Women who are overweight and conceive by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) are twice as likely to develop gestational diabetes – making losing...

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

The Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) have responded to the findings of an important...

New research by Professor Robert Read into the development of Salmonella food poisoning has revealed how the bacteria get inside and...

Our researchers are pioneering the use of a nose drop containing a type of ‘friendly’ bacteria that could help prevent meningitis and...

Southampton will lead a nationwide trial of a treatment approach that could improve survival from emergency bowel surgery by guiding the...

Data scientists have used clinical data to help predict how the incurable neurological condition amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) will...

For centuries the Sherpa peoples of the Himalayas have lived in air so thin in oxygen that lowlanders find every breath difficult – now...

Southampton researchers are working with the University of Cambridge to trial a revolutionary ‘artificial pancreas’ device that could...

Researchers from the NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit have seen promising results from a new treatment for the...

A quick-acting test for flu and other viral infections could help fight the rise in antibiotic resistant ‘superbugs’ and ensure patients...

Southampton researchers have compared two types of defibrillator and identified the best at resetting the heart’s natural rhythm in...

Asian women with a lower vitamin B12 status have been found to be more at risk of gestational diabetes, raising the possibility that...

A new study aims to improve heart attack test accuracy, by analysing routine blood tests from 20,000 patients at University Hospital...

10 years on from the first Xtreme Everest expedition, Southampton’s Prof Mike Grocott and colleagues from University College London and...