A radical overhaul of the adult social care system is being called for by Birmingham University researchers following an independent analysis of the social and financial gains that could be reaped
Civil engineers from the University of Birmingham are conducting research to evaluate the thermal performance of a new type of house called the ‘Ergohome’. The Ergohome, which is situated on the University’s campus, is a new living concept which includes built-in sustainable features to address future housing needs.
Humanitarian workers must strike a reasonable balance between staying safe and saving lives, according to a University of Birmingham lecturer.
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have been carrying out ‘laboratory gunfights’ to show that we move faster when we react to something in our environment than we do when we initiate the action ourselves. It is an idea inspired by cowboy movies, but in reality it’s more useful for avoiding oncoming traffic. Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Wellcome Trust, the research is published today (03 February 2010) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Research from the University of Birmingham has renewed hope that an effective vaccine could be developed against nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella. The findings suggest that the body's immune system could be primed to tackle even the most resilient of strains.
Patients who are diagnosed with early stage lung cancer can double their chances of survival over five years if they stop smoking compared with those who continue to smoke, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham.
A team of scientists at the University of Birmingham have completed genome sequencing of a particular type of E. coli that is one of the major causes of diarrhoea in the UK, findings that could lead to vaccines to protect individuals in the developed and developing world.
Computer scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a new flaw in e-passports that makes it possible to remotely distinguish individual e-passports and so automatically identify anybody that carries one. This is made possible by a fault in the design of the radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag these documents carry.
The combination of a cholesterol-lowering drug and a contraceptive drug has been shown in its first UK clinical trial to be potentially safer and more effective treatment for certain leukaemia patients than conventional chemotherapy.
Scientists at the University of Birmingham have revealed significant discrepancies in guidelines set out by the World Health Organisation for treating children with HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
New report at the University of Birmingham has explored how community-based approaches can foster development and social cohesion in fragile and conflict-affected states.
The University is open as usual despite the current weather conditions. However, you are advised to exercise extreme caution when moving around campus.
As the Beatles Rock Band and Wii Fit top the Christmas charts, new research from the University of Birmingham reveals that social interactions are key to designing a hit video game.
Two University of Birmingham engineers will take part in a government supported UK-wide project to trial electric and ultra low emission vehicles, when 25 Mitsubishi i-MiEVs (Mitsubishi innovative Electric Vehicle) will be given to independent drivers, including motoring journalist Quentin Willson, to test over the next 12 months.
Treating suspected cases of swine flu with tamiflu in patients who are otherwise healthy provides no real benefit, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham.
Nearly 3000 students will graduate from the University of Birmingham at six degree ceremonies between 9 – 11 December. They will receive their degrees alongside honorary graduands that include Phyllida Lloyd, director of Mamma Mia! and Vikki Heywood, Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Birmingham physicists have played a key role in producing the first results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a 27km underground tunnel near Geneva, where scientists are colliding together particles to discover what happened a millionth of a second after the Big Bang.
The University of Birmingham has announced today that Ed Smith, who is currently a Board member and Deputy Chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), will become the University’s new Pro-Chancellor. Mr Smith takes up the post in August 2010
Archaeologists at the University of Birmingham have begun preparations for an archaeological excavation at the site of Shakespeare’s final home ‘New Place’ in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he lived out his final years and in which he died in 1616. Initial work to test the feasibility of an excavation project is underway and will inform plans for a wider archaeological project by Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust at New Place next year.
Birmingham physicists are delighted that their experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), that aim to find what happened just after the Big Bang, will soon be underway as scientists have successfully collided together two low-energy beams of protons for the first time.
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