The Academy of Medical Sciences, the independent body in the UK representing the diversity of medical science, has today announced the election of fifty new Fellows, including six academics from the University of Oxford. The six new Oxford Fellows are: Professor David Bennett FMedSci, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Dave Bennett studies the response of the nervous […]
The University of Oxford has today announced an agreement with the UK-based global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for the further development, large-scale manufacture and potential distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate currently being trialled by the University. © Dr Sean Elias The partnership is to begin immediately with the final terms being agreed in the coming […]
Tucked away in an unassuming annexe at the back of the John Radcliffe Hospital you will find a powerhouse at the centre of training NHS staff on the COVID-19 front line. This is OxSTaR (Oxford Simulation, Teaching and Research), the University of Oxford’s state-of-the-art medical simulation, teaching and research facility. This unit, led by Dr Helen Higham, […]
A consultant haematologist at the Churchill Hospital is co-leading a major programme to collect convalescent plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 to support a national clinical trial. University of Oxford Professor David Roberts, who is also Associate Medical Director, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) will be looking at whether transfusion of antibody-containing plasma from […]
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is reminding pregnant women in Oxfordshire that medical help is still at hand during the COVID-19 pandemic. Like many maternity units, the Trust has made a number of changes recently to how we provide care to women during pregnancy, to keep both patients and staff members safe. This has included […]
Over 300 international researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community studied data from almost 1 million patients. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in combination with azithromycin. The largest analysis to date on the safety of the drug hydroxychloroquine, found there were no worrying […]
A new paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry highlights an urgent need to tackle the harmful impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and potentially the brain and calls for research on these areas to be central to the global response to the pandemic. The paper warns that the COVID-19 pandemic could have a […]
Five projects from the Medical Sciences Division are amongst twenty-one new studies into the novel coronavirus which have been funded by the UK government, announced today. Twenty-one new studies into the novel coronavirus have been funded by the UK government, including the first clinical drug trial in primary care, vaccine and therapy development, and studying […]
Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) has joined the UK Health Data Research Alliance. The alliance has a goal of accelerating the use of health data to improve health and care across the UK. OUH was one of three new members whose membership was announced on 9 April 2020, the others being the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit […]
A dedicated hotline has been set up by healthcare partners to help people with diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Teams at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and neighbouring Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust (OHFT) have worked together to create and man the hotline, which is now live. Designed for patients who need urgent clinical advice, […]