Researchers from the University of Oxford have joined African universities and regional experts who are working with Wellcome to establish new science and policy consortiums that will address the escalating public health crisis driven by climate change - saving lives and livelihoods.
An AI-driven tool that tailors antidepressant treatment to individual patients was shown to improve outcomes for people with depression, compared to standard treatment, in a major international trial.
Applications are invited for the 2026 Jill and Herbert Hunt Travelling Scholarship to support travel abroad for clinical study or research from graduates of the Oxford University Medical School.
A new analysis of Child Measurement Programme data from England, Scotland, and Wales challenges recent reports suggesting children in Britain are getting shorter. The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, reveals that average child height has increased over the past two decades. But these gains are not related to improved child health, the researchers say. The increases in average height are closely linked to rising childhood obesity among poorer children and widening socioeconomic inequalities.
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences announces International Advisory Board to advance its Strategy 2025\u20132030 and global collaboration
A new study by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Population Health and in China has shown that entering adulthood with a healthy body weight is associated with a substantially lower risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory disease. The study of approximately half a million Chinese adults is published in Science Bulletin.
The largest ever study of non-meat diets and cancer risk has found that vegetarian diets are associated with lower risks of several cancers \u2012 breast, prostate, kidney and pancreatic cancers, and multiple myeloma \u2012 but a higher risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.
Advice on how general practice staff should talk to adult patients about behaviour change is common, but new research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences found that this behaviour-change communication guidance for general practice is rarely clearly substantiated with relevant evidence.
Researchers have uncovered a surprising and potentially transformative finding in the field of regenerative neuroscience: xenotransplanted mouse astrocytes dramatically enlarge following implantation into the injured brain, a response that was not anticipated and that may play a critical role in improving neural repair.
Published in Nature Aging today, five distinct subtypes of Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease have been identified by using Artificial Intelligence to analyse healthcare data from over 100,000 patients.
Vaccinations have started at the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sant\u00e9 \u2013 Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro (IRSS-URCN), Burkina Faso for two clinical trials to assess the blood-stage malaria vaccine candidates R78C and RH5.1 with Matrix-M (developed by the Draper Lab in the Department of Paediatrics), in combination with the R21/\u200bMatrix-M vaccine, which targets the earlier liver-stage.
The latest event of the Guest Lecture series welcomed Professor Sarah Stock, Programme Director of In Utero at Wellcome Leap, who delivered a compelling talk titled Breakthroughs in Women\u2019s Health.
Researchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine have developed the first combined human bone and bone marrow organoid platform capable of modelling long-term blood and immune cell production in a fully human 3D system.
A new multinational study from the INTERCOVID Consortium, led by researchers from the University of Oxford, has found that COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy, particularly when combined with a booster dose, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia, a serious and potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication. The findings offer unprecedented insight into preeclampsia prevention, independent of the direct effects of COVID-19 infection.
A new study into visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Brazil has created the most comprehensive picture of the disease in the country, and highlighted trends including more older patients being diagnosed with the disease and more patients presenting with relapses over time.
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