21 January 2021
A high number of NHS staff injuries caused by slips and falls in the workplace could be prevented if staff were recommended to wear ultra-grip shoes as part of their uniform, according to NIHR-funded research.
20 January 2021
New research has provided important insights into the role played by the immune system in preventing – and in some cases increasing the severity of – COVID-19 symptoms. These findings could potentially be used to predict the severity of a patient’s disease and may have major implications as to how the disease needs to be managed.
18 January 2021
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) has appointed Dr Kate Jones as the new national Research Delivery Director.
18 January 2021
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network is delighted to announce the winners of the research awards run in partnership with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM).
18 January 2021
Two flagship, NIHR-supported studies - REMAP-CAP and RECOVERY - have found no evidence of benefit from convalescent plasma as a treatment for hospitalised patients with COVID-19.
11 January 2021
The number of people seeking help for mental illness or self-harm during April 2020, while the UK was in full lockdown, dropped by more than a third, according to NIHR-funded research.
09 January 2021
Researchers have developed a new risk stratification tool that can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19.
08 January 2021
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has today published its analysis of the way the Government has received, and applied, scientific evidence and advice during the first period of the coronavirus pandemic.
30 December 2020
The Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca for people in the UK.
29 December 2020
A study led by NIHR-funded researchers investigating ways to reduce the impacts of gambling-related harms are today published in the Lancet
25 December 2020
The world’s first participant in a new antibody treatment study to protect against COVID-19 has been recruited at the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust.
22 December 2020
Three clinical trial platforms working together to test the effects of full doses of anticoagulants (blood thinners) in COVID-19 patients have paused enrollment for one group of patients.
21 December 2020
People who experience symptoms of depression are more likely to develop heart disease or suffer a stroke than those who have good mental health, according to research supported by the NIHR.
19 December 2020
The NIHR has published data on participation in COVID-19 urgent public health research by ethnicity - highlighting the importance of people of all ethnicities being represented in studies.
15 December 2020
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has announced its latest cohort of NIHR Research Professors and NIHR Global Research Professors.
14 December 2020
The NIHR-supported RECOVERY trial has found no clinical benefit from the antibiotic azithromycin for hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19.
11 December 2020
Researchers supported by NIHR have identified potential treatments for Covid-19 after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease.
08 December 2020
Ethnic minority healthcare workers are more likely to have built up antibodies to COVID-19, a team of NIHR-supported researchers have found.
05 December 2020
Over six hundred thousand participants have now taken part in NIHR-supported urgent public health research into Covid-19, in just over eight months.
01 December 2020
Community nurses from across the nation, led by a group of NIHR 70@70 senior nurse research leaders, are launching a new project to give patients, carers and healthcare professionals the opportunity to have their say about the future of community nursing research.
30 November 2020
The NIHR-supported Novavax Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial has achieved its recruitment target just two months after opening in the UK - with 15,203 volunteers from across the country recruited in record time.
26 November 2020
NIHR responds to the announcement by the Chancellor of £1.3 billion to continue the 'world-leading' work of the NIHR and Genomics England.
25 November 2020
A collaboration between one of the NIHR’s new National Patient Recruitment Centres and Enteromed has led to rapid recruitment to one of the first fully virtual interventional clinical trials conducted in England.
23 November 2020
The NIHR-funded and supported ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019 vaccine, developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, is effective at preventing COVID-19 and offers a high level of protection, according to international research in more than 24,000 participants.
23 November 2020
A UK study participant is the first in the world to receive a new COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, developed by AstraZeneca.