NIHR has funded a new series of awards for communities and researchers to work together to tackle health and care challenges
Professor Lucy Chappell met with research teams working on two pioneering and related NIHR Global Health Research projects in maternal and newborn health.
On World Contraception Day 2023, a study funded by the NIHR shows that engaging boys and addressing masculinities is key to positive sex education and is successful in helping to prevent unintended pregnancy.
NIHR has launched a new Outcomes Framework. The framework is a statement of intended outcomes and a tool for tracking and learning from progress.
A group of leading research funders agreed that generative AI tools must not be used in peer-reviewing grant applications.
NIHR funded research finds that there is no sign that e-cigarettes promote smoking.
NIHR is partnering with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to launch a new £30 million funding programme. The expectation is that research funded through this call, will support the UK in its transition to net zero.
A newly-published report reveals over £1.1 billion has been invested by Government and charities over a five-year-period.
Every year, the CRN asks thousands of research participants to share their experiences of taking part in research by taking part in the Participant in Research Experience Survey (PRES). More participants shared their experiences of taking part in research than ever before.
Professor Munro has previously served as Chair of the North West Regional Advisory Committee for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.
Funding will help place researchers focusing on cancer with leading US cancer research institutions.
The research will determine whether using artificial intelligence (AI) to spare the top of the heart during radiotherapy can help patients live longer.
High levels of two proteins were found in COVID-19 patients who later experienced cognitive problems
Data from the financial year 2022-23 shows that the national Patient Recruitment Centres (PRCs) exceed their study set-up and recruitment ambitions and continue to achieve positive participant experience.
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found limitations of clopidogrel in treating different ancestral groups.
Women with ME/CFS tend to have more symptoms and co-occurring conditions than men. This is according to initial results from the world’s largest study of the disease.
MRI scans used as a screening test improve prostate cancer diagnosis according to a study supported by NIHR.
The researchers hope this new technique could eventually offer a way to pre-screen people who might be at risk of the disease.
New research has found that patients who are being offered new surgical procedures are not given enough information about their treatment.
NIHR will spend an additional £30 million per year to increase research opportunities for healthcare professionals.
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.
The NIHR and the UK Research and Innovation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are investing £25m to fund ambitious new research to improve the lives of people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC).
E-cigarettes (vapes) may be better than nicotine patches for pregnant women quitting smoking.
NIHR has awarded over £100 million to 20 new Policy Research Units (PRUs) across England to tackle important emerging health and social care issues including reproductive health, addiction and dementia.
The Research Programme for Social Care (RPSC) will replace NIHR’s Research for Social Care (RfSC) funding call.
