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28 July 2020

New NHS service enables people to sign up to be contacted for COVID-19 vaccine studies

Earlier this month, the NHS launched a service helping people across the UK sign up for information on vaccine trials for COVID-19. Developed nationally, the NHS Covid-19 vaccine research registry will help large numbers of people…
20 July 2020

Precision medicine trial highlights the need for a new approach

A pioneering lung cancer study, which has recruited patients at hospitals across the country, including University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), has highlighted important factors that will need to be considered in the next…
20 July 2020

Birmingham to play key role in ground-breaking new study into long-term health impacts of coronavirus

A major UK research study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients has been launched, supported locally by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and other organisations. The PHOSP-COVID study has been…
06 July 2020

QEHB patient one of first in country to receive COVID-19 convalescent plasma

One of the first people to receive COVID-19 convalescent plasma has spoken about their experience and urged people to donate. Ahmed Bhayat, 49, from Handsworth in Birmingham, was one of the first people in the…
24 June 2020

UHB part of globally-leading trial leading to first COVID-19 treatment drug

Dozens of patients across University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust have taken part in the NIHR study RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluaation of COVid-19 thERapY), which has identified the first successful treatment option for some coronavirus patients.…
17 June 2020

Liver perfusion could save 7 in 10 rejected donor livers

A major study investigating the effectiveness of liver perfusion as a technique to improve the function of donor livers that would have otherwise been rejected has shown that up to 7 in every 10 could…
12 June 2020

First drugs announced in major COVID-19 drugs trial

Two UK drugs companies will be the first to partner with the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford as part of a major new UK drugs trial to test potential therapeutics to treat patients hospitalised with…
13 May 2020

Gene study explores varying effect of COVID-19

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) has joined the fight against coronavirus by recruiting COVID-19 patients to participate in a ground-breaking new study of the disease that aims to identify specific genes that may…
13 May 2020

Major COVID-19 drugs trial begins in Birmingham

A trial which will rapidly test new therapies for patients hospitalised due to COVID-19 is opening in Birmingham this week. It is hoped that by using drugs that target the most serious symptoms of the…
21 April 2020

Prioritising COVID-19 Research

UHB are taking part in a number of national trials that are rapidly investigating potential treatments for COVID-19 and improving our knowledge of the virus. Two of these trials, ISARIC and UKOSS, are collecting data…