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People were less likely to sign up to weight-loss programmes when doctors talked about obesity in a negative way, researchers found.

AstraZeneca in partnership with the University of Oxford developed one of the first vaccines against COVID. The vaccine, which used an adenovirus to smuggle instructions into human cells to make antibodies against the novel coronavirus, saved countless lives. But a problem soon emerged. A tiny proportion – about one in…

Flu can kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people globally each year, according to the World Health Organisation.

The campus will also establish a scholarship programme for 20 students each year to nurture the ‘next generation of thought leaders’.

The weather drives wine quality and wine taste, according to a study from the University of Oxford.

The World Health Organization has approved a new vaccine that scientists argue will be a game-changer in the fight against malaria, which kills half a million people in Africa every year. Trials have shown that the R21/Matrix vaccine, developed by Oxford University together with the Serum Institute of India, reduces…

The world has waited decades for a malaria vaccine, and now two have come along in quick succession. On October 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that a new malaria vaccine, R21, developed by the University of Oxford be rolled out for the prevention of malaria in children, just…

R21/Matrix-M vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford, is the first malaria vaccine to reach 75% efficacy target

First comparative research of its kind finds those with lots of social interaction and supportive family coped better

“Class is the basis of British politics; all else is embellishment and detail.” So wrote Peter Pulzer, the former Gladstone professor of politics at the University of Oxford in the 1960s. Nowadays, however, it is age, not social class, that is the biggest demographic division in Britain’s electoral politics.

Immunologists behind pioneering cancer therapy also among recipients of most lucrative prize in science