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Soups, smartphones and supermarket shopping

23 September 2016

Health behaviours Cardiovascular & metabolic Patient experience Awards & appointments

Obesity studies are among six new departmental projects to be funded by the NIHR CLAHRC Oxford.

Funding boost for medical research in collaboration with NHS Oxfordshire

16 September 2016

Awards & appointments

The University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) have won £113.7 million to support ground breaking medical research.

Electronic cigarettes can help smokers to quit

14 September 2016

Health behaviours Informing policy

Electronic cigarettes may help smokers to stop smoking and without serious side-effects for up to two years, find Oxford University researchers.

Recognition of Distinction 2016

30 August 2016

Awards & appointments Clinical trials Patient experience

Congratulations to Ly-Mee Yu and Lisa Hinton.

Department researcher to chair new NIHR funding board

3 August 2016

Awards & appointments

All the fun of the fete

15 July 2016

Department throws family summer party for staff and students

Genetics of type 2 diabetes revealed in unprecedented detail

13 July 2016

Cardiovascular & metabolic

Department research plays a part in landmark study on type 2 diabetes

Helping GPs diagnose urinary tract infections in children and improve antibiotic use

12 July 2016

Infection & acute care

Researchers develop new symptoms-and-signs-based clinical rule to identify young children for non-invasive urine sampling.

Researchers call for more focus on ways to improve end of life care at home

6 July 2016

Infection & acute care

Clinical researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences looked at how out-of-hours GP services are being used to support patients dying at home.

Evidence stacks up for INR self-monitoring

5 July 2016

Cardiovascular & metabolic Research methods & EBM

Self-monitoring or self-management of anticoagulation therapy can help reduce thromboembolic events.