by Christine Clark – The Bayer satellite symposium, ‘The new oral anticoagulants: mechanisms, evidence and day-to-day decisions’, was held at the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists Congress in… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Emerging uses of FDA Approved Drugs – Treatment with pazopanib nearly tripled progression-free survival (PFS), compared with placebo, among patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – With a scarcity of livers available for transplantation, there is a tremendous pressure on the medical community to make the best use of… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – A living donor liver transplant can be a safe and effective first-line treatment for very young children with biliary atresia,
Dr Irene Scalera, Fellow at the Liver Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, describes the ever-changing donor landscape and attempts to improve liver donor shortage.
by Bruce Sylvester – Combination metformin and rosiglitazone is more effective than metformin monotherapy in youth with recent-onset type 2 diabetes,
Emerging uses of EMA Approved Drugs – by Gary Finnegan – Several new medicines have been approved by the European Medicines Agency after recent meetings of its Committee… read more.
by Professor John Dark (pictured) – In contrast with that other thoracic organ the heart, activity and optimism in the pulmonary field are both increasing. Contemporay outcomes for… read more.
Now in its twenty-first year, the Medawar Medal continues to reward excellence and innovation among young scientists and doctors in honour of Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel Laureate and… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Robert Lechler, King’s College Hospital, London. Understanding how a transplant recipient’s immune system recognises the alloantigens that trigger rejection is… read more.
by Maria Dalby – The Ethics Symposium at this year’s BTS Annual Congress was held in a highly interactive format and dealt with the ethical aspects of particularly… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Dave Collett, Donation Advisory Group, NHS Blood and Transplant. Patient survival is by far the most important outcome in any… read more.
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