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30 July 2020
The NIHR-funded FEMME trial, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, compared two competing treatments which allow fertility for symptomatic uterine fibroids, to see which option best reduced symptoms and improved the patient’s quality of life.
30 July 2020
The National Institute for Health Research has today reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to transparency by supporting the Health Research Authority’s new transparency strategy, which aims to ensure information about health and social care research is made publicly available in a way that benefits patients, researchers and policy makers.
29 July 2020
Six new projects to improve our understanding of the links between COVID-19 and ethnicity have been funded by the NIHR and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
24 July 2020
Researchers have developed an app to investigate if wearable devices and smartphones can help determine how COVID-19 spreads and how the pandemic affects people's mental and physical health.
24 July 2020
Patients with frailty, older age and urinary tract infections (UTIs) are at greatest risk of developing sepsis following infection consultations in primary care, NIHR-funded research finds.
24 July 2020
An NIHR-funded research paper on the use of antibiotics to prevent infection after operative vaginal birth has been named BMJ UK Research Paper of the Year 2020.
20 July 2020
A new NHS service has been launched to help people sign up for information on the new COVID-19 vaccine trials.
20 July 2020
A new experimental vaccine for coronavirus induces strong immune responses in both parts of the immune system and causes few mild side effects, in promising results from a trial funded and supported by the NIHR.
20 July 2020
Synairgen plc has announced positive results from its clinical trial of SNG001, an inhaled formulation of interferon beta, in hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
17 July 2020
A drug licensed to treat stomach bleeding, that some doctors felt was too effective to withhold, does not improve outcome but increases side effects according to the HALT-IT clinical trial results which published in The Lancet.
13 July 2020
A new drug targeting the genetic cause of a rare form of motor neurone disease (MND) has shown encouraging results in early research supported by the NIHR.
08 July 2020
Study shows no statistical difference in live birth and pregnancy rates in women under 38 who had endometrial scratch before first IVF or ICSI (intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection) treatment compared to those who only received conventional treatment.
07 July 2020
New guidance from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) sets out the process by which non-NHS organisations that have loaned/redeployed research staff to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic can recover the cost.
05 July 2020
The Health and Social Care Secretary has announced the launch of a major £8.4 million research study into the long-term health effects of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients, which has been funded by the NIHR and UK Research and Innovation.
05 July 2020
Premature babies with serious brain haemorrhage treated with a novel surgical technique were twice as likely to survive without severe learning disability 10 years later, when compared with infants given standard treatment, NIHR-funded research finds.
03 July 2020
The NIHR supported Vivaldi study has today published data from a large scale survey which looked at coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in care homes providing care for dementia patients and the elderly in England.
03 July 2020
An update on the implementation of the Restart Framework including latest data and key learnings
01 July 2020
Read the latest performance figures for the NIHR Clinical Research Network for 2019/2020
30 June 2020
The research team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, led by Dr Manu Shankar-Hari, has recruited the world’s first patient to the ILIAD-7 trial sponsored by RevImmune Inc.
29 June 2020
A review of published research on COVID-19 antibody tests show that the tests are most effective at detecting whether someone has had the disease two or more weeks after their symptoms started.
24 June 2020
New research from the NIHR BioResource has demonstrated that sequencing whole genomes for patients with rare diseases can improve their diagnosis and care.
24 June 2020
Testing for coronavirus infection could become quicker, more convenient and more accurate, following the launch of a multicentre national programme of research that will evaluate how new diagnostic tests perform in different health and care settings.
23 June 2020
New research funded by NIHR could help to protect people most at risk from COVID-19, by developing a new way to predict who should be shielding from the virus.
23 June 2020
A new study has been funded to analyse samples from 20,000 people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) to search for genetic differences that may indicate underlying causes or increase the risk of developing the condition.
22 June 2020
A new NIHR funded study suggests COVID-19 patients with extremely high levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their blood are more likely to deteriorate quickly.