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ICS 2012 Report – Community management of cardiovascular risk in Stage A/B heart failure: Six month follow up of the COMPARE-HF cohort

Written by | 31 Oct 2012

by Edel O’Connell reporting on the presentation by Dr. Stephen Horgan.

Incentives for smaller medicines makers

Written by | 26 Oct 2012

by Gary Finnegan – Emerging uses of EMA Approved Drugs – Over 1,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have now registered with European Medicines Agency SME office. The… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Live donor kidney transplantation: Intestinal transplant activity and outcome

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Donating a kidney in later life can have a positive effect on quality of life, according to the largest study to date on this… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Difficult donor issues in the time of donor shortages

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Introduction – In many ways waiting lists to receive an organ transplantation look very much the same today as they did a decade ago… read more.

ITS 2012 Report – Defining the pool of potential intestinal transplant donors

Written by | 5 Oct 2012

by Maria Dalby – Bowel transplantation poses a dilemma to transplant teams throughout the UK. Consent rates for intestinal donation are lower than for any other solid organ… read more.

Obesity promotes prostate cancer by altering gene regulation

Written by | 28 Sep 2012

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men and early treatment is usually very successful. However, like other cancers, obesity increases the risk of aggressive… read more.

Commercial drivers could be understating sleep apnoea symptoms for fear of losing their licence

Written by | 28 Sep 2012

People who drive commercial vehicles, such as buses, taxis, trucks and aeroplanes, could be incorrectly reporting their symptoms of sleep apnoea due to their fears of endangering their… read more.

ESC 2012 Report – Normal weight and belly fat spells higher risk of CVD than obesity only

Written by | 17 Sep 2012

by Bruce Sylvester – Normal weight persons with weight concentrated in their belly run a higher death risk of CVD-related death than obese-only individuals, researchers reported at ESC.

ESC 2012 Report – Normal weight individuals with belly fat at highest CVD risk

Written by | 17 Sep 2012

by Zara Qadir – BMI still offers a simple numeric measure of a person’s “thickness” or “thinness”.  However, normal weight individuals who carry weight concentrated in their belly… read more.

ESC 2012 Report – Cholesterol and risk: past, present and future – The benefits of adding newer cholesterol-lowering agents to the statins

Written by | 17 Sep 2012

by Zara Qadir – ESC Geoffrey Rose Lecture on Population Sciences.   The recipient of the ‘ESC Geoffrey Rose Lecture on Population Sciences’ went to Rory Collins (pictured), who… read more.

T-DM1 demonstrates overall survival benefit in metastatic breast cancer: Next target, FDA approval

Written by | 3 Sep 2012

In news that is bound to excite breast cancer patients and investors, Genentech/Roche/Immunogen issued press releases on August 26, 2012, confirming that their drug-of-the-moment T-DM1 (trastuzumab emtansine) offers… read more.

EAHP 2012 Report – Two surveys examining the role of NHS Consultant Pharmacists in the UK

Written by | 3 Aug 2012

by Zara Qadir – The role of consultant pharmacist was introduced seven years ago by the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, with the intention of improving… read more.

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