20 July 2021
Ravita Taheem is a practitioner academic who is undertaking a PhD to address local government policy on tackling childhood obesity, supported by the NIHR and her employer, Southampton City Council.
13 July 2021
An NIHR-funded trial has shown that therapy helps people with dementia achieve everyday goals, and this is being rolled out to health and care providers.
02 July 2021
An evaluation by NIHR-funded researchers of the widely accessed New Medicine Service pharmacy scheme found that it improved patients’ adherence to new medications and resulted in cost savings to the NHS of £558 million.
16 June 2021
A multidisciplinary team of researchers based in Oxford, Tanzania and Uganda are testing novel diagnostic tools and strengthening local capacity to improve early diagnosis of blood cancers called lymphomas, common diseases in children and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa.
15 June 2021
Perinatal stroke is the leading cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Research by NIHR Career Development Fellow Dr Anna Basu shows potential for improving long-term motor outcomes in affected infants through a new approach, early therapy in perinatal stroke (eTIPS).
07 June 2021
Find out why the STAMPEDE trial is a milestone in the history of clinical trial design in the UK.
07 June 2021
How forward-thinking approaches to cancer clinical trials from the last decade have featured in the UK’s fight against COVID-19.
06 June 2021
How our history of cutting-edge cancer research underpinned the UK’s COVID-19 research response.
03 June 2021
Results from a large study on the outcomes of 427 pregnant women and their babies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gave reassurance that pregnant women were at no greater risk of severe illness than other women.
18 May 2021
NIHR-funded researchers show that an internet-based weight-loss programme with brief support from a nurse can help people with obesity lose weight.
06 May 2021
Learn how the NIHR supported the PD-STAT trial to transition to a virtual model during the COVID-19 pandemic.
29 April 2021
A new approach to pre-donation screening was introduced across the whole national blood service as a result of NIHR research, saving around 30,000 people from avoidable anaemia and potential iron deficiency every year.
19 April 2021
NIHR-funded researchers are working with communities on three continents to improve the patient journey and reduce stigma for people with cutaneous leishmaniasis.
12 April 2021
Discover how the NIHR and Enteromed collaborated to deliver the UK’s first fully virtual, commercial, interventional trial for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea (IBS-D).
09 April 2021
Discover how direct engagement with patients, facilitated by the NIHR, has had a positive impact on Servier’s phase II trial design.
06 April 2021
Find out about the NIHR-supported SAVE-D study, which looked at the challenges that South Asians in Greater Manchester faced, when presented with recognising and addressing memory problems and dementia.
06 April 2021
Midwife-led models of continuity of care improve outcomes for pregnant women. Working with hospital trusts, managers and frontline staff has enabled the development of a new care pathway and guidelines to implement it in a sustainable way.
20 March 2021
An online diabetes education tool has been shown to help patients control blood sugar levels and is now being considered for roll out across the country by NHS England.
17 March 2021
Learn how the UK’s Urgent Public Health prioritisation process enabled rapid delivery of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine trial, recruiting over 15,000 participants in two months.
10 March 2021
The aim of the Hospital Wide Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (HoW CGA) project was to inform NHS managers, clinicians, patients and the public about how best to organise hospital services for frail older people.
09 March 2021
NIHR-funded research has developed ‘smart glasses’ that have been developed to improve sight using real-time image enhancement software.
28 February 2021
A treatment for children with a rare form of childhood dementia has made a dramatic difference to their outcomes. The UK arm of the drug trial took place at the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre where today 19 patients receive regular therapy.
12 February 2021
Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC), is a life-long rare autoimmune liver disease affecting more than 15,000 people in the UK. Obeticholic acid had shown potential benefit in patients with PBC, however the dose response, safety and efficacy of obeticholic acid was unknown and POISE trial was designed to provide the evidence to these questions.
28 January 2021
Exercise programmes reduce falls among the over 65s by almost a quarter.
27 January 2021
By switching to a virtual model of patient engagement activities, the NIHR successfully supported Pfizer to gather patient input from psoriasis patients on a proposed phase II trial of a new treatment.
