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\n \n\n \n23 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has today authorised a restart of clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCov-2019 Oxford coronavirus vaccine in the USA following the trials restarting in the UK, Brazil, South Africa and Japan.
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\n \n\n \n22 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA team at Bristol University has used recently developed techniques to validate that the vaccine accurately follows the genetic instructions programmed into it by the Oxford team.
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\n \n\n \n21 October 2020
\n \n \n \nEurope\u2019s BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha is supporting their community during the coronavirus pandemic by spreading awareness of the PRINCIPLE trial of Covid-19 treatments.
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\n \n\n \n21 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA new risk model, developed by UK researchers to predict a person\u2019s risk of being admitted to hospital and dying from Covid-19 has been published by The BMJ
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\n \n\n \n19 October 2020
\n \n \n \nInitial findings from a study looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that a large proportion COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital were still experiencing symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and depression two to three months after contracting the virus.
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\n \n\n \n16 October 2020
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\n \n\n \n14 October 2020
\n \n \n \nMadeleine Oliver is a 5th year medical student, originally from London. Like many other medical students Madeleine volunteered to help out with the fight against COVID-19. She spoke to us about what it\u2019s been like working on the frontline with doctors, nurses and patients at the hospital.
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\n \n\n \n9 October 2020
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\n \n\n \n8 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA free game launched today allows players to role-play the deployment of a virtual vaccine to help to halt the global spread of a viral pandemic.
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\n \n\n \n7 October 2020
\n \n \n \nAn international study led by researchers at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shown that patients with cirrhosis are at increased risk of dying as a result of COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n6 October 2020
\n \n \n \nPatients hospitalised with COVID-19 were more likely male, younger and, in both the US and Spain, had fewer comorbidities and lower medication use than hospitalized influenza patients according to a recent study published recently by the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford are starting a new study to explore the effectiveness of the anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drug adalimumab as a treatment for patients with COVID-19 in the community, especially care homes.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2020
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2020
\n \n \n \nAs COVID-19 infections begin to rise again, a novel testing strategy proposed by researchers at the University of Oxford at the start of the pandemic has become urgent once again.
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\n \n\n \n28 September 2020
\n \n \n \nNew research shows that, in a head-to-head comparison of five tests used to detect COVID-19 antibodies (known as \u2018immunoassays\u2019), an assay manufactured by Siemens and one developed by an academic partnership led by the University of Oxford had the most accurate results. The study is published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
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\n \n\n \n25 September 2020
\n \n \n \nScientists from the University of Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Medicine have today published their evaluation of LamPORE, a novel diagnostic platform for detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA. It combines loop-mediated isothermal amplification with nanopore sequencing. This technology has the potential to analyse thousands of samples per day on a single instrument.
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\n \n\n \n23 September 2020
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\n \n\n \n22 September 2020
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\n \n\n \n18 September 2020
\n \n \n \nProfessor Mahendra G Patel, University of Bradford, joins PRINCIPLE Trial as National Black, Asian and minority ethnic Community and Pharmacy Lead
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\n \n\n \n16 September 2020
\n \n \n \nA school-based survey of students in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire examined over 200 key factors in the lives and expectations of young people, aged 8-18 years, helping to shed light on mental health during lockdown.
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