University of Birmingham

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common heart rhythm disorder, have a higher than expected risk of developing some forms of dementia, a new study has found. AF is known to be associated with strokes and blood clots in…

President of the British Academy, Professor Julia Black, has urgently defended the value and importance of study and research in humanities against financial cuts, declaring them “not an optional extra” and “essential” to a thriving society…

A lifesaving package including early detection and bundled treatment for women who have heavy bleeding during childbirth has been found to incur minimal additional cost according to new analysis from 78 hospitals around the world. In a…

Researchers at the University of Birmingham, in collaboration with the Universities of Bristol and Leeds, successfully demonstrated a route by which peptides could be modified to make them promising reagents for disease diagnostics and drug…

University of Birmingham Voices were pleased to perform this month with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conductor, Ludovic Morlot at Symphony Hall, Birmingham in a performance of John Luther Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed…

Children with the most common malignant form of brain cancer could see diagnostic wait times reduced thanks to new research that trialled a new, quicker and less invasive way of determining which type of tumour they have. The study,…

A new installation of art inspired by medical sciences will open at Centrala gallery in Digbeth, including works drawing on patients’ experiences and latest research. The exhibition which opened on Friday 7 June sees 12 artists including…

The planet was located just 40 light years away in the constellation Pisces using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), and other monitoring facilities. Named Gliese 12 b, the planet orbits a red dwarf star,…

Dr Nikolaos Efstathiou and Dr Nutmeg Hallett from the University of Birmingham’s School of Nursing and Midwifery have been awarded two out of sixteen National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit…

Learning about where in the brain ‘helping’ decisions are made is important for understanding how people might be motivated to tackle large global challenges, such as climate change, infectious disease and international conflict. It is also…