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14 September 2020
A stroke trial is among studies to have re-opened at Reading’s Royal Berkshire Hospital after being paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
14 September 2020
A commonly used drug should be safe in trials to prevent COVID-19, a study has reported.
09 September 2020
A photography exhibition showcasing ground-breaking NHS research taking place across the Thames Valley has opened in Didcot.
09 September 2020
How research is helping improve the lives of millions of NHS patients is the focus of a series of online talks from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
09 September 2020
Patients, NHS trusts and local research teams in Thames Valley have contributed important data to new global research which shows that corticosteroids can significantly improve outcomes for severely ill patients with COVID-19.
28 August 2020
More than 11,000 people have signed up to a new NHS website to receive information on COVID-19 vaccine studies they could take part in.
14 August 2020
Kelly Fricker is the lead research nurse at The Boathouse Surgery in Pangbourne, Reading.
12 August 2020
Plaster casts are as effective as surgery for healing a common wrist fracture in young people, NIHR-funded research found.
12 August 2020
Research midwife Danielle Thornton is working on studies into how COVID-19 affects pregnancy and whether genetics can influence how people react to the virus.
11 August 2020
Milton Keynes’ Crad Allerton is a Research Champion, where members of the public volunteer to spread the word about health and care research.
06 August 2020
The shortlist for this year’s NIHR Clinical Research Network Thames Valley and South Midlands (LCRN) staff awards has been announced.
05 August 2020
About two-thirds of people who care for family members with dementia experience loneliness, NIHR-supported research found.
05 August 2020
A surgical procedure results in a small but significantly higher quality of life for women with painful uterine fibroids, NIHR-backed research found.
31 July 2020
A ‘pill on a string’ test can identify ten times more people with possible early signs of oesophageal cancer than the usual GP route, NIHR-supported research found.
23 July 2020
An inhaled drug can improve the chance of survival for hospitalised COVID-19 patients, an NIHR-backed study found.
22 July 2020
A photography exhibition showcasing ground-breaking NHS research taking place across the Thames Valley has opened in Newbury.
21 July 2020
A coronavirus vaccine provokes a powerful response from the body’s immune system to fight the virus, Oxford researchers have found.
10 July 2020
Women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for the first time did not benefit from having an endometrial scratch prior to treatment, NIHR-supported research found.
01 July 2020
More than 59,000 participants took part in NHS research supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network Thames Valley and South Midlands last year, new figures show.
30 June 2020
Geraldine Hambrook is a research nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Aylesbury’s Stoke Mandeville Hospital, who works on studies into topics including life-threatening infections and emergency surgery. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, she has focused on studies into collecting data from patients to understand the virus.
26 June 2020
A Buckinghamshire grandfather who feared he would die from COVID-19 has taken part in research into the disease.
25 June 2020
The Duke of Cambridge visited the University of Oxford’s Oxford Vaccine Centre to learn more about their work on a vaccine against COVID-19.
25 June 2020
Dr Raha West is an anaesthetist and principal investigator for the RECOVERY study into COVID-19 treatments at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
17 June 2020
The roll out in the NHS of the first drug shown to improve survival for hospitalised COVID-19 patients has been welcomed by a Buckinghamshire woman who took it for a research trial.
17 June 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has praised patients and researchers for their role in a study that led to the first NHS treatment to improve COVID-19 survival.