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New weapon identified in arsenal against disease
General Research
13 May 2020
Researchers in the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) reveal supramolecular attack particles are autonomous killing entities released from cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Pregnant women are not at greater risk of severe COVID-19 than other women
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
12 May 2020
Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Population Health, in collaboration with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Universities of Leeds and Birmingham, Kings and Imperial Colleges London, have published new research that suggests pregnant women are no more likely to become ill with severe COVID-19 than non-pregnant woman. However, the majority of women who did become severely ill were in their third trimester of pregnancy, emphasising the importance of social distancing for this group.
Coronavirus: scientists promoting chloroquine and remdesivir are acting like sports rivals
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
12 May 2020
New BBC Radio Series: The Anatomy of Melancholy
General Research
11 May 2020
A new BBC Radio 4 series: The Anatomy of Melancholy will air from Monday 11 May at 1.45 pm. The first episode is entitled - Who is free from melancholy?
Common diabetes drug helps reverse diabetic patients’ heart disease risk
General Research
7 May 2020
Risk factors for COVID-19 death revealed in world’s largest analysis of patient records
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
7 May 2020
The largest study to date, analysing NHS health data from 17.4 million UK adults between 1 February 2020 and 25 April 2020, has given the strongest evidence on risk factors associated with COVID-19 death.
Major stressors for parents during COVID-19 revealed in new report
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
7 May 2020
Work was cited as the most frequent source of stress for parents, followed by their children's wellbeing
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards funding to two Oxford teams to support inflammation research
Awards and Appointments General Research
30 April 2020
Two different teams from the Medical Sciences Division have received a share of $14 million in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative as one of 29 projects that will explore emerging ideas regarding the role of inflammation in disease.
Music-making brings us together during the coronavirus pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
30 April 2020
Results of remdesivir trial released
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
30 April 2020
The results of a placebo-controlled trial of remdesivir in COVID-19 patients have been published in the Lancet.
Safeguarding the malaria endgame in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
28 April 2020
Blog by Rima Shretta in the Centre for Tropical Medicine & Global Health (Nuffield Department of Medicine). As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its path to LMICs, its impact is likely to be even more devastating, potentially reversing recent gains made in the management of other communicable diseases. Of particular concern is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria. COVID-19 has been slow to arrive and spread across Africa; nevertheless, there are many reasons to be concerned about malaria within the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New technique could shed light on how blood transports oxygen in disorders such as COVID-19
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
23 April 2020
Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) scientists develop single-cell oxygen saturation imaging to study oxygen handling by red blood cells. New physiological techniques that measure the blood's oxygen saturation are particularly important in light of the current pandemic, as COVID-19 patients present an abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood.
Government collaboration to track Covid-19 in UK population launched
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
23 April 2020
Researchers from the University of Oxford are supporting a new government study to track coronavirus (COVID-19) in the general population.
Natural mood regulation low or even absent in people with depression
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
22 April 2020
Periods of lockdown during the COVID-19 situation likely to exacerbate problems with mood regulation, say experts at the University of Oxford
Mental health and brain research must be a higher priority in global response to tackle COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
17 April 2020
A new paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry highlights an urgent need to tackle the harmful impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and potentially the brain and calls for research on these areas to be central to the global response to the pandemic.
Oxford-led research describes the safety profile and potential harms of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
16 April 2020
Over 300 international researchers from the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community studied data from almost 1 million patients. They declared hydroxychloroquine safe for short-term use, but urge caution in using it in combination with azithromycin.
Digital contact tracing can slow or even stop coronavirus transmission and ease us out of lockdown
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
16 April 2020
BRC funds new COVID-19 research projects
Awards and Appointments Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
7 April 2020
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) has allocated funding to three COVID-19 research projects in an attempt to improve treatment, understand how the virus interacts with chronic diseases, and the longer-term effects of infection on organs.
Using wearable technology to monitor COVID-19 patients
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Innovation Research
1 April 2020
System being used in John Warin isolation ward at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital