Measles is a highly infectious viral disease which can lead to serious complications. In high income regions of the world such as Western Europe, it causes death in at least 1 in 5000 cases, but as many as 1 in 100 will die in the poorest regions of the world.
A petition calling for the meningitis B vaccine to be given to all children, at least up to age 11 years, has gained a record number of signatoriesfollowing the high profile case of a two-year-old child who died from the infection and whose parents believed they should have received the vaccine. So what is meningitis B and why is the vaccine for it only given to babies under the age of one?
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Unit in Musculoskeletal Disease (BRU) have announced the successful applicants for its first Principal Fellow Competition. A total of \u00a3675,000 has been awarded to senior Oxford researchers to support research that will have a direct benefit on NHS care.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a photo on the social networking site of his two-month-old daughter in the doctor\u2019s surgery waiting to be vaccinated. It provoked a storm on social media, with millions of people commenting on the pros and cons of vaccination. So was Zuckerberg right to have his child vaccinated?
More children in England and Wales, who are at high risk of being infertile after cancer treatment, will be given the chance of a family later in life thanks to a major donation to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Shrijana Shrestha, Imran Ansari, Bibek Khadka & Sanjeev Bijukchhe talk about their experiences of the earthquakes that took place in Nepal this year. Sarah Kelly has added images to the soundtrack and originally presented it at the Oxford Vaccine Group away day. However, we wanted to share the moving stories here too for all to listen to.
Dr Sadarangani gave a talk on the body's immune response to novel vaccines at the Winter Science Meeting 2015 at the Academy of Medical Sciences this month. His efforts to make the talk accessible and engage with a lay audience won him the Communications Prize.
An international team of researchers have been presented with medals for their work combating Ebola in West Africa. All were involved in efforts to find an effective treatment for the Ebola virus.
Researchers suggest that babies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy or with a birthweight lower than 1500 grams are at risk of being more risk averse, neurotic and introverted compared to babies who were born full term.
The 102-year-old Ingeborg Rapoport has become the world's oldest person to be awarded a doctorate on Tuesday, almost 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting her final exam
Professor Louise Richardson, currently the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews, has been nominated as the next Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
The University's fundraising campaign has reached the \u00a32 billion mark in record time. The generosity of its donors is funding financial support for students, ambitious programmes of academic research and high-quality new buildings and facilities.
The Oxford Vaccine Group in the Department is currently looking to recruit healthy adults aged between 18 to 60 in a study investigating how the adult immune system responds to a new meningococcal B vaccine.
The University of Oxford has secured over \u00a3139m in research funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for the academic year 2015-2016 - more than any other institution.
A new hepatitis C vaccine has shown promising results in an early clinical trial at Oxford University, generating strong and broad immune responses against the virus causing the disease.
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