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Over 3,200 Oxfordshire residents take part in kidney disease study
Clinical Trials Research
12 April 2018
NewKI, one of UK’s largest observational studies of incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) in general practice, gets underway this month, involving 3,205 Oxfordshire residents and led by Oxford University researchers.
Oxford to benefit from government funding for research commercialisation
Innovation Research
12 April 2018
Oxford is to take part in three new government-funded projects designed to help universities collaborate with each other, and with external organisations, to boost research commercialisation.
Paracetamol protects kidney in severe malaria patients, study finds
Research
11 April 2018
Giving paracetamol (acetaminophen) to patients ill with severe malaria made them less likely to develop potentially fatal kidney failure, say researchers in a recent study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Weight loss is an important predictor of cancer
Research
10 April 2018
Unintended weight loss is the second highest risk factor for some forms of cancer, concludes the first robust research analysis to examine the association, led by primary care researchers.
Female body shape gene may increase risk of type 2 diabetes
Research
10 April 2018
Scientists at the University of Oxford have identified a gene that in women is linked to the creation and location of new fat cells and in turn contributes to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
Household air pollution linked to cardiovascular disease risk
Research
5 April 2018
Exposure to household air pollution from using wood or coal for cooking and heating is associated with higher risk of death from heart attack and stroke, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Decider or ditherer? How we make decisions
Research
4 April 2018
Professors Peter Brown and Rafal Bogacz in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences describe their research team’s discovery that a certain ‘hold your horses’ function in decision-making occurs in an extremely brief window of time, and involves bursts of a specific type of activity in a brain centre known as the subthalamic nucleus.
Oxford Vaccine Group leads meningitis vaccine trial for teenagers
Clinical Trials Research
28 March 2018
Researchers are working with schools around the county to find 24,000 volunteers aged 16 to 18 years to take part in the Be on the TEAM (Teenagers Against Meningitis) trial, led by the Oxford Vaccine Group at the Oxford University's Paediatrics Department with funding and support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Podcast: How do you mend a broken heart?
Research
28 March 2018
New Oxford Sparks podcast with DPAG researcher Nicola Smart offers new insights into cardiology
Premature hearts less able to cope with exercise
Research
20 March 2018
Changes in the structure and function of the hearts of people born prematurely may make them less able to cope with the pressures of exercise in adulthood, and could lead to increased risk of heart failure later in life.
Concerns raised over rising deaths in England and Wales
Research
15 March 2018
Health chiefs are failing to investigate a clear pattern of rising death rates and worsening health outcomes in England and Wales, argue experts in The BMJ, as the latest figures show more than 10,000 extra deaths in first weeks of 2018 compared with previous years.
Number of known stroke risk genes tripled
Research
15 March 2018
An international team of researchers part-funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has identified 22 new genetic risk factors for stroke, tripling the number of genetic mutations known to increase stroke risk.
International 3Rs prize goes to human-based computer models which could replace animal testing
Awards and Appointments Research
15 March 2018
The National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs) – an organisation dedicated to replacing, refining and reducing the use of animals in research and testing – has awarded its top prize for a research paper by a team from the Department of Computer of Science.
Treating depression in cancer hugely increases quality of life, but probably not length of life
Research
14 March 2018
Professor Michael Sharpe (Department of Psychiatry) and colleagues identify that treating depression doesn’t make cancer patients live longer, but it does make lives immeasurably better
Smoking linked with higher risk of type 2 diabetes
Research
14 March 2018
Smoking is associated with significantly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to new research in China published in The Lancet Public Health.
Computer simulations move step closer to reducing animal use in drug testing
Innovation Research
13 March 2018
The march towards replacing animals in drug testing with computer simulations has made another significant step forward, with the development of new software which can predict the possible cardiac side effects of taking a new drug.
Clinical research network for epidemics launched in sub-Saharan Africa
Research
12 March 2018
A new clinical research and response network for epidemic infections has been launched in sub-Saharan Africa with the support of a €10 million grant from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).