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 more tailored strategy is required. Daily aspirin reduces blood clots … Read more
Pregnant women invited to take part in pioneering diabetes prevention research
Pregnant women are being invited by the University of Oxford and the NHS to take part in the world’s first clinical trial to prevent type 1 diabetes in babies and infants. Researchers supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre want to find out if giving small amounts of insulin to babies on the trial … Read more
Ultrasound and nanomedicine offer new hope for improving effects of cancer drugs
In a breakthrough that allows the more precise targeting of drugs at cancers, a University of Oxford team has used ultrasound and lipid drug carriers to remotely trigger and enhance the delivery of a cancer drug in humans for the first time. The study was conducted by researchers from the University of Oxford and Oxford University … Read more
Oxford Impact 2018 workshop
Last month, the NIHR Oxford BRC and the UK Cochrane Collaboration organised the Oxford Impact 2018 workshop, which brought together people from a wide range of fields to “think differently about research impact”. The event sought to tackle one of the central challenges of what has become known as the ‘impact agenda’ in healthcare research: … Read more
More awareness needed about stroke risk after mini-stroke, study finds
A leading Oxford stroke specialist says more needs to be done to raise of awareness of the need to take rapid action after a mini-stroke in order to reduce the number of major strokes. The study of more than 2,200 patients across Oxfordshire was led by Prof Peter Rothwell (right), of the Nuffield Department of … Read more
BRC visited by senior DHSC figure
The Department of Health and Social Care’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, visited Oxford on Monday 2nd July to find out about the world-leading research taking place there and to meet young medical researchers starting out on their career. After a meeting at the John Radcliffe Hospital with senior leaders of Oxford University Hospitals … Read more
Study launched to investigate link between sleep problems and Parkinson’s
Researchers in the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre have launched a new five-year study looking at the links between a condition known as Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) and Parkinson’s. Supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, the study seeks to improve the remote diagnosis and monitoring of sleep problems at home. Sleep … Read more
Oxford gets government funding to expand antimicrobial resistance work
Researchers in Oxford have been awarded £1.8m in capital funding from the Department of Health and Social Care to expand their work to tackle the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including using whole genome sequencing to diagnose AMR. The funding was awarded to the NIHR (National Institute of Health Research) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre … Read more
All newborns with Down’s syndrome to get leukaemia test under new guidelines
New national guidelines are recommending that all babies born with Down’s syndrome should have a new genetic test to detect signs of a potentially fatal preleukaemic condition, following research by a University of Oxford group led by NIHR Oxford BRC-supported investigators. The new British Society for Haematology (BSH) guidelines, published in the British Journal of … Read more
First human test of robotic eye surgery a success
The first trial of robot-assisted eye surgery in patients has shown the technique to be both safe and effective. Researchers from the University of Oxford, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) have completed the first successful trial of remotely controlled robot-assisted retinal surgery. The findings were published … Read more
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