Mum-to-be takes part in diabetes research
02 July 2019
A mum-to-be who is taking part in diabetes research has welcomed a major rise in the number of participants in Buckinghamshire NHS studies.
02 July 2019
A mum-to-be who is taking part in diabetes research has welcomed a major rise in the number of participants in Buckinghamshire NHS studies.
02 July 2019
A Berkshire man who was diagnosed with prostate cancer a month before losing his brother to the condition is back to running half marathons after taking part in an NHS drugs trial.
02 July 2019
A retired lecturer whose eczema cleared up after he took part in a drug trial has welcomed a major increase in the number of NHS research participants in Oxfordshire.
02 July 2019
The number of participants in health research studies supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network Thames Valley and South Midlands (LCRN) has risen to more than 60,000.
01 July 2019
The largest ever clinical trial of virtual reality to treat a mental health disorder has opened in the NHS.
07 June 2019
A survey of NHS research participants in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire found that 92 percent would take part in another study.
03 June 2019
Four new speciality leads have been appointed by the NIHR Clinical Research Network Thames Valley and South Midlands (LCRN) to oversee studies in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes and Oxfordshire.
23 May 2019
An Oxfordshire couple who have been married for 69 years are taking part in NHS research into dementia after one was diagnosed with the condition.
20 May 2019
Oxfordshire schoolgirl Honor Stanmore’s eczema has improved since taking medication for a study at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital.
20 May 2019
Chloe Phippard’s youngest daughter, Ava, is taking part in a trial to see if daily doses of insulin powder can prevent infants from developing type 1 diabetes.
20 May 2019
Berkshire dad Richard Lelliott took part in NHS research after he was diagnosed with autism during a four-month stay at the inpatients unit at Reading’s Prospect Park Hospital.
15 May 2019
Using a single dose of antibiotic to prevent infections after assisted vaginal births would reduce antibiotic use by 17% and halve the rate of infection, according to a new NIHR-funded study.
15 May 2019
Research suggests that giving progesterone to pregnant women with early pregnancy bleeding and a history of miscarriage could increase their chances of having a baby.
18 April 2019
The OxQUIP project is developing new, more objective ways of measuring symptoms in diseases such as Parkinson’s, in order to speed up diagnosis and the hunt for effective treatments.
12 April 2019
The public learned about NHS research and how to get involved at an information stand in Milton Keynes.
29 March 2019
The role of research in mental health care was discussed at a Q&A following a play about a clinical drug trial in Oxford.
27 March 2019
A Buckinghamshire cake decorator who retired aged 60 due to multiple sclerosis (MS) is taking part in NHS research into preventing urine infections in people with spinal conditions.
11 March 2019
People who are shorter are more at risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), which causes pain in the hand, the world’s first study into the genetics of the condition has found.
07 March 2019
A Berkshire woman with osteoarthritis of the knee is able to walk without limping after undergoing a new treatment as part of a European first study in the NHS.
19 February 2019
NIHR researchers have carried out the world’s first gene therapy operation to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of sight loss in the UK.
15 February 2019
Dr Andrew Molodynski, consultant psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, explains new research into treatment resistant depression.
31 January 2019
Pills are just as effective as intravenous (IV) injections in tackling bone infections, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has found, raising hopes that patients could go home sooner and reduce NHS costs.
28 January 2019
The way study teams upload recruitment data is to change in 2019 for trials supported by the NIHR Clinical Research Network Thames Valley and South Midlands (LCRN).
10 January 2019
A hairdresser who lost her mother to breast cancer is taking part in an international research trial in the NHS after being diagnosed with the condition.
14 November 2018
An Oxfordshire teenager who is using a mobile phone app connected to a pump to deliver insulin as part of a study into type 1 diabetes is urging others to take part in NHS research.