9 February 2016
\n \n \n \nFor the Neuromodulation Team at Oxford University Hospitals, 2016 has had an electrifying start. The team have been performing dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation since 2013 and were one of the first UK centres to perform the procedure.
\n \n\n \n \n3 February 2016
\n \n \n \nDr Lauren Morgan has been interviewed by the National Health Executive magazine about the small but growing impact of her profession, human factors, on the NHS.
\n \n\n \n \n27 January 2016
\n \n \n \nAn article on The ONE Study, an EU funded project in which the Transplantation Research Immunology Group are consortium members, has been featured on the European Commission's Horizon 2020 website.
\n \n\n \n \n5 January 2016
\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.
\n \n\n \n \n2 November 2015
\n \n \n \nMr Prasanna Sooriakumaran has been honoured by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) with a 2015 Young Investigator Award during the 22nd Annual Scientific Retreat in Washington, held 8-10 October.
\n \n\n \n \n27 August 2015
\n \n \n \nPatients with rare diseases and cancers are being signed up to a massive genetic study that could improve the treatment of their conditions.
\n \n\n \n \n4 August 2015
\n \n \n \nThe third event in the European Course in Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ECMINT) teaching series, themed on treatments for 'Stroke', will take place this December in Oxford.
\n \n\n \n \n3 August 2015
\n \n \n \nThe Patient Safety Academy (PSA) has published its latest newsletter, keeping you up-to-date on their projects, courses and seminars.
\n \n\n \n \n28 July 2015
\n \n \n \nThe TRIAD project has been featured on the HORIZON 2020 website in an article entitled 'Taking targeted autoimmune therapies to the next level.'
\n \n\n \n \n6 July 2015
\n \n \n \nAt the British Association of Urological Surgeon (BAUS) Annual Meeting, held in Manchester from 15 to 18 June, final year undergraduate medical student Joel Ward was awarded the BAUS 2015 Medical Student Essay prize. Also during the meeting, Clinical Lecturer in Urology Dr Richard Bryant received the Best Academic Paper award.
\n \n\n \n \n28 May 2015
\n \n \n \nThe Patient Safety Academy (PSA) is celebrating their one year anniversary. To find out what they've been up to throughout the past year, take a look at the latest issue of the PSA newsletter.
\n \n\n \n \n23 April 2015
\n \n \n \nNDS professor Tipu Aziz appeared on BBC National news to speak about the pioneering surgery he delivered to a British woman who has had electrodes placed deep inside her brain in an experimental operation to help cure her of anorexia.\r\nWires carrying electricity were connected to parts of her brain that register her feeling of reward when she eats.\r\nProfessor Aziz said: \u201cAnorexics have a 40 times higher mortality rate compared to the normal population and people forget that. Otherwise healthy people, mostly girls, die of this disease.\u201d\r\n\r\nSee him interviewed on BBC News.
\n \n\n \n \n8 April 2015
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