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\n \n\n \n3 August 2018
\n \n \n \nCommonly used medications for alcohol and opioid addictions have been shown for the first time to reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour and accidental overdose.
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\n \n\n \n27 July 2018
\n \n \n \nScientists are racing to stamp out the disease in Southeast Asia before unstoppable strains spread.
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\n \n\n \n27 July 2018
\n \n \n \nNiklas Bobrovitz, a PhD candidate in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford and an honorary fellow at the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, writes about his latest research into the medications that can reduce emergency hospital admissions.
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\n \n\n \n27 July 2018
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\n \n\n \n20 July 2018
\n \n \n \nA global review involving almost 20 million people has shown that having diabetes significantly raises the risk of developing cancer, and for women the risk is even higher.
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\n \n\n \n20 July 2018
\n \n \n \nA team of malaria experts from a large international research collaboration has today published results supporting the need for a radical cure strategy to tackle one of the most debilitating forms of malaria caused by the Plasmodium vivax parasite.
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\n \n\n \n19 July 2018
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\n \n\n \n18 July 2018
\n \n \n \nOxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has risen to the top of a table for the most patients recruited to take part in research studies.
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\n \n\n \n18 July 2018
\n \n \n \nProf Alan Stein co-authors a new paper revealing the increase of depression and anxiety in today's generation of young pregnant women.
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\n \n\n \n17 July 2018
\n \n \n \nThe study led by MRC WIMM researchers as part of an international team aims to understand what happens when patients stop responding to treatment.
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\n \n\n \n13 July 2018
\n \n \n \nAbout one billion people worldwide take regular aspirin, usually to prevent heart attacks or strokes. Writing in The Lancet, researchers have shown that \u2018one-dose-fits-all\u2019 use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks, stroke or cancer, is ineffective or harmful in the majority of people, and that a more tailored strategy is required.
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\n \n\n \n12 July 2018
\n \n \n \nA study published in The Lancet Psychiatry provides first evidence that psychological therapy can be successfully delivered in virtual reality (VR).
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\n \n\n \n12 July 2018
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\n \n\n \n10 July 2018
\n \n \n \nResearchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers.
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\n \n\n \n6 July 2018
\n \n \n \nRegular contact with healthcare professionals, support from peers and engaging in organised exercise could help people with chronic lung conditions to lead more active - and generally better lives, according to new research.
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\n \n\n \n4 July 2018
\n \n \n \nProfessor Peter Rothwell (Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences) says more must be done to raise awareness of the need to take rapid action after a mini-stroke in order to reduce the number of major strokes.
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\n \n\n \n2 July 2018
\n \n \n \nThis week marks the beginning of the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, and two groups from the Medical Sciences Division are there to engage visitors with their research.
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\n \n\n \n29 June 2018
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\n \n\n \n26 June 2018
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