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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
NDCN welcomes the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit
General Research
1 April 2020
We are pleased to announce that today the University of Oxford MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit joins the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) as a sixth division.
Controlling coronavirus transmission using a mobile app to trace close proximity contacts
Coronavirus COVID-19 General Research
31 March 2020
A team of medical researchers and bioethicists at Oxford University has published results today in Science that further our understanding of coronavirus transmission.
Professor Kim Nasmyth honoured with Centenary Award
General Research
27 March 2020
Professor Kim Nasmyth (Department of Biochemistry) honoured with the prestigious Centenary Award 2021 from the Biochemical Society
Integrating Cancer Imaging Biomarker Clinical Research Across the UK
General Research
26 March 2020
UK National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA) establishes infrastructure for validation and adoption of cancer imaging biomarkers as decision-making tools in clinical trials and NHS practice. Researchers and medical experts from nine world-leading medical imaging centres across the UK come together to form an integrated infrastructure for standardising and validating cancer imaging biomarkers for clinical use.
The cost of self-harm to hospitals in England
General Research
12 March 2020
In 2013, self-harm cost hospitals in England an estimated £128.6m according to a new study led by the Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) and the Centre for Suicide Research (Department of Psychiatry).
What is the ‘right’ age to have a child?
General Research
11 March 2020
An article on what is a safe child bearing age by Principal Investigator Dr Suzannah Williams and DPhil student Charlotte Walker from the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproduction Health, was among the most-read pieces of 2018-19 from Oxford academics in the academic journal The Conversation. It had almost a quarter of a million reads shared between the original and its French and Spanish translations.
AI finds “smell” genes might have a role beyond the nose
General Research
9 March 2020
Research from the Department of Engineering Science finds that the genes that help you smell could also be assisting the spread of colon cancer.