Monday, April 29, 2024

Common asthma treatment reduces need for hospitalisation in COVID-19 patients, study suggests

The STOIC study found that inhaled budesonide given to patients with COVID-19 within seven days of the onset of symptoms also reduced recovery time.

On a mission: Innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems

OXGAV will support the research and development of exceptionally-promising innovations by interdisciplinary scientists across a dozen departments at Oxford and will enable the outputs...

3Q: Looking back at MIT’s fall semester Covid-19 testing

Suzanne Blake of MIT Emergency Management analyzes the results from the program, which administered more than 250,000 tests last semester.

New machine learning system developed to identify deteriorating patients in hospital

The HAVEN system (Hospital-wide Alerting Via Electronic Noticeboard) was developed as part of a collaboration between the University of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering and...

Detecting functional changes at the proteome level

ETH researchers have drastically improved existing proteomics techniques so they can capture all functional alterations in proteins.

Oxford coronavirus vaccine produces strong immune response in older adults

The ChAdOx1 nCov-2019 coronavirus vaccine, developed by teams at the University of Oxford, has been shown to trigger a robust immune response in healthy adults aged 56-69 and those over 70 years of age.

Building equity into vaccine distribution

Who gets priority? If the pandemic is hitting certain communities harder, can they be adequately supplied with vaccine doses?

A blended educational model for budding business leaders

Today’s world is undergoing momentous changes, and managers are required to be able to grasp the profound nature of change, to anticipate scenarios.

Affordability and efficiency is the future of healthcare

COVID has highlighted the differences in healthcare affordability across the globe, with a glimpse into what the future of medicine could look like if we don’t act.

More than 900,000 UK small businesses ‘at risk’ of failing by early April

A major wave of bankruptcies for UK firms looms as many current business support programmes expire at the end of March and April, according to research published...
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