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University of Warwick researcher will improve medical screening and shape national policy thanks to prestigious £1.8m NIHR Professorship

A University of Warwick researcher, Professor Sian Taylor-Phillips, has received a £1.8 million award to drive national policy for medical screening tests in the UK.


Coventry locals help build new miscarriage support tool

Researchers have developed a new tool to guide miscarriage care for pregnant women using data from Coventry people.

Mon 14 Nov 2022, 10:37 | Tags: NHS, children, Statistics, medicine, Mathematics, research, Charity, Sciences

Vaccine attitudes detected in tweets by AI model

People’s attitudes towards vaccines can now be detected from their social media posts by an intelligent AI model, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick.


Social isolation is directly associated with later dementia - research finds

Social isolation is directly linked with changes in the brain structures associated with memory, making it a clear risk factor for dementia, scientists have found.


Reducing patients’ breathing efforts could be key to success of non-invasive respiratory support in COVID-19 patients

 Source: BiPAP using a ventilator,  Author James Heilman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-invasive_ventilation#/media/File:BIPAP.JPG

Working with an international team of leading intensive care clinicians, engineering researchers at the University of Warwick have used computational modelling to show that non-invasive respiratory support is more likely to be successful if it allows significant reductions in patients’ breathing efforts.

Thu 21 Apr 2022, 10:24 | Tags: medicine, School of Engineering, COVID-19, wellbeing

Cast no better than brace for broken ankles

Using a cast is not more effective than a brace for treating broken ankles, according to University of Warwick researchers – a conclusion that could hasten the decline of the tradition of signing a cast.

Tue 06 Jul 2021, 09:37 | Tags: medicine, Warwick Medical School, Clinical Trials Unit

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