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\n \n\n \n \n \nPreserving livers at body temperature has been shown to improve transplant success and to increase the number of viable donor livers available for transplant, which could lead to shorter waiting lists for patients and lower mortality rates.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA team led by Peter McCulloch, NDS professor and Chair of IDEAL, has examined how surgical research has improved in the last two decades and whether the IDEAL Framework and Recommendations have contributed.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPredictive genetic tool developed to better inform men whether and when to take PSA blood test.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn a guest post for the Oxford Science Blog, Professor Peter McCulloch from the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences explains the importance of randomised trials in deciding whether subsequent trials are necessary.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nActive monitoring is as effective as surgery and radiotherapy, in terms of survival at 10 years, reports the largest study of its kind, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEvery medicine we take has been extensively trialled to prove it is safe and it works, but the same standards do not necessarily apply to medical devices like joint replacements, surgical mesh or pacemakers.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) have developed a nerve implant that continually releases minute quantities of a drug that stops scarring.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nSurgery is getting safer thanks to NIHR-funded research by an Oxford University team that has brought together two previously competing theories about how best to protect patients.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDr Zeeshan Akhtar has written a post for the Oxford Science Blog about his research into how we could ensure more organs are suitable for transplant.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at Oxford\u2019s Nuffield Departments of Surgical Sciences (NDS) and Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN) have discovered that deep brain stimulation (DBS) of one particular brain location improves performance in a complex eye movement task that is known to require high level cognitive input.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe COPE team is very pleased and proud to announce that COPE was chosen as a project success story by the European Commission DG Research & Innovation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPrasanna Sooriakumaran, Senior Fellow in Robotic Surgery & Urology with the Surgical Intervention Trials Unit spoke about his research on local radio on Thursday evening and Friday morning (27th and 28th February) in an attempt to raise public awareness of prostate cancer and it's treatment.\r\n\r\nHis paper on \"Surgery v Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer\" is published in the BMJ.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford University Medical School have maintained their top place in the National Student Survey, 2013 with the highest ever score recorded for a medical course.
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