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“I wholeheartedly support clinical research. I wouldn’t be here enjoying an active life if it wasn’t for health research.”
Jane Owen, retired physiotherapist and Research Champion
We are here to help you find out about health and social care research that is taking place across the UK.
“I wholeheartedly support clinical research. I wouldn’t be here enjoying an active life if it wasn’t for health research.”
Jane Owen, retired physiotherapist and Research Champion
“Unless we try things out we’d never get to know what would work”.
Stephen Burgess, rare cancer trial participant.
“Harry was well looked after, carefully monitored, and we felt supported by the staff every step of the way.”
Stephanie George and Lee Murdoch whose newborn son Harry took part in a study.
Sign up to this free course, where, over the course of three weeks, you can learn about different types of research. Find out what questions to ask, what to expect when you volunteer and hear stories from people who've taken part and what they've gained from their experience.
Do something worthwhile to support this men's health campaign by taking part in research. Find studies on this site focussed on prostate cancer, testicular cancer and male health. You can also search for studies for mental health and specific health conditions and then filter accordingly.
Find out about all the research studies on this site that are investigating diabetes. Connect with leading diabetes research charities, NIHR specialist support and read stories from members of the public who've taken part in diabetes research.
A large-scale trial has found that the speed of increasing milk feed volumes in low birth weight or very low gestational age babies who are on intravenous feeding does not influence outcomes. This NIHR-funded study randomised preterm (below 32 weeks) or very low birth weight (less than 1,500g) babies to receive either daily milk feed increases in increments of 30ml per kilogram of bodyweight or 18ml per kilogram of bodyweight. After two years of follow up, there was no significant difference in survival without moderate or severe neurodevelopmental disability between the groups. The two groups also had similar rates of serious infection, necrotising enterocolitis (a bowel disorder), and death. This offers reassurance that faster introduction of milk through the nasogastric tube does not cause harm from bowel problems and that slower rates do not cause more infection from a longer need of the intravenous feeding line.
A new study looked at whether labelling food with the amount of exercise needed to burn off the calories the food contained prompted people to make healthier choices.
Researchers found that areas at the front of the brain (prefrontal cortex) were significantly thinner in children with a higher BMI, which could affect their decision-making.