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, […]
In this Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health (Nuffield Department of Medicine) blog, Rima Shretta (Honorary Visiting Research Fellow) outlines the direct and indirect costs of the COVID-19 pandemic which may impact the global economy. Summary of the breakdown of the direct and indirect costs of COVID-19, adapted from Evans D, Over M. 2020. […]
The NIHR and NHS England and NHS Improvement have designated eight Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) in England. AHSCs are partnerships between top universities and NHS organisations that combine excellence in research, health education and patient care. The newly designated NIHR and NHS England and NHS Improvement Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) will harness […]
NHS England has announced a programme to provide NHS staff with evidence-based digital programmes to protect their mental health during the COVID-19 response. The apps are designed to help maintain healthy sleep, and reduce anxiety. Sleepio is an automated digital self-help app based on cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia. It was built by Colin Espie, Professor […]
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), which is hosted by Oxford University Hospitals, has allocated funding to three new COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs. The Oxford BRC’s Director, Prof Helen McShane, said: “The researchers we […]