Researchers have discovered how an ‘entrance exam’ set by the womb determines if the implantation of an embryo is successful; potentially a milestone for advances in pregnancy treatments.

The Minister for Science and Universities, the Rt Hon David Willetts, will announce today at the High Performance Computing and Big Data Conference in London that the Medical Research Council (MRC) has made an investment of £32 million across five major awards, to improve capability, capacity and capital infrastructure in medical bioinformatics.

The Monash-Warwick Alliance is celebrating a double funding win for two new joint medical studies, one on the use of aspirin to treat leg ulcers and a second on the reporting of back pain.

Antifreeze proteins from fish living in icy seas have inspired a new way to freeze blood which could one day increase the precious stocks available for medical procedures.

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of 21 new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders including Mohan Balasubramanian of Warwick Medical School.

Researchers from Warwick Medical School have discovered a critical point of failure in the microscopic transport system that operates inside every cell in the human body.

This new lecture series is a clear demonstration of our desire for increasing cross disciplinary collaboration and co-operation with other faculties across the University of Warwick. Each lecture will be jointly hosted by the Dean of Warwick Medical School, Professor Peter Winstanley and the Dean of Warwick Business School, Professor Mark Taylor.

Elderly people are at an increased risk of strokes and heart attacks as a result of low temperatures in the home, says Franco Cappuccio tonight on BBC Inside Out.

People who suffer with chronic musculoskeletal pain face a daily struggle with their sense of self and find it difficult to prove the legitimacy of their condition.

Researchers at Warwick Medical School have published the most comprehensive review of the benefits and risks of a daily dose of prophylactic aspirin and warn that greater understanding of side effects is needed.

A new report, published today by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, recommends that parents keep an ‘epilepsy passport’ to aid communication between professionals involved in their child’s epilepsy care.

A team of researchers, led by the University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust (UHCW), have published new data that could prove vital for advances in care for women who suffer from recurrent miscarriage.

Researchers at Warwick Medical School have identified the key role played by a team of proteins in the process of mitosis. Working out how to control them may give scientists a way to destroy cancerous cells.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have recovered tuberculosis (TB) genomes from the lung tissue of a 215-year old mummy using a technique known as metagenomics.

Professor Peter Spurgeon of Warwick Medical School talks to The Conversation about the future of our hospitals.

Researchers at the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London have shown that exercise is not effective in reducing burden of depression among elderly care home residents.

Warwick Medical School (WMS) is to receive an Athena SWAN Silver award for its school-wide work supporting the Charter for Women in Science.

Researchers have been able to reconstruct the genome sequence of an outbreak strain of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli (STEC), which caused over 50 deaths in Germany, using an approach known as metagenomics which bypasses the need for growing bacteria in the lab.

Warwick Medical School has this week established a new four million pound Division of Microbiology and Infection, a vibrant new research community of around twenty staff and post graduate students, headed up by Professor Mark Pallen.

The Centre for Reproductive Medicine at University Hospital, Coventry and the University of Warwick can now help more couples who are experiencing difficulties with pregnancy, with the help of a first class Embryoscope.

Researchers at the University of Warwick and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust have completed a study that may lead to clinicians being able to more accurately predict which patients will suffer from the side effects of radiotherapy.

A new study shows that children who are exposed to bullying during childhood are at increased risk of psychiatric disorders in adulthood, regardless of whether they are victims or perpetrators.

Researchers at Warwick Medical School are seeking to lend a helping hand to families with overweight children in the region by trialling a new ‘Families for Health’ programme.

A systematic review published in The Cochrane Library finds that in well-nourished adults current evidence does not support selenium for preventing heart disease.

People from low socio-economic positions in Britain eat more salt than the well off, irrespective of where they live, states a paper led by Warwick Medical School publishedin the BMJ Open journal.