Patients, carers, professionals and the public working together in the Thames Valley and Milton Keynes. Edition 12 – 4th December 2017
Celsion Corporation has launched a clinical trial, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), to study the effectiveness of combining cancer drug ThermoDox with focused ultrasound to treat a range of tumours, including liver cancer. For the full story on Oxford Biomedical Research Centre website
Oxford researchers have attended two events in Oxford to let pregnant women know how to have a healthy pregnancy and to ask them to get involved in giving their views on future research. For the full story on Oxford Biomedical Research Centre website
New research has, for the first time, established a strong link between high blood pressure and the most common heart valve disorder in high-income countries. The NIHR Oxford BRC-funded study by The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford followed 5.5 million adults in the UK over 10 years and found that […]
Staff and patients at the Oxford Cancer Centre at the Churchill Hospital have thanked fundraisers for the Bloodwise charity who have raised enough money to fully fund a trial of a new leukaemia drug. The staff and patient Thelma, who has been on the trial, sent their appreciation in a video to Bloodwise after fundraisers, […]
The world’s first widespread human testing of a flu vaccine which NIHR Oxford BRC researchers hope will protect more over 65-year-olds against influenza has begun in the NHS. More than 10,000 people aged 65 and over will be asked to take part in a study supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and […]
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new way to detect heart damage caused by chemotherapy. The high-tech scanning techniques were enabled by funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF), and could reveal whether chemotherapy is damaging a person’s heart before any symptoms appear. For the full story on University of Oxford website
Researchers have launched a campaign to end 200 years of confusion in diagnosing a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects two children in every classroom. Following a five year campaign to raise awareness of language difficulties, the researchers are supporting a drive to agree a new, streamlined terminology that will make the ‘hidden condition’ easier to diagnose […]
Researchers from Oxford have been using virtual reality software to compile genetic data to create models which explain how genes are controlled within their natural chromosomal environments. A team from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine (WIMM) have been working in collaboration with physicists from Universita’ di Napoli and software developers and artists at […]
New research shows that blood donors could safely give blood more frequently than is allowed at present. At the moment in the UK men can give blood every 12 weeks, women every 16 weeks. The new research demonstrates that in certain situations and for certain donors, shortening the donation interval is a viable approach for […]