World Health Matters: Italy: Leukaemia death rate expected to fall in 2016
by Gary Finnegan: Good news in the battle against cancer: death rates from leukaemia among people of all ages in Europe are falling.
by Gary Finnegan: Good news in the battle against cancer: death rates from leukaemia among people of all ages in Europe are falling.
by Gary Finnegan: Infants that gain weight in their first year of life are more likely to develop type 1 diabetes, according to a study of children born… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Six new medicines, two of which had been fast-tracked, were given positive reviews from the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)…. read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency has released a revised guideline on medicines for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. The publication is… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency has set up a task force on Zika virus in an effort to accelerate the development of new medicines and vaccines… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Ten medicines, including a first-in-class orphan medicine for narcolepsy, were recommended for authorisation in the EU at the latest meeting of the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Professor Guido Rasi has been reappointed Executive Director of the European Medicines Agency for a five-year term. The decision brings an end to one of… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says its powers are limited when it comes to regulating off-label use of licensed medicines. The watchdog is at the… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Around three quarters of stoke patients in China have hypertension, according to data presented at the 26th Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology.
by Gary Finnegan: Twenty-five years after reunification, the once considerable differences between life expectancy in eastern and western Germany have nearly disappeared for women. East German men have… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Black women in Canada have substantially higher risk of preterm birth than white women, according to a new study which mirrors disparities previously reported in… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Researchers in Denmark have found a small but significant increase in the risk of developing epilepsy among children who had hospital-diagnosed pertussis infections. While the… read more.
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