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New study shows ivermectin lacks meaningful benefits in COVID-19 treatment

COVID-19 Clinical trials

Athena Swan Gold Award Success for NDPCHS

Athena SWAN Awards & appointments

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Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh OBE appointed as next Nuffield Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Head of Department, NDPCHS, University of Oxford

Awards & appointments

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Doctors' communication style can boost patients' weight loss success, first-of-its-kind study reveals

Diet, Data and Interventions Health behaviours

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Home tests for colorectal cancer could prioritise patients for referral

Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

Non-invasive home-based tests that detect blood in patient stool samples offer an accurate and appropriate triaging method for GPs, finds research led by University of Oxford researchers.

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Probiotics do not reduce antibiotic prescribing in care home residents, shows study

Clinical trials Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

There is no evidence to suggest a daily combination of probiotics reduces the need for antibiotics to treat acute infections in care home residents, finds a study led by Oxford University researchers published in JAMA.

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QResearch database researchers collaborate on two major cancer projects

Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

Researchers in the Primary Care Epidemiology Group are joining two landmark projects to combine healthcare data and artificial intelligence to improve cancer diagnosis

CEBM launches Open Evidence Reviews

Providing timely updates of the evidence on particular aspects of COVID-19 in real-time.

Professor Kamal R. Mahtani awarded John Fry Award

Awards & appointments Research methods & EBM

The RCGP’s award for promoting the discipline of general practice through research and publishing goes to the CEBM’s Deputy Director

Oxford co-leads diagnostics platform to accelerate COVID-19 tests into real-world use

COVID-19 Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

National guidelines on methotrexate prescribing continue to be breached

Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

In only a minority of cases, national guidelines on tablet strength designed to avoid accidental methotrexate overdose are breached.

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Oxford leads development of risk prediction model for smarter COVID-19 shielding advice

COVID-19 Digital health & innovation Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care QResearch

With funding from the Health Foundation, Professor Trish Greenhalgh and colleagues are to set up and evaluate a virtual consultation unit with Barts Health NHS Trust.

'Remote-by-Default Care' project launches

COVID-19 Health Services Research Patient experience

Communication skills teaching innovation praised in national award scheme

Teaching

The new teaching package aims to give students greater confidence and experience when consulting with patients who live with psychiatric illness.

Less is more? Deprescribing blood pressure lowering medications is safe in the short-term in older people with frailty and multiple long-term conditions

Cardiovascular & metabolic Clinical trials

The role of paramedics in primary care may be innovative, but requires a stronger evidence base

Health Services Research Policy & health systems

Sociodemographic factors associated with a positive test for COVID-19 in primary care

COVID-19 Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

Professor Andrew Farmer appointed as NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme Director

Awards & appointments

COVID-19 drugs trial rolled out across UK homes and communities

COVID-19 Clinical trials Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

Risk factors for COVID-19 death revealed in world’s largest analysis of patient records to date

COVID-19 Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

The Bodleian Library selects Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service for archiving

COVID-19 Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care Research methods & EBM

National priority COVID-19 trial recruits first patients

COVID-19 Clinical trials Global perspective Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

Researchers from Oxford University are now enrolling participants into the first clinical trial of potential COVID-19 treatments to take place in GP practices.

Oxford researchers inform rapid COVID-19 NICE guidance

COVID-19 Global perspective Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care Research methods & EBM

Researchers from University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences have played a key role in developing rapid guidance on managing suspected or confirmed pneumonia in adults in the community.

Use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 based on poor evidence

COVID-19 Global perspective Infection, Respiratory and Acute Care

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