Southampton researchers are testing a prototype of a personal respirator they have developed for frontline healthcare staff tackling the...

Prof Tom Wilkinson’s research group has renewed a long-standing collaboration with AstraZeneca to understand the mechanisms driving the...

Southampton’s Breathing Retraining for Asthma Trial of Home Exercises for Teenagers (BREATHE4T) study is assessing the use of an online...

Southampton consultant anaesthetist and researcher Professor Mike Grocott is taking on the 2020 London Marathon, raising money to train...

Southampton researchers have found boosting a key part of the body’s immune system has the potential to prevent viral infections in...

A new vaccine could protect patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) against lung infections that worsen their...

Researchers in the UK and Europe have discovered the bacteria which causes whooping cough can “lurk silently” in the noses and throats of...

Doctors in Southampton are leading a world-first trial of a new nose drop containing a type of modified ‘friendly’ bacteria that could...

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...

An NIHR funded ‘soft’ laser therapy pioneered in the UK by doctors in Southampton to help prevent side effects in patients receiving...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new digital way of analysing X-ray images of lungs that could herald a...

Clinical trials couldn’t take place without people volunteering to take part. All doctors depend on volunteers to better understand the...

Researchers in Southampton are studying the timeline of lung disease in a younger smoking population to better understand how and when it...

In March we (the Wessex Public Involvement Network - #WessexPIN) organised an ‘Exploring the Impact of Public Involvement’ workshop....

Looking at how tuberculosis (TB) bacteria interacts with our immune system, researchers in Southampton believe a more effective vaccine...

Our critical care research team has been awarded £2.3 million for a new scheme providing pre-surgery exercise sessions for cancer...

Pairing antibiotics with a drug that helps break down bacterial defences could make them more effective against hard-to-treat infections...

Southampton research has shown that nitric oxide can greatly improve the effects of antibiotics in tackling the chronic lung infections...

Two million people in the UK are estimated to have undiagnosed COPD, a debilitating lung disease. New research has pinpointed the...

Patients with lung conditions are prone to infections that can be hard to treat with antibiotics. Now researchers have found a drug that...