23 February 2018
Birmingham research into the development of vaccines against bacterial infections has been highlighted during a visit to campus by the International Development Minister.
22 February 2018
Dr Myriam Chimen has been awarded a 5-year Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship to investigate the glucocorticoid regulation of a novel pathway controlling T-cell trafficking in chronic inflammatory diseases and ageing.
15 February 2018
A study jointly led by the University of Birmingham and University of Edinburgh has revealed that a new scanning technology could almost halve the number of liver biopsies carried out on people with fatty liver disease.
13 February 2018
The University of Birmingham will play a leading role in a new £2.3 million clinical trial aimed at improving treatment to prevent potentially deadly bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis.
08 February 2018
School-based healthy lifestyle interventions alone are not effective in the fight against childhood obesity, researchers at the University of Birmingham have warned.
06 February 2018
Changes have been recommended to international guidelines used in the development of clinical trials in an effort to gain information about the impact of the treatment on participating patients and their quality of life.
02 February 2018
Professor Peter Hawkey and Dr Matthew O'Shea have been awarded the highly prestigious Garrod Medal and the Gilbert Blane Medal respectively.
16 January 2018
Women who have gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy have a higher than usual risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
22 December 2017
Dr John Williams, Managing Director – Birmingham Health Partners, writes for the Birmingham Brief on the future of the health and life sciences sector.
21 December 2017
Community screening for osteoporosis could prevent more than a quarter of hip fractures in older women, according to new research.
21 December 2017
New recommendations, led by experts at the University of Birmingham, have been published to improve the use of liver blood tests.
13 December 2017
University of Birmingham spinout Oral Health Innovations Ltd and Simplyhealth Professionals announce today that 100,000 assessments have been carried out by the highly regarded Denplan PreViser Patient Assessment oral health assessment tool (DEPPA).