Single paediatric anesthesia entails no apparent cognitive risks
by Bruce Sylvester: A single exposure to general anesthesia does not lead to a cognitive risk in healthy children under age three, researchers reported On June 7, 2016… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: A single exposure to general anesthesia does not lead to a cognitive risk in healthy children under age three, researchers reported On June 7, 2016… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Researchers from a randomized phase III trial report that addition of temozolomide (Temodar) chemotherapy during short-course radiation therapy, followed by monthly maintenance doses of temozolomide,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy atezolizumab (TECENTRIQ) has shown efficacy in previously untreated patients with advanced bladder cancer who are ineligible for standard treatment with cisplatin.
by Gary Finnegan: Six medicines, including two combination therapies for chronic hepatitis C, have been recommended for approval at the May meeting of the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The EU drug watchdog is reviewing the guidelines on first-in-human clinical trials in response to the tragic death of a participant in a trial in… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Most successful applicants to the EU drug watchdog, the European Medicines Agency, have something in common: they seek scientific advice from the regulator when developing… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Cholesterol levels – the most common risk factor for heart attacks – have decreased in northern Sweden over the last 20 years. Since medication only… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Hospital admissions for first-time stroke increased in young adults in Denmark during the past two decades, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart… read more.
Charlotte Pawlyn and John R Jones (both of Institute of Cancer Research, London) and Ruth de Tute, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds. by Maria Dalby: Quadruplet therapy with… read more.
Risk stratification in the older patient: what are our priorities? by Maria Dalby Professor Sonja Zweegman, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, NL Biological age and frailty, rather than… read more.
Risk stratification in the older patient: what are our priorities? by Maria Dalby Professor Sonja Zweegman, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, NL Biological age and frailty, rather than… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Cooperation between medicines regulators and health technology assessment (HTA) bodies is helping to streamline clinical studies of new medicines, according to a new report.