Keeping grief hidden can be a survival strategy after suffering a bereavement. However new research shows that the social disconnection caused by concealing feelings of loss can increase psychological distress. After bereavement people can feel afraid of opening up about their grief to others. ... READ MORE
BRC Technology Co-theme Lead appointed as NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme Director
Professor Andrew Farmer, the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Co-theme Lead for Technology and Digital Health and an experienced general practitioner, begins a new role with the NIHR on 1 June 2020 as Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme Director. He will take over from Professor Hywel ... READ MORE
BRC Senior Research Fellows take part in masterclass on ‘leading change’
The Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Senior Research Fellows have taken part in a leadership masterclass led by Professor Sue Dopson, Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Deputy Dean of the Saïd Business School. The aim of the BRC’s Senior Research Fellowships is to support ... READ MORE
Managing clinical trials in a pandemic: interview with Prof Duncan Richards
Professor Duncan Richards, who is Director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU) as well as the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s Musculoskeletal Co-theme Lead, is at the forefront of Oxford’s strategy on clinical trials for COVID-19. In this interview with the Nuffield ... READ MORE
Oxford-based citizen science project reaches three million classifications in fight against antibiotic resistance
The Bash the Bug citizen science project has achieved three million classifications, after seeing a rapid increase in participation over the last two months. Hosted on the Zooniverse platform, Bash the Bug has over 20,000 volunteers worldwide helping researchers to understand and predict which ... READ MORE
Childhood obesity increases the risk of fracture new study finds
Overweight or obese pre-school children have a higher risk of bone fractures during childhood than those of normal range weight according to a new study published in the Journal of Bone & Mineral Research and supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. The increasing prevalence ... READ MORE
Oxford-led research describes the safety profile and potential harms of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
Over 300 researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) international community studied data from almost 1 million patients who have previously taken hydroxychloroquine. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in ... READ MORE
Researchers identify a new blood-based test to help predict Parkinson’s disease
Research carried out in Oxford has led to the development of a new way to test for Parkinson’s disease before the main symptoms occur. This could allow clinicians to identify patients who would benefit from precision therapies that are currently at clinical trial stage. Parkinson’s disease is the ... READ MORE
Molecular Diagnostics theme hosts cancer genomics and immunology seminar
The Molecular Diagnostics theme hosted a very successful seminar, ‘Advanced personalised therapies in gynaecological cancers’, at St Hugh’s College in February 2020. The meeting covered the genomics and immunology of cancer along with the emerging topic of advanced therapeutic medicinal products ... READ MORE
All-singing all-dancing research at the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival
Oxford BRC-supported researchers have been sharing stories from their work through music and dance at IF Oxford, the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. As part of the festival’s programme of over 100 events, the Oxford BRC supported a dance performance for primary school children and their ... READ MORE
Achieving Type 2 diabetes treatment targets would improve health and reduce healthcare costs
Improvements in health and reductions in healthcare costs could be achieved if blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol treatment targets were met. Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, assessed the long-term impact of achieving treatment ... READ MORE
Oxford Blood Group: Exchange Newsletter Issue 3 vol 1 / June 2019
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Summary of the Crohn’s & Colitis Open Evening
On Thursday 7th February 2019, over 170 members of the public affected by Crohn’s Disease or Ulcerative Colitis attended a ‘Crohn’s and Colitis Open Evening’ at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Below is a PDF summary of the event plus a slideshow with slides from the Powerpoint presentation ... READ MORE
Genetic changes associated with physical activity emerge thanks to machine learning pioneers
Time spent sitting, sleeping and moving is determined in part by our genes, University of Oxford researchers have shown. In one of the most detailed projects of its kind, the scientists studied the activity of 91,105 UK Biobank participants who had previously worn an activity monitor on ... READ MORE
Oxford Blood Group: Exchange Newsletter Issue 1 vol 2 / Nov 2018
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One dose of aspirin doesn’t fit all
About one billion people worldwide take regular aspirin, usually to prevent heart attacks or strokes. Writing in The Lancet, researchers have shown that ‘one-dose-fits-all’ use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks, stroke or cancer, is ineffective or harmful in the majority of people, and that a ... READ MORE
#OxfordImpact2018
Post by Prof Trish Greenhalgh, NIHR Oxford BRC Theme Lead for Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation The most memorable sentence from this one-day workshop held at Jesus College, Oxford, on 21 June 2018 was from keynote speaker Mark Taylor. Reflecting on his experience as a patient with ... READ MORE
Public invited to help tackle antibiotic resistance
An online project has been launched to study antibiotic resistance in Tuberculosis (TB) with the help of the public. The project website, bashthebug.net, shows volunteers images of a series of small, circular wells, each containing M.tuberculosis (the bug that causes TB) and a different dose of ... READ MORE
Five more years of transforming care through research
An exciting new chapter in NHS medical research in Oxford begins today (April 1) with the £113.7m renewal of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The BRC is a partnership between Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford to fund medical research that ... READ MORE
England world leaders in the use of Whole Genome Sequencing to diagnose TB
In a world-first, Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) is now being used to identify different strains of tuberculosis, announced Public Health England today. This is the first time that WGS has been used as a diagnostic solution for managing a disease on this scale anywhere in the world. This builds on ... READ MORE
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