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Team awarded £14,000 for PCD research
A Southampton team has been awarded the Team Research Award for research into nutrition in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia...
Jul 19, 2016


Better diagnosis for PCD patients
Southampton researchers have developed a new clinical tool to diagnose the rare disease primary ciliary dyskinesia, enabling more...
Jun 15, 2016


Underground's black snot harmful to lungs
If you’ve ever blown your nose at an underground station, you’ll be familiar with the black dust it harbours. New research from our BRU...
Jun 15, 2016


Cough trial could give first drug in 50 years
In a UK-wide clinical trial, our NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit is testing a promising new drug for a chronic cough, as a key...
Jun 15, 2016


Surgeons trial new drug to help brain haemorrhage patients
Surgeons in Southampton are trialling a new drug based on a chemical antioxidant found in broccoli to improve outcomes for brain...
Jun 8, 2016


AstraZeneca strikes partnership with WISH lab
Our state-of-the-art Wessex Investigational Sciences Hub (WISH) laboratory has joined forces with AstraZeneca to investigate new ways to...
Apr 25, 2016


New ultrasound technology for cleaning teeth
A new technology, using water treated with high-frequency sound waves, could help fight debilitating lung infections in conditions like...
Apr 21, 2016


Advanced 3D imaging for deadly lung disease
Southampton researchers have used a new 3D x-ray imaging technique for the first time to better understand idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
Apr 21, 2016
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