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« Back to News and opinionNew NIHR Senior Investigators appointed
3 March 2021
Awards & appointments Digital health & innovation Patient experience
Professors Catherine Pope and John Powell join the NIHR college of senior research leaders.
Tourette’s ‘no laughing matter’ as comedians team up with researchers to tackle stigma
19 October 2020
Patient experience Policy & health systems
Building on recent research highlighting the unmet social care needs of adults with Tourette’s, academics from Bath and Oxford are teaming up with comedians with the condition to challenge the stereotypes and stigma that exist.
GP gut feelings may have a role in cancer diagnosis
25 August 2020
Patient experience Policy & health systems
The study highlights the art of General Practice - GPs can pick up a lot from the way patients behave.
COPD patients' quality of life improved by socialising and regular exercise
6 July 2018
Patient experience Research methods & EBM
Regular contact with healthcare professionals, support from peers and engaging in organised exercise could help people with chronic lung conditions to lead more active - and generally better lives, according to new research.
Support for parents losing a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy
15 June 2018
A new, free information resource is launched to improve support for parents losing a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy.
'Kidney age', not kidney disease
3 April 2018
Cardiovascular & metabolic Patient experience Research methods & EBM
There should be a rethink in how doctors talk to some patients with reduced kidney health, replacing the term ‘chronic kidney disease’ (CKD) with different bands of kidney age, according to an Oxford-led group of researchers writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Welcome to our new DPhil students
19 October 2017
Infection & acute care Patient experience Research methods & EBM Teaching
Kome Gbinigie and Clare Goyder are amongst the first students funded by the Wellcome PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians. Tonny Muthee joins us on a Rhodes Scholarship, and Georgia Richards is the Naji Foundation's first Scholar.
Technology should be used to boost empathy-based medicine
28 June 2017
Digital health & innovation Health Services Research Health behaviours Patient experience
Existing digital technologies must be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than the therapeutic benefits of empathy.
Soups, smartphones and supermarket shopping
22 September 2016
Awards & appointments Cardiovascular & metabolic Health behaviours Patient experience
Obesity studies are among six new departmental projects to be funded by the NIHR CLAHRC Oxford.
Recognition of Distinction 2016
30 August 2016
Awards & appointments Clinical trials Patient experience
Congratulations to Ly-Mee Yu and Lisa Hinton.
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