A NEW brain stimulation therapy could help supress tremors in people with Parkinson’s disease, according to new research. The non-invasive technique has been pioneered by researchers supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, a collaboration ... READ MORE
New understanding of craniosynostosis will help families and treatment centres
RESEARCHERS in Oxford have discovered two new genetic causes of craniosynostosis - a rare bone condition that can inhibit brain growth in children. The work will give affected families much greater understanding of the condition and inform patient treatment plans. Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield ... READ MORE
Volunteers needed to investigate how exercise may improve the ageing brain
Research studies in Oxford are investigating how physical and mental exercise could prevent brain decline in older people. The Cognitive Health in Ageing project (CHA) is recruiting healthy volunteers aged 60 or over to provide valuable insights into how the brain can adapt and change during ... READ MORE
Diabetes screening could happen at home
Research led by the University of Oxford has found that people may be able to test themselves for diabetes in the comfort of their own home, using a novel electronic screening device. The device was trialled in both healthy volunteers and people with diabetes, both in the home and in the ... READ MORE
Cannabis pain relief is variable
The pain relief offered by cannabis varies greatly between individuals, a brain imaging study supported by Oxford Biomedical Research Centre suggests. The researchers found that an oral tablet of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, tended to make the experience of pain more bearable, ... READ MORE
Remodelling the Brain: an insight into research that could aid stroke recovery
Our brains adapt whenever we learn a new skill, such as juggling and they also adapt after damage such as stroke. In this Oxford Biomedical Research Centre public talk, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Heidi Johansen-Berg shows how brain imaging allows us to watch the brain remodel, reorganise ... READ MORE
Royal visit to Oxford’s Churchill Hospital
The Duke of York visited the Churchill Hospital in Oxford today to mark the opening of the new building. The building, that includes an integrated Cancer and Haematology Centre, provides a base for many NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre projects. Chairman of Oxford University Hospitals ... READ MORE
Video encourages patients to participate in diabetes trial
A new video from the Diabetes Trials Unit (DTU) at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) is being launched today, on World Diabetes Day. Produced with local film company Nice Tree Films and funding from the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Oxford, the video ... READ MORE
Unique imaging centre opens for research in emergency care
A new £13m research centre aims to improve the early treatment of heart attack and strokes by understanding more about what is happening in the patient’s heart or brain tissue at the time of the attack. The University of Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre (AVIC) at the John Radcliffe Hospital ... READ MORE
New appointment to the National Research Ethics Advisors Panel for NRES (National Research Ethics Service)
Dr Mark Sheehan has been appointed to the National Research Ethics Advisors Panel. The National Research Ethics Service (NRES) was originally asked by the four UK Health Departments, through the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority (UKECA) to establish a central advisory panel. The objective of ... READ MORE
Genetic cause of insulin sensitivity offers diabetes clues
The first single gene cause of increased sensitivity to the hormone insulin has been discovered by a team of Oxford University researchers. The opposite condition – insulin resistance – is a common feature of type 2 diabetes, so finding this cause of insulin sensitivity could offer new ... READ MORE
High speed bench-top sequencing set to change the face of infection control
A study published today in BMJ Open, by researchers from Oxford, Leeds, Brighton and the Health Protection Agency, highlights the use of new bench-top DNA sequencers to quickly and cheaply unravel the entire genetic codes of bacteria causing life-threatening infections. This technology has the ... READ MORE
NHS set to benefit from UK-led technologies
Video games, pioneering gene therapies and new medical devices are set to transform treatments on the NHS, with support from the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust. The experimental technologies are being developed through the Health Innovation Challenge Fund, which was set up in 2009 to ... READ MORE
Gene therapy trial begins for blindness caused by choroideraemia
Professor Robert MacLaren from the University of Oxford and Professor Miguel Seabra from Imperial College London are undertaking a clinical trial using gene therapy to treat a disease that causes blindness known as choroideraemia. This condition is currently incurable and affects thousands of people ... READ MORE
Trial to investigate new drug combination in lung cancer
Cancer Research UK’s Drug Development Office has opened the first trial of a new drug combination in patients with advanced solid tumours and in a subset of patients who have non-small cell lung cancer. This trial will combine two compounds that aim to starve the tumours while simultaneously ... READ MORE
Oxford researchers elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences
Two medical researchers from the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Oxford have been elected as Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Professors Tipu Aziz and Rury Holman are among the 46 new Fellows announced by the Academy for their outstanding contributions to ... READ MORE
First electronic retina implanted in the UK
Surgeons in Oxford are the first in the UK to successfully implant an electronic retina into the back of an eye. On 22 March 2012, Chris James became the first patient in the UK to receive this ground-breaking surgery as part of a clinical trial being carried out at John Radcliffe Hospital and ... READ MORE
Professor Russell Foster wins Social Innovator award
Russell Foster (left), Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the Social Innovator prize, by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), for his work to revolutionise our understanding of ... READ MORE
Can daily aspirin help prevent and treat cancer?
A collection of three papers (two published in The Lancet and one in The Lancet Oncology) add to the growing evidence base suggesting that daily aspirin can be used to help prevent and possibly treat cancer. All three papers are by Professor Peter Rothwell, University of Oxford and John Radcliffe ... READ MORE
Hundreds get hands-on at the Churchill
Hundreds of visitors found themselves getting hands-on at the third research open day at the Churchill Hospital on 14th March. As part of the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s ongoing commitment to involve and engage the public in the research carried out in Oxford hospitals, the open day was ... READ MORE
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