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Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, has announced that 40% of people admitted to hospital with COVID in the UK have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine. At first glance, this rings very serious alarm bells, but it shouldn’t. The vaccines are still working very well.
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Reflections on the recent inaugural Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Conference
22 May 2025
Dr Georgia Richards, Associate Tutor for the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) and DPhil supervisor; Marc Chretien MSc in EBHC student; and Dr Emily Groot, DPhil in EBHC candidate reflect on the recent inaugural Pandemic EVIDENCE Collaboration Conference held in Banff, Canada, 14-16 May 2025.
Professor Carl Heneghan presents evidence on the health impacts of breast implants at UK parliamentary Women and Equalities Committee
15 May 2025
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and co-Director of the DPhil in Evidence-Based Health Care at Oxford University joined other academics and medical professionals to provide evidence on the health impacts of breast implants during a Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) all evidence session in Parliament on Wednesday, 14 May 2025.
Members of CEBM and the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group (OxTAG) share their work at key conference in New Orleans.
26 March 2025
CEBM members and affiliates who are part of the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group team (OxTAG) shared their smoking/vaping cessation research work at the annual Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) conference in New Orleans earlier this month.
Muireann Harte, Saleh Aljadeeah and Albert Stachura win MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care outstanding dissertation award.
17 March 2025
Congratulations to prize-winners and recent MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) graduates Muireann Harte, Saleh Aljadeeah and Albert Stachura who have won this year’s awards for outstanding dissertations.
Caroline Scobie awarded this year's Gillian Nicholls Prize
25 February 2025
Caroline Scobie, winner of this year's Kellogg College Gillian Nicholls Prize for her MSc in EBHC dissertation: 'This process has been transformative for me. The knowledge and enthusiasm I gained from the remarkable teaching during this MSc has fundamentally changed how I look at the world'.
New study identifies text messaging and varenicline as promising approaches for vaping cessation
8 January 2025
With 5.1 million people in Great Britain using vapes, what support is there to help people quit? New research explores the best interventions currently available.
Professor Carl Heneghan presents research on controversial hormone pregnancy tests to Parliament
13 December 2024
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in NDPCHS, recently presented his research on oral hormone pregnancy tests to members of Parliament.
Forging new paths in evidence-based health care: the evolving Oxford-Brazil EBM partnership
12 November 2024
David Nunan reports on his recent visit to Brazil, where, as part of the Oxford-Brazil EBM Alliance, he made significant progress in advancing evidence-based health care through collaborative workshops and strategic discussions.
Cherished memories of Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine shared in celebratory event
19 September 2024
The event was called ‘Celebrating 30 Years of Oxford’s Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine Course: Reflections and the road ahead’ and a celebration it certainly was.
Winners of the Evidence-Based Health Care Best Dissertations for 2022-23 announced.
26 February 2024
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the EBHC Best Dissertation Prizes for 2022-23 are Nur Hidayati Handayani (left) and Abhirami Gautham (right). Huge congratulations to them both. Read their responses to winning and summaries of their dissertations.
Former sixth year medical student’s evidence-based project published as peer reviewed article
25 January 2024
Charlotte Lee’s special study module project now published as an article
What role has epidemiologist Georgia Richard’s Preventable Deaths Tracker played in establishing if Clozapine is Britain’s most dangerous prescription drug?
23 January 2024
According to a recent article in The Times, Clozapine, which has transformed the lives of thousands of schizophrenia patients, may be responsible for over 400 deaths a year. The families of those who have died, with Clozapine listed as a cause, believe its dangers are not fully understood.
We’re celebrating 30 years of Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine.
26 October 2023
The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are entering our 30th year of training health professionals and educators in the science and art of teaching evidence-based medicine.
Congratulations to our 2023 MSc EBHC prize winners for outstanding dissertations
23 February 2023
We are delighted to congratulate three of our MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care students, Ho-ming Lee, Kasper Pihl and Skanda Rajasundaram, on receiving the 2023 EBHC Dissertation Prize for outstanding dissertations.
Latest Cochrane Review finds high certainty evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) in helping people quit smoking
17 November 2022
Research led by the University of Oxford, and funded by Cancer Research UK, has found the strongest evidence yet that e-cigarettes, also known as ‘vapes’, help people to quit smoking better than traditional nicotine replacement therapies, such as patches and chewing gums.