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Maternal Health Government acknowledges need for earlier access to care after miscarriage, in response to review Long-awaited independent report on NHS miscarriage care and improvement ideas was published earlier this week alongside government response to calls for change.
17 August 2023 New programme to improve how medicines are used in hospital and community settings Professor Liz Sapey will co-lead a programme aimed to transform the use of medicines for patients, especially those with multiple long-term conditions.
15 August 2023 There’s something in your eye – ocular microbiome study gets $2.3m International collaboration will create definitive catalogue of micro-organisms living around our eyes.
01 August 2023 University of Birmingham partners on reproductive health research University of Birmingham experts will collaborate on researching policy for reproductive health provision, as part of a new Policy Research Unit.
31 July 2023 New partnership to advance research into IBD Researchers from the University of Birmingham will work with Roche to identify new avenues for treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
31 July 2023 UK and Ireland-wide network to advance ‘urgently needed’ congenital heart disease clinical research A new national strategy document, released today, should help aid progress in congenital heart disease research through greater collaboration between centres.
28 July 2023 Government acknowledges need for earlier access to care after miscarriage, in response to review Long-awaited independent report on NHS miscarriage care and improvement ideas was published earlier this week alongside government response to calls for change.
25 July 2023 Vaccine rollout cut Covid deaths for cancer patients by 84% New two year UK-wide study finds Covid-19 risk for cancer patients still higher than general population, but fell following availability of vaccinations in 2021
21 July 2023 New resources to improve patient and public involvement in health research Patients and members of the public will be able to more easily take part in research thanks to a new tool developed by Birmingham’s work on Long COVID.
17 July 2023 Nearly half of modern slavery survivors not getting adequate psychological assistance New report on experiences of survivors accessing wellbeing support in England and Wales
10 July 2023 Tip of the iceberg: research to understand experiences and needs of people with eating disorders New project to bring anthropological approach to understand lived experience of people with eating disorders
06 July 2023 Many clinically at-risk patients mounted low or no immune response to Covid vaccines OCTAVE study reveals real-world vaccine response in patients with impaired immune systems