Latest news Back to 'Institute of Inflammation and Ageing' University receives two awards to mark gender equality DescriptionThe College of Medical and Dental Sciences has achieved the Athena SWAN Silver award from the Athena SWAN Foundation, recognising the College's commitment to gender equality.Date:15/10/2020 Vitamin D deficiency increased risk of COVID in healthcare workers, new UK study shows DescriptionResearch finds healthcare workers who self-isolated after developing COVID-19 symptoms were more likely to have a vitamin D deficiency, with workers from Black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds particularly affected.Date:07/10/2020 How lupus patients would like to be treated: study identifies physician behaviours that help build trust and medical security DescriptionLupus patients – and those with related systemic autoimmune diseases – often experience persisting medical insecurity and negative healthcare-behaviours.Date:21/09/2020 Coronavirus-related children's diseases linked to blood cell changes DescriptionA disease occurring in children and linked to COVID-19 has significant changes in white blood cells.Date:11/08/2020 Researchers discover chemical messenger that instructs tissue cells to become aggressive DescriptionA University of Birmingham team have established that a chemical messenger released by blood vessels instructs tissue cells to become aggressive and destroy joints, a classic symptom of rheumatoid arthritis.Date:28/07/2020 UK children's intensive care units come together to offer first nationwide insight into new condition in children thought to be related to COVID-19 DescriptionA UK study into critically ill children admitted to paediatric intensive care units with symptoms of a rare, new inflammatory syndrome, has offered the first nationwide insights into the true extent of the condition.Date:14/07/2020 Birmingham professor awarded prestigious Carol Nachman prize for Rheumatology DescriptionProfessor Christopher Buckley has been awarded the 2020 Carol Nachman prize based on outstanding innovate research activities in the field of rheumatology.Date:17/06/2020 First drugs announced in major COVID-19 drugs trial DescriptionTwo UK drugs companies will be the first to partner with the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford as part of a major new UK drugs trial to test potential therapeutics to treat patients hospitalised with COVID-19.Date:10/06/2020 Birmingham designed test confirms COVID-19 as trigger for rare Kawasaki-like syndrome in children DescriptionA test developed in Birmingham has offered evidence confirming COVID-19 to be the cause of a newly emerged multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, who have tested negative for the virus by the PCR test.Date:08/06/2020 Chernajovsky Foundation support two PhD scholarships to develop novel therapies DescriptionTwo research groups have been awarded funds over £285,000 to support PhD scholarships from the Lorna and Yuti Chernajovsky Biomedical Research Foundation.Date:01/06/2020 Displaying 1 to 10 of 79 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next