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		<title>NIHR funds life-saving treatments and faster diagnosis at BWC</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Funding of £1.5m has been awarded to BHP founder-member Birmingham Women&#8217;s and Children&#8217;s NHS Foundation Trust &#8211; enabling quicker access to life-saving treatments and faster diagnosis of rare and infectious diseases.  This National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding boost will be used for two crucial initiatives: building a specialised Aseptic Pharmacy Unit for clinical trials, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Birmingham anti-cancer project boosted by SPARK The Midlands</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Stanley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A cross-BHP team from the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (ROH) and Aston University has won a place on the SPARK The Midlands programme to help further the development of its minimally-invasive, anti-cancer and bone regenerative injectable paste, which uses the cancer-killing properties of gallium. SPARK The Midlands provides specialist technical and academic support to advance [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Birmingham trial aims to manage arthritis as a side effect of cancer treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A UK-first trial led by Birmingham researchers aims to improve treatment of arthritis in people who have developed the condition as a result of cancer immunotherapy. The REmission induction of Arthritis caused by Cancer ImmunoTherapy (REACT) trial, led by the University of Birmingham and delivered through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Trial to investigate weight loss drugs for treating blinding headache condition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Stanley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH), which causes headaches and potential sight loss, are being invited to take part in new research investigating the impact of weight loss drugs on their condition and eye health. The IIH Advance trial, coordinated by clinical academics at BHP founder-member the University of Birmingham, aims to recruit 86 people with IIH [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Birmingham joins £50m MRC Centre for clinical trial innovation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Stanley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Academics at BHP founder-member the University of Birmingham will be part of a new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Clinical Trial Innovation (MRC CoRE) which aims to speed up patient and participant access to new medicines and trials, for improved patient care. The Centre, in partnership with the National Institute for Health [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ROH and Aston University establish international research group to develop novel bone cancer therapy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[BHP members the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Aston University have come together with the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA) to found Biomedical Technologies for Regenerative Orthopaedics&#160;(BioTROCS) &#8211; a group aiming to advance research in the development, characterisation, and pre-clinical and clinical evaluation of novel biomaterials for bone regeneration and bone cancer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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