Eight Oxford scientists are amongst 50 of the UK's world-leading researchers elected to join the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences this year.
Viral hepatitis is on the rise. Tackling hepatitis B in Africa is key to fighting back. \u201cHIV has been an acute pandemic with resources thrown at it.
For services to Clinical Medicine, Peter Radcliffe, Head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, and Fellow of Magdalen College recieved a Knighthood in the New Year Honours.
An analysis of antibiotic use at the John Radcliffe hospital has shown that some Doctors use up to 30% less antibiotics without risk to patients. However they may admit more patients when the diagnosis is unclear - a \u2018hold and observe\u2019 strategy as opposed to \u2018prescribe antibiotics and discharge\u2019.
Following a successful clinical trial, Dr Alissa Walsh, the main researcher, who works with Professor Simon Travis, has spoken about the online tool that allows people with a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) to manage their own condition and reduce hospital visits. This is now being rolled out to more patients in Oxford who suffer from ulcerative colitis.
Asthma is a chronic disease of the airways that is on the increase. 5.4 million people receive asthma medications in the UK each year. That is 1:12 adults and 1:11 children. Asthma is treatable and it is frustrating that despite the amount of treatment prescribed, one patient with asthma has an attack every ten seconds, and approximately 17% of asthma patients find it a disease difficult to.
Oxford Researchers have identified a potential therapeutic target for inflammatory bowel diseases. The findings are of particular importance to the 40% of patients who don\u2019t respond to anti-TNF therapy, the current treatment option available. Professor Simon Travis co-led this study.
Although viral sequences are important in traditional taxonomy, information used for virus classification typically requires information on their biological properties, such as host range, pathogenicity and virion structure as well as genetic relationships. In his recent Consensus statement, Professor Peter Simmonds proposes sequence-only classification, enabling much of the viral diversity observed in metagenomic sequence datasets to be incorporated into official virus taxonomy.
The NDM Graduate Prize winners for 2016 are Emma Davenport, Symon Kariuki, Sarah McCuaig, Manuel Rivas and Joshua Tan. The winners were awarded a \u00a3500 prize. This year\u2019s winners have worked across many research areas including malaria vaccine work, behavioural studies and software development.
Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe has won one of the most prestigious prizes in medicine. The Lasker Awards recognise contributions that have allowed major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human disease. Professor Ratcliffe is to receive the prizes for his work understanding the mechanisms by which cells sense and signal hypoxia (low oxygen levels), an important component of many human diseases including cancer, heart disease, stroke, vascular disease, and anaemia.
Medical and health teaching and research at Oxford University has been ranked as the world's best for the sixth year running in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The discipline-specific tables, released today, follow on from last week's announcement that Oxford has been ranked the top university in the world by the same publication - the first time a UK institution has been awarded the accolade.
Mucosal Associated Invariant T-cells (MAIT cells) Australian researchers recently found that they had an important role in fighting bacterial infections. Now, the Oxford team, led by Professor Paul Klenerman, say that they also fight viruses. Their results are in the journal Nature Communications.
Dr Nicola Fawcett from the Modernising Medical Microbiology research group writes in the Oxford Mail about her research on the human microbiome, and how it might be affected by medications such as antibiotics.
Dr Najib Rahman has led a study that challenges current guidelines that advocate the avoidance of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and use of small chest tubes for a specific lung condition.
Talking to BBC Radio Oxford, Professor John Frater describes how HIV hides from the immune system, and how a new trial hopes to get the virus to reveal itself, so that the immune system can kill it. Interview begins approximately five minutes from the start of the programme.
Research led by Professor John Frater sheds new light on how the HIV virus remains undetected in some patients, even after treatment is stopped. These findings could potentially lead to the eventual eradiction of HIV-1.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses a group of inflammatory conditions such as Crohn\u2019s and ulcerative colitis, which currently affect about 1% of the population in the UK, Europe and North America. It is an illness that happens behind closed doors, but the impact for the patient and their family and friends is often harrowing. Prof Simon Travis, a leading consultant at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, is interviewed about IBD.
A study by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine in The Lancet has tackled the controversial question of when to begin blood transfusions in cases where the blood loss is not life threatening.
7th April is World Health Day and marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization. This year\u2019s theme is food safety. NDM spoke to Professor Daniel Wilson about his research on tracking micro-organisms and how this can be applied to pathogens such as Campylobacter \u2013 a common cause of food poisoning.
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