The national Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme has recruited Dr Eleri Adams, a consultant neonatologist at Oxford University Hospitals, as one of the clinicians to steer new workstreams focusing on paediatric and neonatal care. Two other consultants were appointed to lead on reviews for: paediatric critical care; paediatrics orthopaedic (trauma and elective) surgery. The appointments come […]
A meeting involving clinicians, academics and patients has taken place in Oxford to celebrate the successes of the 100,000 Genomes Project and how genomic medicine becomes a routine part of NHS care in future. More information can be found on the OUH website. The meeting, held on 28 February 2019, Rare Diseases Day, was organised by […]
Oxford Brookes’ global reputation for the quality of its teaching has been recognised in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. More information can be found via the Oxford Bookes website. The 2019 rankings found that Oxford Brookes is ranked amongst the “world’s top universities” in 12 subjects. We are rightly proud that one […]
After travelling to Uganda and learning that the country’s 40 million strong population had no access to interventional radiology services, Gregory Makris, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Fellow at OUH felt the scale of the difficulties besetting healthcare providers in such a resource limited environment, and the urgency of introducing these life-saving procedures to those in […]
Oxford Brookes Bioimaging scientists help train African students and researcher in Ghana Wednesday, 23 January 2019 Oxford Brookes Bioimaging scientists are in Accra, Ghana at the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP) helping to run a course on the modern technologies used to investigate the biology of infectious diseases. WACCBIP is […]
Waist-stature ratio can indicate the risk of cardiovascular disease even in healthy men Wednesday, 30 January 2019 Health experts have warned for years that men and women with excess abdominal fat run a greater risk of developing cardiovascular problems. However, individuals with abdominal or central obesity are not the only ones in danger, according to […]
A new consortium of 27 partners coordinated by the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences will tackle the challenge of discovery and characterisation of blood-brain barrier targets and transport mechanisms for brain delivery of therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative and metabolic diseases. The blood-brain barrier is a protective layer between the brain’s blood capillaries and the cells […]
Researchers from Department of Psychiatry (University of Oxford) and McGill University have found that cannabis use among adolescents is found to be associated with increased risk of depression and anxiety in adulthood. Cannabis is the most commonly used recreational drug by teenagers worldwide. In Canada, among youth aged 15 to 19 years, the rate of […]
The Big Data Institute (BDI) have recently announced new research alliances with Novartis and Sensyne Health https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/news/big-data-institute-announces-two-new-research-alliances A five-year collaboration with Novartis to establish a world-leading research alliance that will improve drug development by making it more efficient and more targeted. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics, the partners expect to transform how ultra large and […]
https://www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/news/ps4-5-million-award-for-clinical-research-consortium-to-tackle-the-global-threat-of-epidemic-infectious-diseases The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) has been awarded £4.5 million to accelerate clinical research to prevent illness and deaths from epidemic infectious diseases. ISARIC – whose Global Support Centre is hosted by the University of Oxford – is a world-wide, grass-roots consortium of clinical research networks, working together […]