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Volunteers needed for latest UK COVID-19 vaccine study launched in Southampton
Volunteers from the Southampton area are being asked to sign up to the latest COVID-19 vaccine study to be rolled out across the UK. The...
Apr 28, 2021


First study into prevalence of COVID-19 symptoms amongst high-risk children
Children with weakened immune systems have not shown a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection despite commonly displaying...
Apr 26, 2021


Drug trial seeks volunteers with COVID-19 symptoms
Researchers at University Hospital Southampton are looking for volunteers with COVID-19 symptoms to take part in a new trial of a...
Apr 26, 2021


9 in 10 respond to Valneva COVID-19 vaccine in early trials
Valneva’s inactivated whole virus COVID-19 vaccine is scheduled to enter large scale trials later this month after it was shown to be...
Apr 9, 2021


Helping teens develop their own answers to the coronavirus lockdown
Southampton researchers have opened a study working with young people to better understand how COVID-19 restrictions are affecting them...
Apr 6, 2021


Study aims to optimise care for those hospitalised with COVID-19
Southampton nurses part of the national COVID-NURSE study will assess new approaches to caring for COVID-19 patients, to inform new...
Mar 19, 2021


First arm of ACCORD clinical trial platform completes patient recruitment
ACCORD – a Phase 2, clinical trial platform designed to rapidly test candidate drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 – has completed...
Mar 12, 2021


Southampton joins new collaboration to boost cancer research
NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre cancer researchers have joined experts across the country in a new collaboration to more...
Feb 26, 2021


COVID-19 human challenge trial seeks young healthy volunteers
Southampton is set to be part of a trial aiming to infect and closely monitor up to 90 low-risk healthy volunteers to better understand...
Feb 19, 2021


Patients who attended 'surgery school' plan to adopt a healthier lifestyle
A pioneering ‘surgery school’ initiative developed by Southampton doctors has been shown to motivate patients to adopt healthier habits –...
Feb 12, 2021


Janssen single-dose vaccine 66% effective against COVID-19
A single dose of the Janssen coronavirus vaccine has been shown to protect 66% from infection and 100% protection from hospitalisation or...
Feb 5, 2021


Call for Southampton over 50s to be part of coronavirus vaccine dose gap study
Southampton doctors are calling for volunteers over the age of 50 to take part in a study looking at the impact of varying the time...
Feb 4, 2021


UHS research team supports world's largest COVID-19 treatment trial
The research team at UHS is supporting the delivery of the world’s largest trial into treatments for patients hospitalised with COVID-19....
Jan 20, 2021


Southampton COVID-19 drug enters large scale trials
COVID-19 therapy inhaled interferon beta has entered into large-scale international trials, following early phase results indicating it...
Jan 18, 2021


Record enrolment of Southampton ICU patients helps find two more drugs for critical COVID-19 patient
Risk of death in critically ill patients is reduced by two anti-inflammatory drugs, according to new results from a global trial...
Jan 15, 2021
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