Heart failure patients have praised an NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre-supported project that allows them to monitor their condition and communicate with researchers through tablet computers. A survey of users reported they found the system – through which they monitored their blood ... READ MORE
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Oxford Ebola vaccine study moves to next phase
Oxford University doctors and scientists are performing the second phase of clinical studies of an experimental Ebola vaccine regimen, with part of the study supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. The study is part of the EBOVAC2 project, a collaborative programme involving the ... READ MORE
Best ever performance for speed of clinical trials
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) has for the first time met in full a key measure for how quickly clinical trials start. All trials analysed by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) recruited the first patient within 70 days for the 12 months to this March. This marks a ... READ MORE
New hope to tackle third biggest killer disease
A POTENTIAL new way to treat one of the world’s most common lung diseases is to be investigated after a study found a link between sufferers’ iron levels and worse health outcomes. Researchers are to give iron to people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – commonly caused by ... READ MORE
Sleep deprivation could reduce intrusive memories of trauma
A good night’s sleep has long been recommended to those who have experienced a traumatic event but an Oxford University-led study provides preliminary experimental work suggesting it could actually be the wrong thing to do. Sleep deprivation might prevent people from consolidating memories of ... READ MORE
New TB test to get sufferers on right drugs sooner
Tuberculosis sufferers will be able get drug treatment sooner thanks to a new whole genome sequencing technique to determine for the first time which drugs to give sufferers, researchers in Oxford have reported. University of Oxford researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital have developed a ... READ MORE
BRC supports Oxford Ebola summit
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is among organisations supporting a conference in the city next month about the global response to Ebola. Researchers, Government leaders and industry professionals who led the worldwide fight against Ebola are to come together in Oxford for the first ... READ MORE
Immune system talk draws crowds
More than 100 people attended the latest BRC talk about the human immune system and how it can help and attack the body. The University of Oxford’s Professor Paul Bowness spoke on “Autoimmunity – when our immune system turns on our bodies” at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Headington, on ... READ MORE
BRC supports herpes virus cancer trial
THE NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has supported research that found a genetically engineered herpes virus can halt the progression of skin cancer. Patients from Oxford’s Churchill Hospital took part in the landmark clinical trial, which comprised 64 worldwide centres. It found the ... READ MORE
Nomination for BRC-backed blood project
A project supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has been nominated for a leading patient safety award. The Real-Time Blood Transfusion Data and Decision Support project has been nominated in the Technology and IT to Improve Patient Safety category for the Patient Safety Awards ... READ MORE
NIHR training lead honoured
The University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences department lead for NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow training, Dr Daniel Lasserson, was honoured as 'Outstanding Supervisor in Medical Sciences' at the Oxford University Student's Union Teaching Awards at the Weston ... READ MORE
I’ll have a Pint of Science!
Pubgoers learned about the latest scientific developments at a Pint of Science event sponsored by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). The BRC supported the Pint of Science event at Oxford’s Wig and Pen on Tuesday May 19. Pint of Science brings together scientists to discuss their ... READ MORE
Event tells shoppers about research
SHOPPERS learned about medical research with an event at Templars Square Shopping Centre, Cowley, Oxford to mark International Clinical Trials Day. They spoke to patients, their relatives and NHS staff about how they can get involved in ground-breaking research for conditions like dementia and ... READ MORE
Audit success for BRC
In April 2015 the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) operations team successfully participated in an external Audit by ACS Registrars Ltd (a UKAS Accredited Certification Body) resulting in the re-certification of the Internationally recognised business management system ISO 9001 ... READ MORE
Project brings Whole Genome Sequencing into the clinic
More than 10 years after the completion of the Human Genome Project doctors are a step closer to using whole genome sequencing to diagnose and treat patients with genetic diseases. This follows a study by researchers from the University of Oxford and the DNA sequencing company Illumina. Results ... READ MORE
Oxford shoppers to learn about medical research
SHOPPERS will be able to learn about clinical research with an event at Templars Square Shopping Centre, Cowley, Oxford on Wednesday May 20. They will be able to ask NHS staff about how they can get involved in ground-breaking research for conditions like dementia and diabetes at an information ... READ MORE
Campaign to raise awareness of research
The OK to ask campaign for this year has officially launched with the aim of encouraging more patients or carers to ask about research opportunities that could be available to them or their loved ones. Clinical research is thriving in the NHS with more than 600,000 patients taking part in ... READ MORE
Time taken to begin research among England’s best
OXFORD University Hospitals NHS Trust has been ranked among England’s best for the time taken to begin clinical trials involving new medicines and treatments. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) is now ranked second out of the most research-active NHS Trusts for a key measure of how ... READ MORE
Volunteers sought for testosterone diabetes study
Men with Type 2 diabetes are needed for a study looking at a new treatment to correct low testosterone levels. Volunteers aged 18-60 would receive injections of a hormone which researchers from the Churchill Hospital in Oxford have found can boost the body’s production of ... READ MORE
First Health Economics Symposium for BRC
HOW cutting edge medical research can save the NHS money was the subject of the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre’s (BRC) first ever Health Economics Symposium. Oxford Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Oxford researchers met at St Catherine’s College, Oxford to evaluate how BRC-funded ... READ MORE
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