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Birmingham Scientists pioneer trauma care improvements

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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have pioneered a ground-breaking centre which brings together military and trauma surgeons and scientists to share their medical research expertise and boost trauma care delivery at the earliest stages of injury.
Date:
21/01/2011
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Creating a more efficient healthcare system

Creating a more efficient healthcare system
Description
Individual patient budgets should play a bigger part in health and social care according to a major new report edited by experts from the University of Birmingham and the Centre for Welfare Reform.
Date:
17/01/2011
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Understanding the economic impact of the UK's creative hotspots

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A new report produced by a team of researchers from Birmingham Business School has shown the spread of creative industries in the UK in order to understand their impact on the UK economy and their role in the pursuit of economic recovery.
Date:
03/12/2010
Categories:
Research, Social Sciences

Early results from CERN give an insight into life immediately after the Big Bang

Early results from CERN give an insight into life immediately after the Big Bang
Description
In an experiment to collide lead nuclei together at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, physicists from the ALICE detector team which includes researchers from the University of Birmingham have discovered that the very early Universe was not only very hot and dense but behaved like a hot liquid.
Date:
24/11/2010
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

Physicists creating mini Big Bangs at the Large Hadron Collider

Physicists creating mini Big Bangs at the Large Hadron Collider
Description
Birmingham physicists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider's (LHC's) in Switzerland are gearing up to study a piece of the Universe as it would have been just moments after the Big Bang.
Date:
09/11/2010
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research

A new solution to reduce fatal bird collisions

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Ornithologists at the University have joined forces with researchers from the University of Cape Town to come up with a new way of preventing birds from colliding with power lines.
Date:
03/11/2010
Categories:
Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

New treatment to reduce the relapse rate in bladder cancer patients

New treatment to reduce the relapse rate in bladder cancer patients
Description
A major bladder cancer trial, funded by Cancer Research UK, has shown that adding two commonly used chemotherapy drugs to traditional radiotherapy can reduce the chance of a patient's tumour coming back by a third.
Date:
03/11/2010
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Measuring stars to reveal greater understanding of the Sun

Description
Researchers from the University have detected a star in our galaxy that is older and bigger than our Sun. It is hoped this can give us insight into the behaviour of the Sun and to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of stars and our galaxy.
Date:
28/10/2010
Categories:
Engineering and Physical Sciences, Research
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