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Tetris … and other surprising ways to help emergency workers cope with trauma
The Conversation
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UK Trebles Funding To Tackle Zika Virus
News
Adoptive Cell Therapy Project Gains EIT Gold Grant Award
News
An innovative adoptive cell therapy that may treat cancer has garnered Johannes Breuning from Marion H Brown’s group a gold grant award in the EIT health Doctoral Transition Innovation Fellowship competition in London on 8 September 20
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Poorer patients less likely to get hip replacements
News
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Improving rheumatological care in Oxford and beyond
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Professor Peter Taylor’s group brings unique insights into the causes of inflammatory arthritis and osteoarthritis with unrivalled expertise in obtaining information from human tissue leading to identification of potential new treatments for these conditions.
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Everything you need to know about chickenpox and why more countries don’t use the vaccine
The Conversation
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UK still using ineffective compulsory treatment for people with mental illness
The Conversation
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Why Mark Zuckerberg was right to vaccinate his daughter
The Conversation
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Take an online DNA test and you could be revealing far more than you realise
The Conversation
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Antimatter changed physics, and the discovery of antimemories could revolutionise neuroscience
The Conversation
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Smoothly does it: Structural insights into an unusual G-protein coupled receptor
News
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Three-parent baby raises issues of long-term health risks
The Conversation
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Rehabilitation in Oxford
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With approximately 9.6 million adults in England with musculoskeletal conditions, such as back pain or arthritis and a cost to the UK economy of around £7.4 billion a year through lost working days, it is essential we deliver evidence-based treatments which benefit these patients. Led by Professor Sallie Lamb at the Centre for Rehabilitation Research in Oxford (part of NDORMS), the Rehabilitation group focuses predominantly on rehabilitation for people with a range of chronic and acute musculoskeletal conditions and injuries, spanning children to older adults.
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What is meningitis B – and why don’t older children get the vaccine?
The Conversation
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Brainjacking – a new cyber-security threat
The Conversation
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Why doing good can do you good
The Conversation
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The ‘beating heart’ of the flu virus – and why scientists want to commandeer it
The Conversation
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Warning: dietary supplements could seriously mess with your medication
The Conversation
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Here’s how genetics helped crack the history of human migration
The Conversation
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Rejection of sugar tax is based on faulty logic about the poor
The Conversation
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