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The NIHR has committed to drive forward new plans to accelerate transformation across clinical research delivery. The Full government response to the Lord O'Shaughnessy review into commercial clinical trials sets out a clear and renewed ambition to increase the scale, speed and efficiency of clinical trial delivery in the UK, in response to O’Shaughnessy’s independent review in May.
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22 November 2023

Research funded by the NIHR has found that air cleaning technologies designed to make social interactions safer in indoor spaces are not effective.
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21 November 2023

Find out more about the six research leaders have been awarded the flagship NIHR Research Professorship award.
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20 November 2023

The new £42m prostate cancer screening trial will use innovative screening methods and will be co-funded by NIHR and Prostate Cancer UK.
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20 November 2023

NIHR-funded research reveals an estimated 5,500 less children needed decayed teeth pulled out annually under general anaesthetic since the levy began in 2018.
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17 November 2023

Fourteen new centres across England will be established to drive life-changing research into health technologies
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13 November 2023

Researchers at Imperial College London received £1.2 million from the NIHR to help develop a new system, known as Eko DUO.
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10 November 2023

The NIHR is calling on healthcare professionals in the NHS and beyond to shape the future of healthcare and be part of the next generation of researchers.
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06 November 2023

Cognitive decline quickened significantly for people over 50 in the first year of the pandemic, regardless of whether they had COVID-19
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03 November 2023

The findings are part of the ongoing REMAP-CAP trial which is funded and supported by NIHR.
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25 October 2023

The cheap and widely available drug can improve symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in patients seen in GP surgeries.
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17 October 2023

NIHR is partnering with the Motor Neurone Disease Association for five years to provide career development opportunities for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.
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10 October 2023

The NIHR-funded study comparing different models of primary health care provision for people who are homeless is the biggest of its kind in the UK.
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06 October 2023

This NIHR Evidence Collection brings together studies that have investigated breast cancer risk and screening.
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05 October 2023

Research has identified new potential treatments for children with rare genetic conditions.
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04 October 2023

NIHR has funded a new series of awards for communities and researchers to work together to tackle health and care challenges
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28 September 2023

Funding will help place researchers focusing on cancer with leading US cancer research institutions.
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14 September 2023

High levels of two proteins were found in COVID-19 patients who later experienced cognitive problems
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04 September 2023

MRI scans used as a screening test improve prostate cancer diagnosis according to a study supported by NIHR.
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22 August 2023

New research has found that patients who are being offered new surgical procedures are not given enough information about their treatment.
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20 August 2023

NIHR will spend an additional £30 million per year to increase research opportunities for healthcare professionals.
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17 August 2023

Women experiencing mental health issues are at a 50% greater risk of giving birth preterm. That’s according to newly-published research funded by NIHR.
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16 August 2023

E-cigarettes (vapes) may be better than nicotine patches for pregnant women quitting smoking.
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02 August 2023

The Research Programme for Social Care (RPSC) will replace NIHR’s Research for Social Care (RfSC) funding call.

This NIHR Evidence Collection brings together 10 interventions in 5 key areas using Artificial Intelligence technology that could support healthcare professionals