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Birth asphyxia: diagnosing fetal distress during labour

Oxygen deprivation during birth: identifying babies at risk

Midwives and doctors often monitor babies’ heartbeats during childbirth to find out how they are coping and check they are getting enough oxygen. The equipment they use, which was introduced nearly 50 years ago, produces a chart that can be difficult to interpret. Sometimes it is hard to tell how a baby is doing, and whether they should be delivered urgently by emergency caesarean section.

Charity funds 60 years quality medical research in Oxford and Cambridge to help prevent suffering of babies and children

Children’s charity Action Medical Research is celebrating investing more than £100 million into vital medical research over the past 60 years, which has led to some key scientific breakthroughs to help reduce the suffering of sick babies and children.

Research funded over the years has included pioneering work carried out across Oxford and Cambridge. Important research into devastating conditions is still being funded in the region today – see below for a full list of current projects.

Researchers developing blood test to improve diagnosis of sickle cell disease in babies

A new blood test is being developed by researchers in Cambridge and Oxford, which, for the first time, could help identify babies at risk of a severe form of sickle cell disease, allowing immediate and more intensive treatment to be given, thanks to a grant from children’s charity Action Medical Research.

Over 12,000 people in the UK have sickle cell disease – the UK’s most common severe genetic disorder. An estimated 20 million people are affected worldwide.1-3 Symptoms usually start early – in babies who are just six to nine months old.

Oxford researchers granted almost £150,000 to help develop a novel vaccine against Meningitis B for children

Researchers in Oxford have just been awarded a grant of almost £150,000 by Action Medical Research – the leading UK-wide medical research charity dedicated to helping babies and children.

The charity has been supporting significant medical breakthroughs for nearly 60 years, and today announced its latest round of funding to top research institutes at universities and hospitals investigating conditions affecting babies and children.

Crystal clear - research solves the scanning dilemma

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From a small filling in a tooth to a large plate inserted to mend a broken bone, millions of us have metal implants of some kind. The bad news is that they get in the way when it comes to using modern scanning techniques, disrupting the X-ray beams and making the normally detailed 3-D images from a CT scanner unclear, subsequently hindering diagnosis. But a breakthrough by a team of researchers in Oxford promises to make scans crystal clear, marking a huge leap forward in ending the problem of blurred scan images.

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