by Site Admin | Sep 15, 2026 | Blog
Researchers often worry about how hard it can be to recruit people into clinical studies. After months of preparation, participant numbers can grow frustratingly slowly. So when our latest eczema study filled up much faster than expected, we thought we had hit the...
by Site Admin | Aug 26, 2026 | Blog
It can be frustrating when a commonly prescribed eczema treatment doesn’t work for you (or makes your skin worse). You can end up feeling like whatever research is behind these recommended treatments is flawed or just plain wrong. So why does this happen? It comes...
by Site Admin | Jul 21, 2026 | Blog
Living with the skin condition eczema for most of my life has its ups and downs; mostly downs when I am stressed. I have found that too much stress triggers and aggravates my eczema. Are there ways to reduce my stress levels? Helping out and contributing to something...
by Site Admin | Jun 30, 2026 | Blog
Over the past three years, lots of people have shared their lived experiences of eczema with us through our Rapid Eczema Trials project. We’ve heard time and time again how people often never meet anyone else with the condition. They feel alone, saying that people...
by Site Admin | May 19, 2026 | Blog
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, marks International Clinical Trials Day. This celebrates the health advancements made possible through clinical research, and the teams behind them. In Rapid Eczema Trials, we have a lot to celebrate, and it’s all thanks to our enthusiastic...
by Site Admin | Apr 23, 2026 | Blog
One of the joys of working with the Rapid Eczema Trials team is that it is a perfect excuse for an early morning walk of just over two hours to Nottingham University. Walking gives me time to think and what’s not to love when half of the route is along a canal?...
by Site Admin | Mar 26, 2026 | Blog
The Rapid Eczema Trials project has so far concentrated on patient and public involvement by having citizen science co-production groups to develop and design the trials, as well as members of the eczema community taking part in the trials themselves. However, a key...
by Site Admin | Feb 25, 2026 | Blog
The Rapid Eczema Trials programme is founded on the principle of listening to the experiences of people who have lived with eczema. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been developing a new research question focussing on a group whose voices are often missed from research...
by Site Admin | Jan 28, 2026 | Blog
Citizen science is the beating heart of the Rapid Eczema Trials research programme. We use a range of methods to ensure the patient voice is feeding into our work. One way we achieved this in late 2025 was by inviting our eczema community to participate in one of...
by Site Admin | Dec 17, 2025 | Blog
2025 has been a brilliant year for Rapid Eczema Trials, and we’re excited to share some of the standout moments from the past twelve months. The Bathing Study: Freedom to Choose The headline finding: It makes no difference to eczema symptoms whether people bathe daily...
