18 November 2021
\n \n \n \nGeorgette Eaton shares an overview of her research as part of her NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship focusing on the employment of paramedics in primary care.
\n \n\n \n \n8 October 2021
\n \n \n \nDaily meat consumption in the UK has decreased by approximately 17.4g per person per day \u2013 just under a 17% reduction \u2013 in the last decade finds new research from the University of Oxford. Between 2008/09 and 2018/19 people in the UK reduced both the amount of red and processed meat they eat, while slightly increasing their white meat consumption. Yet, this reduction is significantly less than the 30% reduction the National Food Strategy has recently called for within the next ten years.
\n \n\n \n \n30 September 2021
\n \n \n \nUse of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT), also known as hormone replacement therapy, HRT) is not associated with an increased risk of developing dementia, regardless of hormone type, dose, or duration, conclude a team of researchers from across the UK.
\n \n\n \n \n26 March 2021
\n \n \n \nFive simple communication changes could enable doctors to have more equitable and effective conversations about weight loss, finds new research from the University of Oxford and Loughborough University. With obesity as one of the few modifiable risk factors for developing severe COVID, the findings are especially important during the current pandemic.
\n \n\n \n \n5 March 2021
\n \n \n \nThree articles, led by Oxford researchers in the department, including three DPhil students, make the top 10 list for \r\nthe most read open research articles in the BJGP Open for 2020 - including number one.
\n \n\n \n \n16 February 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Social Prescribing Research Network from the University of Oxford have today launched a new website, bringing together world-class evidence-based research and expertise from the cultural and heritage sector to support people's health and well-being through social prescribing.
\n \n\n \n \n15 January 2021
\n \n \n \nA new study led by the University of Oxford has found that since the first coronavirus lockdown the number of people diagnosed with bowel cancer in England has fallen sharply, with a deficit persisting up to October 2020.
\n \n\n \n \n17 December 2020
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Dr Caitlin Pilbeam, a medical anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in the Department, who has been awarded the Mildred Blaxter Fellowship from the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness.
\n \n\n \n \n26 November 2020
\n \n \n \nFindings indicate that gestational age at birth is a strong predictor of ill health throughout childhood
\n \n\n \n \n19 October 2020
\n \n \n \nBuilding on recent research highlighting the unmet social care needs of adults with Tourette\u2019s, academics from Bath and Oxford are teaming up with comedians with the condition to challenge the stereotypes and stigma that exist.
\n \n\n \n \n25 August 2020
\n \n \n \nThe study highlights the art of General Practice - GPs can pick up a lot from the way patients behave.
\n \n\n \n \n19 August 2020
\n \n \n \nIt\u2019s cheap, readily available, and has virtually no side effects. Doctors can recommend it, finds research.
\n \n\n \n \n18 August 2020
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n13 August 2020
\n \n \n \nNew research will help GPs to identify the signs, symptoms, and blood test results they should look for to swiftly diagnose cancer in people with unexpected weight loss. The findings have implications for existing health policy and guidelines.
\n \n\n \n \n19 May 2020
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n4 March 2020
\n \n \n \nUK general practitioners tend to overestimate the benefit or harm associated with prescription drugs for long-term conditions, meaning they rely on their broad understanding rather than precise knowledge of treatment effects, finds a survey by Oxford University researchers.
\n \n\n \n \n13 January 2020
\n \n \n \n\n \n \n16 December 2019
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\n \n \n \nOn average, countries implemented just under half of the 18 non-communicable disease (NCD) policies recommended by WHO in 2017, and implementation is slowly improving over time.
\n \n\n \n \n25 September 2019
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