4Vote!
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- ChemoCentryx, Inc., announced today that Phase II/III clinical data from the Company's PROTECT-1 (the Prospective Randomized Oral Therapy Evaluation in Crohn's disease Trial) of Traficet-EN(TM) (CCX282-B) in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease demonstrated clinical efficacy with a favorable safety and tolerability profile. The study demonstrated...
4Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Military personnel, civic leaders and residents line streets of Wootton Bassett The body of one of the army's most respected explosives experts, who was killed while defusing an improvised bomb in Afghanistan, was returned home today amid emotional scenes. Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, 30, died on Saturday in Helmand province a few days before he was due to return to the UK. His body was repatriated...
3Vote!
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
A child who suffered brain damage at birth at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital is awarded more than £7m in compensation.
3Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Compensation of a £2.3m lump sum and annual lifetime payments for severe brain damage caused by oxygen starvation A 10-year-old boy was awarded compensation worth £7.1m today over medical negligence at birth which left him with severe brain damage. Harry Snowdon, of Witney, Oxfordshire, described as a "handsome, engaging little boy", will never be able to work and will always...
3Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Vaccine to be tested on children aged between six months and 12 as part of two-week trial Children in Britain have begun receiving a swine flu vaccine today as part of a two-week trial. Researchers are hoping to use about 1,000 youngsters over the next fortnight to gauge which of two different drugs perform better. Children aged between six months and 12 years are being recruited at five test venues...
5Vote!
The Human Future (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
After being in the hospital for four months and suffering at least two heart attacks, Ioannis Manolopoulos was operated on by a team led by Dr. Stephen Westaby from Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Manolopoulos received the mechanical heart along with his own adult stem cells as part of a worlds first procedure. His stem cells were transfused to repair damage to his heart muscles caused by his heart...
3Vote!
The Drunken Monkey Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
I'm bloody shattered. And am, officially, All Kidded out. And not in a Gary Glitter way. Tiredness aside, I'm pleased to say that it was a weekend full of WIN. The Joint Birthday Party on Saturday was a huge success..despite every parent that dropped a kid off telling us we were chuffin' INSANE to host such a long party and be so vastly outnumbered; Me and Mrs DM watched each others backs, mostly...
3Vote!
Baumhaus | an inside view of a furniture design... (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Gosh alright chaps....... after days of solitary confinement, today I emerged blinking and squinting in the sunlight ..... in fact I looked a bit like ET when his folks came to rescue him, and he waddled extremely efficiently up a seemlessly endless ramp (even though he had legs 5cm long), and into a super-lit UFO (bet those aliens in ET didn't win any awards for neutralising their carbon footprint...
1Vote!
Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new test can significantly improve diagnosis of the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma, a joint team from the University of Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital has shown.
3Vote!
The Lichfield Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
The man tasked with improving trauma care for patients throughout the country has been visiting the ambulance service which covers Lichfield and Burntwood to brief clinical staff about his proposals. Professor Keith Willett is a noted trauma surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and was appointed to the role of National Clinical Director for Trauma [...]
3Vote!
A Mouse In France (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
Just what I need! The NHS plans to give me a swine-flu vaccination I am, it seems, one of those who have "underlying medical issues" that render me liable to The Worst of swine flu Isn't it enough that I am bled so often I doubt if there's any blood left in my legs... That I have been scanned more often than the luggage passing through Terminal 5 at LHR... That my poor system is full of nasty...
3Vote!
Nofunclub V-log (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Sky News reports Tamiflu Complications Aug 10, 2009 Tamiflu Worse For Kids Than Swine Flu The side-effects of Tamiflu, such as dehydration and other complications, can be more harmful for the under 12s than swine flu, according to researchers at the John Radcliffe hospital. Health correspondent Thomas Moore reports. I tell people this and they laugh, perhaps now Sky [...]
1Vote!
Food &Health Skeptic (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Children should not be given Tamiflu or Relenza for flu Once again, medical "wisdom" goes into reverse CHILDREN with seasonal flu should not be given antivirals such as Tamiflu because harmful side effects outweigh relatively meagre benefits, according to a study released today. In some children Tamiflu caused nausea and vomiting, which can lead to dehydration and other complications, researchers...
3Vote!
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
OXFORD, England, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A meta-analysis found anti-virals such as Tamiflu and Relenza may not help children with novel H1N1 flu, or swine flu, a researcher in Britain said. Matthew Shun-Shin of John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University in England and colleagues conducted systematic review of data from published and unpublished randomized controlled trials using anti-virals in children...
1Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
University of Oxford researchers warn policy of giving antiviral for mild illness 'inappropriate' as harms of drug outweigh benefits Children should not be given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu because its harms outweigh any benefits, warn researchers today. The University of Oxford team, led by Dr Matthew Thompson, also called on the Department of Health to urgently rethink its current swine flu policy....
Videos