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Call to action on antibiotic resistance

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The Government's Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has this week warned that the spectre of antibiotic resistance should be ranked alongside terrorism and climate change in terms of potential risk to the nation.Laura Piddock, Professor of Microbiology at Birmingham, has been campaigning to raise public awareness of this issue
Date:
12/03/2013
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Drop in new drugs output 'a myth'

Drop in new drugs output 'a myth'
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The widely held belief that the UK supply of innovative new medicines has conspicuously dwindled in recent decades, is not borne out by the evidence, reveals research by the University of Birmingham published in the online journal BMJ Open.
Date:
25/02/2013
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Putting an end to monthly misery

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The hormone-releasing Mirena coil intrauterine device (IUD) is a better treatment for heavy periods than other conventional medical approaches, according to results of the world's biggest study into the problem, led by scientists from the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham.
Date:
14/01/2013
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

New £3 million Midlands centre to tackle age related ill health

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Professor Richard Dawkins will officially launch a new £3 million Midlands centre today (7th November) to establish what goes wrong with our bones, joints, ligaments and muscles as we age, the neural and psychological changes that occur and how diet, exercise and other interventions could help prevent this age-related decline. The MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research is a partnership between the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, one of only two new national centres funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Arthritis Research UK.
Date:
07/11/2012
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Wounded – the emotional story of two soldiers fighting a century apart

Wounded – the emotional story of two soldiers fighting a century apart
Description
As British military casualties continue to return from the war in Afghanistan, Wounded - an emotional new play by Jenny Stephens - tells the stories of two soldiers, fighting a century apart, but both coping with the aftermath of war. Informed by University research into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, as well as military medical practice in modern conflicts and the First World War, this timely and heart-warming site-specific play takes place at the Territorial Army Field Hospital in Kings Heath, Birmingham from October 30 to November 10.
Date:
30/10/2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Hospital mortality rates system 'inadequate'

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A brand new study by the University of Birmingham suggests that the system used by the Government to inform key decisions about the performance of NHS hospitals is inadequate.
Date:
17/10/2012
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Birmingham scientists win £1m cancer research boost

Birmingham scientists win £1m cancer research boost
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Birmingham scientists are leading the way in leukaemia research with a project using state-of-the-art technology to study the function of the entire human genome. The researchers hope to reveal how mutations in genes that are critical to the development of white blood cells trigger these cells into becoming cancer cells.
Date:
31/07/2012
Categories:
Medical and Dental Sciences, Research

Raising awareness of the brain

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It is becoming ever more important to understand how the brain works, in health and in disease. Top scientists and students from across the University of Birmingham are organising a series of events to engage public understanding of neuroscience - Brain Awareness Week.
Date:
13/03/2012
Categories:
Arts and Law, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Teaching
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