Two clinical trials led by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers in collaboration with other medical centres, testing experimental drugs aimed at restoring the immune system
People who are seriously injured in a car accident are more than 30 per cent more likely to survive at least 48 hours if they are taken directly to a trauma centre than those who are taken first to a non-trauma centre, new research has found. However, fewer than half of people seriously injured in […]
Teenagers could be given full protection against Meningitis B, a new vaccine trial suggests. The study, conducted in Chile, is the first large-scale trial of 4CMenB amongst adolescents. Tests showed that two doses of pharmaceutical company Novartis
A new compound that targets anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) non-small cell lung cancer is well-tolerated by patients and is already showing early signs of activity, including in patients who no longer respond to crizotinib
Abiraterone has been approved since September 2011 for men with metastatic prostate cancer that is no longer responsive to hormone therapy and progresses further during or after therapy with the cytostatic drug docetaxel. In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the ‘Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products’ (AMNOG), the German Institute […]
Blood pressure changes during middle age can seriously affect one
An increasing number of abdominal gunshot and stab wounds are being treated without the need for unnecessary operations. Researchers from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA, and the Aga Khan University in Pakistan reviewed nearly 26,000 patients with penetrating abdominal gunshot or stab injuries from the American College of Surgeons’ National Trauma Data Bank. […]
Carestream Health Portugal has been awarded the ATARP Best Company Award by the Portuguese Association of Technical Radiotherapy, Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (ATARP). The award was presented at the 15th ATARP National Congress held in Marinha Grande, Leiria in Portugal. ATARP works to contribute to the improvement of healthcare in Portugal, and promotes professional development […]
A team of 18 researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa have found that treating high-risk, soft tissue sarcoma patients with a combination of implanted dendritic cells (immune system cells) and fractionated external beam radiation (EBRT) provided more than 50 percent of their trial patients with tumour-specific immune responses lasting from 11 to 42 weeks. […]
In a new study, a program known as Spatially Invariant Vector Quantisation (SIVQ) was able to separate malignancy from background tissue in digital slides of micropapillary urothelial carcinoma, a type of bladder cancer whose features can vary widely from case to case and that presents diagnostic challenges even for experts. ‘Being able to pick out […]
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