‘Second-hand smoke’ increases dementia risk
World Health Matters – China – by Gary Finnegan – A study of nearly 6,000 people in five provinces in China has shown that people exposed to passive… read more.
World Health Matters – China – by Gary Finnegan – A study of nearly 6,000 people in five provinces in China has shown that people exposed to passive… read more.
EMA Highlights by Gary Finnegan – Pharmaceutical companies will have to pay more to have their new medicines evaluated, if the European Medicines Agency is to balance its… read more.
EMA Highlights by Gary Finnegan – Several new medicines have been approved by the EMA’s influential Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), including the first non-surgical… read more.
EMA Highlights by Eoghan McNeill – The EMA has published revised guidelines on the evaluation of anti-cancer medicines to take account of advances in research and new therapeutic… read more.
Taken from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) – by Bruce Sylvester – Ustekinumab, a drug used to treat psoriasis, appears to decrease the debilitating effects of… read more.
Taken from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) – by Bruce Sylvester – Ustekinumab, a drug used to treat psoriasis, appears to decrease the debilitating effects of… read more.
FDA Highlights by Bruce Sylvester – Combination antiretroviral therapy significantly reduces the risk of recurrent malaria among HIV-positive children,
Safe and effective – Researchers have found that tumour “separation surgery” followed by high-dose hypofractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or high-dose single-fraction SRS is safe and effective in controlling… read more.
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with… read more.
Egg allergic children did not have adverse reactions to single dose of influenza vaccine in multi-center study
Measurements taken over time of prostate specific antigen, the most commonly used screening test for prostate cancer in men, improve the accuracy of aggressive prostate cancer detection when… read more.
A study released today from the upcoming issue of the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS) found that taking early and repeated white blood cell counts (WBC) is… read more.