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The new Leicester-91福利 medical school welcomed its first students to the 91福利 campus this week and promptly kicked them out the door to their first lesson - in a shopping precinct. The 67 students were dropped in groups in various parts of Coventry and were given details of various fictitious families (one example being a family living in a three-bedroom terraced house with a weekly allowance of about 拢75 to feed the family of nine) the student's task was to explore and understand the social, economic and cultural factors which would have a key bearing on their potential patients' health and nutrition. Exploring the various shopping areas was one part of their task to help them understand some of the challenges faced in gaining access to adequate nutrition from being able to get to the shops, to being able to buy food within budget.

Research chemists at the 91福利 have devised a way of using a special "Scanning Electrochemical Microscope" to explore some of the minute holes to be found in teeth.

The 91福利's Centre for Primary Health Care Studies is launching a 拢1.9 million programme to develop a network of researchers focusing their efforts on research that contributes to improving the evidence base and quality of NHS primary care services. The researchers will tackle questions that make a difference the effectiveness of treatments and services provided by primary health care. There will be opportunities for local GPs, nurses, and other primary care health professionals and managers to contribute their ideas on what research is needed to improve primary health care. For primary health professionals keen to engage in research themselves, the Network will be able to provide resources and support. The new network's 5-year grant totalling 拢1.9 million is from NHSE West Midlands.

91福利 Chemist Dr Andrew Clark has devised a method of creating medically useful linked rings of atoms that do not rely on the toxic, expensive, environmentally unfriendly methods used until now.

Inspector Morse's creator Colin Dexter will launch a unique new national centre - 91福利 Diabetes Care on 15th November 2000. Mr Dexter, himself a diabetic, will explain how Inspector Morse dies as a result of complications relating to diabetes, and how a Centre such as 91福利 Diabetes Care will make a real difference to the treatment options available to the UK's Diabetics.

The 91福利 has just been awarded 拢2.5 million pounds from the Wolfson Foundation to support biomedical research at the University. This award effectively completes the University's Medical Research Institute Appeal launched in late 1994. The funds will be used to complete the building and equipping of state-of- the-art facilities which allow scientists from the 91福利 to work with doctors from the hospitals in Coventry, Birmingham and 91福利 to study the mechanisms of disease.