Medical research

Oxford given £100m for antibiotic resistance research

Britain's Oxford University has received a donation of £100 million (112 million euros, $136 million) to research growing resistance to antibiotics, the university announced on Tuesday.

Vaccination

AstraZeneca, Oxford Uni buoyed by vaccine response

British pharma giant AstraZeneca said on Monday trials of its coronavirus vaccine pioneered with Oxford University had shown "encouraging" responses among elderly, as well as younger participants.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

AstraZeneca agrees to make COVID-19 vaccine for Europe

Drugmaker AstraZeneca struck a deal Saturday to supply up to 400 million doses of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine to European Union countries, the latest in a series of agreements as scientists, governments and pharmaceutical ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

What does 'gaslighting' mean?

Shortlisted for the Oxford English Dictionary's 2018 word of the year, "gaslighting" has well and truly found its way into contemporary thought and vernacular.

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