New guidance for GPs and other health professionals on how to interpret and communicate results from Lateral Flow Device (LFDs) tests based on the current understanding of the tests’ performance is published in the BMJ. Researchers from the Universities...
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, scientific research has been widely used to communicate about the disease to the public. New research to understand public views of coronavirus science has found that confidence in science among people in England from...
Bristol Walk Fest adapted its programme of walks for 2021 to make more available online and to download for free via the walking app Go Jauntly, encouraging Bristolians to get out safely with friends and family and reconnect with their city after lockdown...
An immunocompromised individual with the longest known PCR confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, lasting more than 290 days, has been successfully treated with two investigational monoclonal antibodies (laboratory engineered antibodies). Clinicians and...
A new app to support people with continence issues has been launched today by Bristol Health Partners' Bladder and Bowel Confidence Health Integration Team (BABCON), UWE Bristol and associated health partners, at the beginning of World Continence Week (21...
Six people from Bristol’s Black African and Caribbean heritage communities have now been recruited to drive forward the Common Ambition Bristol project, which aims to reverse HIV health inequalities experienced by those communities living locally. By r...
Bristol Health Partners’ Adverse Childhood Experiences Health Integration Team (HIT) has changed its name to the Adversity and Trauma HIT to better reflect the remit of its work, considering the impacts of adversity and trauma across the course of peopl...
Bristol Health Partners’ Dementia Health Integration Team (HIT) has appointed three new co-directors to lead the HIT’s work in improving care for people with dementia. The Dementia HIT is a team of professionals working together to transform care for...
Young infants show strong immune responses to SARS-CoV-2, new research has found. In particular, compared with adults, young infants produce relatively high levels of antibodies and immune cells that can specifically protect against COVID-19. The study le...
Proposals to change the way hospital stroke services are organised and delivered in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire will be put to the public from 7 June, after the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) made the decision to progress t...
30 July
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30 July
RT @MikeBell1957: If you want to get people involved in health research - don't overwhelm them with too much information. We know this bec…
