Oxford consultant wins emergency medicine research award
25 February 2020
An Oxford consultant has won a national award for his role in promoting research in emergency medicine.
25 February 2020
An Oxford consultant has won a national award for his role in promoting research in emergency medicine.
20 February 2020
A Milton Keynes grandfather who was diagnosed with blood cancer in 2016 has praised an NHS drugs trial which has helped him keep clear of infections.
17 February 2020
A photography exhibition showcasing ground-breaking NHS research taking place across the Thames Valley has been launched in Oxford.
11 February 2020
An NIHR-funded study reveals a breakthrough for sportsmen and women in the treatment of Achilles tendon rupture, according to researchers.
24 January 2020
An Oxford research team has launched a six-month trial to assess whether an anti-epilepsy drug can help to treat memory loss in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
20 January 2020
University of Oxford researchers have begun a clinical trial to assess whether the drug sildenafil, marketed as Viagra, could improve blood flow to the brain and so have the potential to reduce damage to small blood vessels in the brain and prevent strokes.
15 January 2020
The first issue of a magazine about health research in Thames Valley is going out to NHS waiting rooms across the region.
10 January 2020
Both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound scans work well for staging and monitoring Crohn’s disease but MRI is more accurate, research found.
09 January 2020
People in Thames Valley can now find more than 700 research studies taking place in the NHS, public health and social care using a new interactive online map.
07 January 2020
Wantage’s Dr Elizabeth Morris was recognised for leading a study into helping patients reduce carbohydrates in their diets by cutting out sugar and starchy foods such as pasta and rice.
27 December 2019
A large-scale trial has found that the speed of increasing milk feed volumes in low birth weight or very low gestational age babies who are on intravenous feeding does not influence outcomes.
23 December 2019
Contingency management - the use of positive reinforcement in the form of supermarket vouchers to shape behaviour - makes no difference in the frequency of cannabis use or relapse rates in those with early psychosis. Although psychotic symptoms initially decrease, these changes are not sustained over the longer term and are no better than with an optimised educational intervention.
17 December 2019
Dominic Jones, Research Co-ordinator at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, explains research into improving care for young people coming to the emergency department for self-harm.
25 November 2019
More than 100 healthcare staff supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) attended an event on NHS research in GP practices and other community settings.
08 November 2019
Three patients at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are among the first in the world to receive a pioneering experimental treatment for the devastating and currently incurable neurological condition, Huntington's disease.
04 November 2019
A therapy that targets the immune system showed promise for treating atopic dermatitis – the most common form of eczema – in a small proof-of-concept trial, led by scientists from the Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford.
15 October 2019
A low cost and widely available drug could reduce deaths in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients by as much as 20%, depending on the severity of injury, a major global study funded by NIHR has found.
09 October 2019
Researchers in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire have screened more than 7,500 newborn babies for type 1 diabetes risk as part of a study into preventing the condition.
04 October 2019
Healthcare staff in Berkshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire have been awarded funding to develop their career in research.
26 September 2019
Thames Valley researchers honoured at awards
12 August 2019
Alix Covenant is a health trainer at the University of Oxford who works on The Trial of physical Activity and Reduction of Smoking (TARS) study, which is looking at whether giving smokers one-to-one support can help them cut down or quit
30 July 2019
How young people with type 1 diabetes, autistic spectrum disorder and cerebral palsy experience the transition to adult services depends on their condition and locality.
26 July 2019
Women in labour who had the short-acting strong painkiller remifentanil instead of pethidine had less need for further pain relief.
19 July 2019
Partial knee replacements are as good as total knee replacements whilst being more cost effective, results from an NIHR-funded clinical trial show.
11 July 2019
A simple finger-prick blood test could help prevent unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics for people with the lung condition chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to NIHR-funded research.