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One in 10 children has 'Aids defence' (BBC Online)
29 September 2016
How some children with HIV don't develop AIDS (BBC World Service)
29 September 2016
Children could point the way to new HIV treatments
28 September 2016
Children with HIV who can resist the disease progressing could point the way to new treatments for HIV infection that are more widely applicable to infected adults and children alike, an international team of researchers led by Oxford University has found.
Study suggests routes to improved immunity in older people
22 August 2016
A study from Oxford and Basel universities may point the way to maintaining our immune systems as we get older.
Babies' painkiller problem
18 August 2016
It is difficult to test whether painkillers work for very young children and we often don't know the best dose to give. But if Professor Rebeccah Slater and her research team at Oxford are successful we may find alternative ways to measure pain in babies and may eventually be able to offer babies some better options to soothe their pain.
Neonatologist Dominic Wilkinson has been made Professor
18 July 2016
The title of full Professor has been conferred upon Dominic Wilkinson
Dr Matthew Snape wins prize for engaging the public
1 July 2016
The 12 winners of the inaugural University of Oxford's Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement with Research were announced on Friday 1 July by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, in a ceremony at Merton College.
Georg Hollander and Andrew Pollard join the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences
29 June 2016
47 world leading UK researchers, including the Department's Georg Hollander and Andrew Pollard have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Soapbox Science
15 June 2016
Caroline Hartley takes part in Soapbox Science this Saturday between 2-5pm on Cornmarket Street
Graduate Scholarship in Paediatrics
13 June 2016
Scholarship jointly offered by St Cross College and the Department of Paediatrics
We need more nurses!
12 May 2016
Our vaccine group (OVG) is looking to recruit nurses who are interested in working with researchers to help develop new vaccines.
Herd Immunity: How does it work?
26 April 2016
Dr Manish Sadarangani explains how herd immunity works and why vaccinating children is important.
It’s World Immunisation Week!
25 April 2016
During World Immunization Week 2016, held 24-30 April, WHO highlights recent gains in immunization coverage, and outlines further steps countries can take to “Close the Immunization Gap” and meet global vaccination targets by 2020.
Would you like to help develop new typhoid vaccines?
11 April 2016
You are invited to take part in a study to investigate how different vaccines prevent infection with Salmonella Typhi.
Future of Oxford Chair in Developmental Medicine secured with £3.3million gift
4 April 2016
A generous gift of £3.3million from the entrepreneur, private investor and philanthropist Mr André Hoffmann has secured the future of an Oxford Chair in Developmental Medicine.
Would you like your child to be vaccinated against chickenpox?
23 March 2016
The Oxford Vaccine Group is running a study to check whether a new vaccine helps to prevent chickenpox.
Measles and the MMR Vaccine
1 March 2016
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.
What is meningitis B – and why don’t older children get the vaccine?
24 February 2016
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?