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17 April 2019
UHB senior nurses appointed to prestigious national programme
Two senior nurses at Heartlands Hospital, Liz Lees-Deutsch and Teresa Melody, have been awarded places on a new national programme aiming to develop the number of NHS staff involved in research. The 70@70 NIHR Senior…
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16 April 2019
New immunotherapy treatment for chronic liver disease
A trial which could lead to a ground-breaking new way of treating people with two types of chronic liver disease has been launched, with the first patients taking part at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham,…
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09 April 2019
BHP Research Showcase 2019
The latest health breakthroughs will be on display next month at the annual Birmingham Health Partners Research Showcase, which will be held in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham’s (QEHB) atrium. Exciting developments in the last…
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02 April 2019
Rare Disease Day 2019
28 February marked Rare Diseases Day and the QEHB Centre for Rare Diseases team gathered in the atrium to raise awareness of their work. There are over 6,000 rare diseases in the UK, with one…
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29 March 2019
Healthcare Science Day 2019
Students and schoolchildren from across the West Midlands found out about the range of healthcare science careers at the fourth annual Healthcare Science Day, held in the Atrium of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEHB). The…
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29 March 2019
UHB staff awarded prestigious research Fellowships to improve patient care
Two members of staff at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) will begin their NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF) this month. Supported by the UHB Integrated Clinical Academic Team, Lisa Shepherd and Nicola…
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26 March 2019
UHB is leading UK recruiter to liver trial
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is the joint leading recruiter across the United Kingdom into an international research trial that could change how liver operations are performed worldwide. A team of surgeons, anaesthetists…
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25 March 2019
Could heart drug help lung disease patients?
Drugs traditionally used to treat blood pressure and heart disease are to be given to lung disease patients to see if they can be beneficial, in a trial coordinated by the University of Aberdeen. Chronic…
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12 March 2019
Tom Wride – research and racquets
A 5am training session, a day in the office auditing clinical trials at UHB and then an evening session in the gym is the sort of regime and discipline that has taken Tom Wride to…
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12 March 2019
NIHR SRMRC Holds Research Showcase alongside UoB’s Launch of New Centre for Trauma Sciences Research
The launch of the University of Birmingham’s (UoB) new Centre for Trauma Sciences (CTSR) took place on 26th March and was combined with the exciting Show and Tell event for the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology…