GW4 celebrates successful £7m Wellcome Trust bid for PhD programme for health professionals
The GW4 Alliance is set to launch a new PhD programme for health professionals after receiving a £7m grant from the Wellcome Trust.
Bristol Medical School
Governments urged to act now to prevent coronavirus suicide risk
Governments need to give 'urgent consideration' to their public health response to prevent any possible impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the number of suicides, experts warn.
The 24 year old fixing the ‘toxic’ student rental market
A former Bristol student bent on fixing the 'toxic' student rental market now employs 10 people and is closing in on £500,000 of funding.
Users of high-potency cannabis four times more likely to report associated problems
Users of high-potency cannabis are four times more likely to report associated problems, and twice as likely to report anxiety disorder, than users of lower-potency strains, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
Bristol medical students to qualify this week to enable them to support NHS in COVID-19 crisis
More than 220 final year medical students from the University of Bristol will qualify early this week to enable them to work as doctors in the NHS during the COVID-19 crisis.
New vaccine platform used to develop COVID-19 candidates
The University of Bristol and spin-out company Imophoron have announced they are ready to test COVID-19 vaccine candidates in a pre-clinical programme.
Calculating early warning scores before they reach hospital can help the sickest patients
Recording National Early Warning Scores (NEWS) when a patient is urgently referred to hospital can improve the process of care for the sickest patients and reduce the time taken to get to hospital, according to a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded study at the University of Bristol published in the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) today [7 April]. National Early Warning Scores help clinicians recognise when patients are at risk of deterioration, for example as a result of infection such as sepsis.
Insect wings hold antimicrobial clues for improved medical implants
Some insect wings such as cicada and dragonfly possess nanopillar structures that kill bacteria upon contact. However, to date, the precise mechanisms that cause bacterial death have been unknown.
Researchers set to begin new phase of COVID-19 vaccine trials
Researchers at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT), University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) and the University of Bristol are set to begin a new phase of trials of a vaccine pioneered in the UK which could protect against COVID-19.
Child mortality has risen since pandemic, new study shows
While child deaths in England fell temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, they have now risen to new heights, a new study from researchers at the University of Bristol and based on unique National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) data has found.