Pregnant women needed for COVID-19 vaccine study in Southampton
Pregnant women in Southampton are being invited to take part in a COVID-19 vaccine study. Preg-CoV is the UK’s largest clinical study to...
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- Sep 3, 2021
Southampton to help tackle long COVID impacts on the brain
Southampton is set to collaborate on a study of brain function in long COVID. Led by University College London (UCL), it's one of 15...
- Aug 26, 2021
People of Southampton step up to deliver COVID-19 vaccine booster study
Over 200 people from Southampton joined the national COV-BOOST study. That makes the city one of the biggest contributors to this vital...
- Aug 25, 2021
New study into COVID-19 vaccine dose interval for pregnant women launches in Southampton
The country’s largest clinical study investigating the best gap between first and second COVID-19 vaccine doses for pregnant women is...
- Aug 24, 2021
New insights into extremely rare COVID-19 vaccine-related blood clots
Southampton has contributed to new research into extremely rare blood clots appearing after COVID-19 vaccination. The findings point the...
- Jun 10, 2021
Lab tests show Southampton antiviral effective against COVID-19 variants
Lab tests have shown a promising antiviral treatment to be effective against the Alpha and Beta COVID-19 variants. Southampton-led...
- May 20, 2021
Southampton leads world-first COVID-19 vaccine booster study
Volunteers from Southampton, Portsmouth and Bournemouth will soon be able to receive a third ‘booster’ COVID-19 vaccine through a new...
- May 19, 2021
First COVID-19 vaccine study for pregnant women launches in Southampton
The first COVID-19 vaccine study in the UK recruiting pregnant women has been launched across several National Institute of Health...
- May 7, 2021
One third of patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19 still have lung changes after a year
A new study has shown that most patients discharged from hospital after experiencing severe COVID-19 infection appear to return to full...
- Apr 28, 2021
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 26, 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 9, 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...
- Mar 19, 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 12, 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...
- Feb 12, 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 5, 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 4, 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...
- Jan 20, 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 18, 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...
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