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\n \n 29 September 2022\n \n
\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n Awards & appointments\n \n \n \n \n COVID-19\n \n \n \n \n Clinical trials\n \n \n\n \n\n\n
\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n 22 September 2022\n \n
\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n Cardiovascular & metabolic\n \n \n \n \n Health Services Research\n \n \n\n \n\n\n
\n \n\n \n \n \nAround 15% of people aged 40-75 may have a form of undiagnosed high blood pressure (hypertension) that occurs only at night-time. Because they do not know about this, and therefore are not being treated for it, they are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease such as stroke, heart failure, and even death, suggests new research from the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n\n \n 8 September 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNuffield Department of Primary Health Care Science-based researcher, Bakita Kasadha, was interviewed on a recent BBC Sounds series about people\u2019s lived experiences of HIV in the UK over the last 40 years.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 September 2022\n \n
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nEurope\u2019s BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, with the Neasden Temple, one of the largest Hindu temples outside of India, has opened a new community health hub in west London. Following their continued support of the PANORAMIC and PRINCIPLE trials, the temple\u2019s interactive health hub will engage visitors around health awareness and wellbeing.
\n \n\n\n \n 9 August 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research, led by researchers at the universities of Oxford and Aberdeen, highlights a new way of assessing the environmental impacts of supermarket food. It finds that plant-based foods have the lowest environmental impacts and that more nutritious foods are often more sustainable.
\n \n\n\n \n 8 August 2022\n \n
\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n Diet, Data and Interventions\n \n \n\n \n\n\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe joint guideline from the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI) and the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) provides a clear strategy for the use of FIT in the colorectal cancer diagnostic pathway.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWeight loss is a sign of undiagnosed cancer regardless of the interval over which it occurs.
\n \n\n\n \n 27 July 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew research from Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences researchers, including DPhil student Melissa Little, has found that the number of children aged 8-17 reporting weight loss attempts has increased over the last decade. The researchers also identified key characteristics linked to an increased likelihood of weight loss attempts.
\n \n\n\n \n 1 July 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTwo doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are effective against severe disease for people who are underweight, overweight, or who have obesity, finds new research published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, led by researchers at the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n\n \n 29 June 2022\n \n
\n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n Cancer\n \n \n \n \n QResearch\n \n \n\n \n\n\n
\n \n\n \n \n \nBody mass index, blood tests, comorbidities and medication use are temporally associated with cancer risk in the three years before a pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
\n \n\n\n \n 28 June 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) and the RCGP Scientific Foundation Board (SFB) award two departmental members for their contribution: Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. Oliver van Hecke, receives SAPC/RCGP award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher 2022, and undergraduate medical student, Hettie Davies, receives the SAPC Medical Student Essay Prize 2022.
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\n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \nA new \u00a3265,000 study by researchers at the Universities of Stirling, Kent and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, is seeking to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected health visiting services across the UK, with a view to improving them in the future.
\n \n\n\n \n 31 May 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nToday, Tuesday 31 May, is World No Tobacco Day \u2013 an annual event aimed to raise awareness of the harms caused by tobacco products to people, public health, communities and the environment; claiming the lives of over 8 million people every year. This years\u2019 theme is 'Protect the environment'.
\n \n\n\n \n 17 May 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nClinical Trials Day gives us an opportunity to reflect on, and appreciate, recent achievements and the people who have made these achievements possible. So, this year we want to say a big thank you to everyone involved, \u201cwe couldn\u2019t do it without you\u201d.
\n \n\n\n \n 16 May 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe PRINCIPLE Trial has led the way in evaluating treatments for COVID-19 in the community over the last two years.
\n \n\n\n \n 12 May 2022\n \n
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