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NHS at 70

In 2004 the MRI’s haemodialysis team developed an innovative approach to allow patients to use haemodialysis at home instead of going into hospital.

In 2013 researchers from Wythenshawe Hospital published a diet that they believed was a real breakthrough in both people losing weight and keeping it off and helping lower the risk of breast cancer.

Thousands of children suffering from rare inherited metabolic diseases worldwide have dramatically better life expectancy and quality of life thanks to research at MFT and The University of Manchester

In 2001, pioneering studies began at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust that made a major contribution to the global effort to control cervical cancer.

In 1953 Jonas Kellgren was appointed as the UK's first Professor of Rheumatology and established Manchester as a world leading centre for rheumatology research.

Did you know the first clinical trial of Halothane, a general anaesthetic, was led by Michael Johnstone at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1956.