Half of the benefit of taking sleeping pills comes from the placebo effect, according to a major new study published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers re-analysed results from more than a dozen clinical trials of the most common type…
NIHR Funding Opportunities for Health Research
Funding Opportunities (Projects and Programmes) 1. NIHR Public Health Research Programme – physical activity in older people Closing Date: 29/11/2012, 1pm The Public Health Research Programme invites research proposal to investigate interventions that maintain and/or increase physical activity levels, as…
Leading Academic on Cardiovascular Disease joins University
A scientist who discovered the genes that cause a disease linked to lung and heart failure has joined the team at the University of Lincoln’s School of Life Sciences. Dr Rajiv Machado was previously a recipient of an independent British…
The Health Foundation Insight Open Call for Original Research Ideas
Insight invites researchers to submit research proposals that will provide new knowledge on patient safety and patient-clinician relationships. Our aim is to support high quality original research in the areas where: When it comes to generating new knowledge we know that…
Funding Opportunity: Research initiative on physical activity
The Department of Health’s policy research programme invites applications for its research initiative on physical activity. This initiative focuses on physical activity and sport. Applications are invited on the following themes: public and professional understanding of the core messages about…
Applied Clinical Research on Very Rare Diseases – call for proposals
The NIHR invites research proposals into interventions for Very Rare Diseases. For the purpose of this call, a very rare disease is one that affects less than 1 in 100,000 of the general population, particularly those whose specialist care is…