Monthly Archives: October 2019
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30 October 2019
CAR-T success for UHB patient
A patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) has become the first in the Midlands to have a successful CAR-T cell therapy, for treatment of her cancer. Sophie Wheldon, aged 21, was diagnosed with…
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18 October 2019
Widely-available drug could reduce deaths from head injury
A low cost and widely available drug could reduce deaths in traumatic brain injury patients by as much as 20 per cent depending on the severity of injury, according to a major study carried out…
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01 October 2019
£9 million NIHR ARC West Midlands begins research into demands on region’s health services
A research centre that brings together leading expertise from the West Midlands to address some of the most demanding pressures on health services in the region launches today. The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West…