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Damage to brain’s ‘control centre’ behind long-lasting COVID-19 symptoms, MRI scans show

8 October 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging

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Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe COVID-19 infection, a study has suggested. Using ultra-high-resolution scanners that can see the living brain in fine detail, researchers from the Universities of Cambridge ... READ MORE

Patient story – Kathryn Hedigan, EXPLAIN study

23 July 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging

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Kathryn Hedigan took part in the EXPLAIN study, which used hyperpolarised xenon MRI scans to investigate possible lung damage in long COVID patients who had not been hospitalised with COVID-19 but who continued to experience breathlessness. Kathryn, aged 66, lives near Burford in West ... READ MORE

New study reveals long-term mental health risks after COVID-19

21 March 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Musculoskeletal

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A new study has shed light on the long-term mental health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the growing evidence of the protective effect of vaccination on reducing the risk. The research, supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), was conducted in a population-based ... READ MORE

COVID jab linked to lower risk of COVID-19-related clot and heart complications

12 March 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Musculoskeletal, Translational Data Science

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The risk of cardiac and clot-related complications following COVID-19 is substantially reduced in people who receive the COVID-19 vaccination, compared with unvaccinated individuals, according to new research. The observational study, which was supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research ... READ MORE

Race Inclusion talk explores improving diversity and inclusion in clinical trials

14 February 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Other News

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The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has sponsored a talk looking at how inclusion and diversity can be supported in clinical trials. The talk by Professor Mahendra Patel was organised a talk by Oxford University Hospitals BAME staff network as part of Race Inclusion ... READ MORE

Researchers develop easy-to-deploy federated learning system that safeguards patient data

24 January 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Digital Health from Hospital to Home, Translational Data Science

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Researchers in Oxford have developed a new, easy-to-use technique for hospitals to contribute to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) models, without patient data leaving the hospital’s premises. The technique, which builds on recent advances in decentralised machine learning, uses ... READ MORE

COVID-19 vaccines found effective in reducing long COVID symptoms

12 January 2024 · Listed under COVID-19, Musculoskeletal

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A research team at the University of Oxford has found that vaccination against COVID-19 consistently reduced the risk of long COVID symptoms. While vaccines have proved effective in preventing severe COVID-19, their ability to prevent long-term symptoms has not yet been fully ... READ MORE

New insight into immune-pathology in COVID-19 lungs

9 November 2023 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory Medicine

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A study by Oxford researchers has provided new insights into how immune cells interact in the lungs of patients with severe COVID-19.  In a damaged lung with a massive cell infiltrate, as seen with severe COVID-19 infection, it can be difficult to determine which cells are involved in ... READ MORE

Longer-term organ abnormalities confirmed in some post-hospitalised COVID patients

23 September 2023 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging

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A study looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that nearly a third of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 displayed abnormalities in multiple organs five months after being discharged. Some of these abnormalities have been shown through previous work to be evidence of ... READ MORE

Research profile: “You see the impact of your research in clinical care. It’s part of the same circle”

15 September 2023 · Listed under COVID-19, Life-saving Vaccines

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Lizzie Stafford, a Clinical Research Nurse Manager in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, has been involved in number of Oxford BRC-supported research studies. The BRC is funding the second year of her NIHR postgraduate clinical research programme. “I’ve been involved in some ground-breaking ... READ MORE

Blood clots during COVID-19 may cause ongoing cognitive problems

1 September 2023 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging, Respiratory Medicine

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High levels of two proteins at the time of COVID-19 have been found in patients who later experienced cognitive problems, including ‘brain fog'. The findings give a major clue as to one cause of their symptoms: blood clots. Researchers from the University of Oxford looked at blood tests from ... READ MORE

Landmark antibody study to test immune responses against COVID-19

14 April 2023 · Listed under COVID-19, Life-saving Vaccines

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Thousands of immunosuppressed people, including patients at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH), have the chance to take part in a landmark new study investigating which people are still at the greatest risk of COVID-19 infection after vaccination. Researchers hope the STRAVINSKY study’s findings ... READ MORE

New computational technique reveals changes to lung function after COVID-19 infection

5 October 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Respiratory Medicine

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A study led by Oxford researchers has found that prior COVID-19 infection is associated with more uneven inflation of the lungs during normal breathing. There was also an association between hospitalisation with COVID-19 and smaller lung volumes, and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) was ... READ MORE

Study develops radiotranscriptomic AI analysis to enable virtual heart biopsies

5 September 2022 · Listed under Cardiovascular Medicine, COVID-19, Imaging

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Oxford University researchers have found a new way of directly quantifying vascular inflammation in COVID-19 patients, in a study that could pave the way to more efficient trials of new treatments and identify patients who might be at risk of long-term complications.  The study, which was ... READ MORE

Higher risk of blood clots in COVID-19 outpatients, largely reduced after vaccination

22 August 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Gene and Cell Therapy, Translational Data Science

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Researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have studied the link between people diagnosed with COVID-19 as outpatients and the short-term risk of developing blood clots, and the clinical and genetic risk factors that predispose them to developing post–COVID-19 ... READ MORE

COVID-19 vaccine protects people of all body weights from hospitalisation and death

1 July 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle

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Two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are effective against severe disease for people who are underweight, overweight, or who have obesity, new research by University of Oxford researchers has found. Obesity was flagged as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 early in the global pandemic. The UK’s ... READ MORE

Study highlights ongoing COVID-19 risk in some cancer patients despite vaccination

24 May 2022 · Listed under Cancer, COVID-19

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A study has found that while COVID-19 vaccination is effective in most cancer patients, the level of protection against COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation and death offered by the vaccine is less than in the general population and vaccine effectiveness wanes more quickly. The study, published in ... READ MORE

OUH agrees long COVID research collaboration with Polarean

11 May 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Imaging, Respiratory Medicine

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Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) and the medical imaging technology company, Polarean Imaging plc, have entered into a research collaboration to study the long-term effects of COVID-19 in patients who are still experiencing breathlessness months after infection.  Polarean produce an ... READ MORE

Study finds no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID vaccination

17 March 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Musculoskeletal, Preventive Neurology

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A study of more than eight million people has found no increased risk of rare neurological events after COVID -19 vaccination. However, the researchers did find a higher risk of Bell’s palsy (facial weakness), encephalomyelitis (inflammation of the brain and spinal cord) and Guillain-Barré ... READ MORE

Blog: Developing a process to monitor populations at increased risk from coronavirus

11 March 2022 · Listed under COVID-19, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics

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Emma Pritchard is a Medical Statistician in the Modernising Medical Microbiology team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. She works in the Oxford BRC’s Antimicrobial Resistance and Modernising Microbiology Theme. In this blog, Emma explains how she used the ongoing Office for National ... READ MORE

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