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Cancer and Genomics Experimental cancer therapy research continues at Birmingham New and innovative ways to detect and treat cancer being trialled at Birmingham are to receive renewed funding from Cancer Research UK and the NIHR.
26 June 2019 University of Birmingham Professor receives national midwifery honour A University of Birmingham Professor has received a national award from the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) for her contribution to midwifery.
26 June 2019 Researchers implement advanced imaging technique to accelerate patient-specific 3D printing Pioneering research led by the University of Birmingham has implemented an advanced imaging technique that could accelerate the development of patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) printing.
17 June 2019 Repurposing existing drugs or combining therapies could help in the treatment of autoimmune diseases Research led by the University of Birmingham has found that re-purposing already existing drugs or combining therapies could be used to treat patients who have difficult to treat autoimmune diseases.
13 June 2019 Pre-qualifying education and training helps health workers tackle gender based violence Gender-based violence could be tackled more effectively by giving healthcare students wider and more practical education and training in identifying and responding to the 'warning signs', according to a new study.
12 June 2019 Birmingham researcher awarded prize in national EPSRC competition Nina Vyas, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Dentistry, took 3rd place in the innovation category of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's annual national science photography competition.
07 June 2019 Women who are experiencing domestic abuse are nearly three times as likely to develop mental illness Academics at the University of Birmingham have identified a significant association between mental illness and domestic abuse in UK women.
07 June 2019 New technique will help experts make heads or tails of male fertility A new way of analysing sperm that tracks the movement of the sperm tail could enable substantial improvements to male fertility testing.
05 June 2019 Mortality rate 'weekend effect' not a reliable measure of care quality in hospitals The higher mortality rate for weekend hospital admissions should not be used as an indicator of quality of care finds a new study conducted by the University of Birmingham and the University of Warwick.
03 June 2019 Key link discovered between tissue cell type and different forms of arthritis Pioneering research by scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford brings us a step closer to developing targeted therapies for inflammatory diseases.
03 June 2019 Breastfeeding mums' milk can transfer life-long protection against infection to their babies Mothers' breast milk can provide protection against infection that lasts for life, finds new research in mice by an international team of scientists including experts at the University of Birmingham.
17 May 2019 Only 3% of children in England visit dentist before their first birthday, study finds Research led by the University of Birmingham has revealed that just 3% of children in England visited the dentist before their first birthday.
15 May 2019 Cancer Research UK Birmingham Centre awarded £3.8 million to transform clinical academic training Significant funding of over £3.8 million has been awarded to the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Birmingham Centre, based at the University of Birmingham, to develop its clinical academic training programme.