartphones for digital detection of COVID-19, to understand how it spreads and how the pandemic affects people's mental and physical health.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 24 Jul 2020
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Study estimates impact of COVID-19 pandemic on UK mental health after first month of lockdown

Mental health declined substantially after the first month of COVID-19 lockdown, a survey of UK households published today in The Lancet Psychiatry journal suggests.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 21 Jul 2020
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ACE inhibitors and ARBs not associated with severity of Coronavirus

Researchers have found ACE inhibitors (a type of blood pressure medicine commonly used in patients with high blood pressure or diabetes) and ARBs (used to treat heart failure and high blood pressure) did not increase the severity of COVID-19 disease in patients in two hospitals.

By NIHR Maudsley BRC at 7 Jul 2020
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