Major £2.2m research project aims to improve treatment and understanding of Long COVID DescriptionThe University of Birmingham today launches a major new £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of so-called Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.Date:18/02/2021Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Major £2.2m research project aims to improve treatment and understanding of Long COVID DescriptionThe University of Birmingham today launches a major new £2.2m government-funded research project to improve the treatment, causes and symptoms of so-called Long COVID in non-hospitalised patients.Date:18/02/2021Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Birmingham maternity experts call for urgent action on pregnancy 'drug drought' DescriptionLeaders in maternal healthcare have called for lifesaving research into pharmaceuticals for use during pregnancy, in a new report which highlights the challenges of pregnancy-related complications.Date:18/01/2021Categories: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences Government is missing its key healthy ageing targets and must act now, report finds DescriptionThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted stark inequalities in healthy life expectancy, according to a report into ageing published on Friday 15 January.Date:15/01/2021Categories: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences New COVID-19 test gives positive result in just a few minutes DescriptionA new COVID-19 test that reduces testing time from 30 minutes to less than five and delivers accurate results has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.Date:06/01/2021Categories: Engineering and Physical Sciences, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences Death and the 'Spanish Lady': Suicide in Pandemic Times DescriptionIn 1918-19, the 'Spanish Flu', (or Spanish Lady'), is estimated to have killed over 50M people. What is less well-known is that many others succumbed to its effects on mental wellbeing and died by suicide as a result.Date:16/11/2020Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Trial will test existing drugs against rare blood cancer DescriptionA clinical trial designed to test existing drugs in the treatment of a rare blood cancer has been launched at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick.Date:26/10/2020Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research Intensive monoculture is putting water systems in peril DescriptionThe global spread of vast forest plantations and agricultural monocultures are turning once diverse landscapes into areas of land supporting single plant species, with huge implications for our terrestrial water cycle.Date:22/09/2020Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research International Research Programme to help young people at risk of psychotic illness DescriptionThe University of Birmingham is leading the UK site of a new International programme to develop models for predicting outcomes for young people who are at imminent and high risk of psychotic illness.Date:21/09/2020Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research QMS - four new SOPs DescriptionFour SOPs and associated QCDs released: QMS Development and Management SOP, Healthy Volunteers & Medical Oversight SOP, Skeletal Muscle Biopsies SOP and Food & Nutritional Components SOP. All effective as of 20-Jul-2020.Date:05/08/2020Categories: Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research Displaying 1 to 10 of 159 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next