Southampton team developing prototype protective equipment for frontline healthcare staff
Southampton researchers are testing a prototype of a personal respirator they have developed for frontline healthcare staff tackling the...
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- Mar 9, 2020
Southampton scientists renew strategic collaboration with AstraZeneca
Prof Tom Wilkinson’s research group has renewed a long-standing collaboration with AstraZeneca to understand the mechanisms driving the...
- Feb 7, 2020
Teenagers driving trial of mobile-based asthma support
Southampton’s Breathing Retraining for Asthma Trial of Home Exercises for Teenagers (BREATHE4T) study is assessing the use of an online...
- Jan 29, 2020
Doctor's marathon challenge to boost medical training in Africa
Southampton consultant anaesthetist and researcher Professor Mike Grocott is taking on the 2020 London Marathon, raising money to train...
- Dec 18, 2019
Anti-viral treatment has potential to protect lung disease patients
Southampton researchers have found boosting a key part of the body’s immune system has the potential to prevent viral infections in...
- Oct 30, 2019
Southampton researchers trial new vaccine to fight lung disease and save more lives
A new vaccine could protect patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) against lung infections that worsen their...
- Oct 23, 2019
Researchers find whooping cough bacteria "lurks silently" in healthy people
Researchers in the UK and Europe have discovered the bacteria which causes whooping cough can “lurk silently” in the noses and throats of...
- Nov 27, 2018
Southampton doctors in world-first trial of new nose drop to fight meningitis
Doctors in Southampton are leading a world-first trial of a new nose drop containing a type of modified ‘friendly’ bacteria that could...
- Nov 17, 2018
Researchers develop an app to predict the risk of asthma in children
Researchers in Southampton and the US have created an app that can predict a child’s risk of asthma through six simple yes or no...
- Jul 13, 2018
Southampton's 'soft' laser therapy for cancer patients could be offered nationwide
An NIHR funded ‘soft’ laser therapy pioneered in the UK by doctors in Southampton to help prevent side effects in patients receiving...
- Jun 25, 2018
Using mathematics to assess lung function
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new digital way of analysing X-ray images of lungs that could herald a...
- May 16, 2018
Southampton researchers look at why people choose not to take part in clinical trials
Clinical trials couldn’t take place without people volunteering to take part. All doctors depend on volunteers to better understand the...
- May 16, 2018
Researchers looking to recruit young smokers to better understand lung disease
Researchers in Southampton are studying the timeline of lung disease in a younger smoking population to better understand how and when it...
- Apr 13, 2018
Exploring the impact of public involvement
In March we (the Wessex Public Involvement Network - #WessexPIN) organised an ‘Exploring the Impact of Public Involvement’ workshop....
- Feb 5, 2018
Training our immune system to fight TB
Looking at how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria interacts with our immune system, researchers in Southampton believe a more effective vaccine...
- Nov 22, 2017
Pioneering exercise programme to aid cancer patients
Our critical care research team has been awarded £2.3 million for a new scheme providing pre-surgery exercise sessions for cancer...
- Nov 22, 2017
Drug boosts antibiotic treatment for rare lung disease
Pairing antibiotics with a drug that helps break down bacterial defences could make them more effective against hard-to-treat infections...
- Oct 5, 2017
Drug helps cystic fibrosis patients battle lung infections
Southampton research has shown that nitric oxide can greatly improve the effects of antibiotics in tackling the chronic lung infections...
- Oct 5, 2017
Early diagnosis could help millions with undiagnosed lung disease
Two million people in the UK are estimated to have undiagnosed COPD, a debilitating lung disease. New research has pinpointed the...
- Aug 17, 2017
Drug improves antibiotic treatment of lung infection
Patients with lung conditions are prone to infections that can be hard to treat with antibiotics. Now researchers have found a drug that...
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