Precision Medicine for Children with Cancer

NHS pilot found half of children had mutations in their tumours that would be targetable by drugs available for adults Those children who did receive targeted treatments saw significant benefits But only 7 per cent of children with ‘clinically actionable’ mutations could access appropriate drugs, partly due to regulatory and funding barriers, and lack of […]

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Precision Medicine for Children with Cancer

NHS pilot found half of children had mutations in their tumours that would be targetable by drugs available for adults Those children who did receive targeted treatments saw significant benefits But only 7 per cent of children with ‘clinically actionable’ mutations could access appropriate drugs, partly due to regulatory and funding barriers, and lack of […]

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One in Ten UK Parents Do Not See Their Children On A Working Day Until After 7pm

A nationwide report reveals the extent to which busy parents are missing out on their child’s most precious years, with an average of 10 percent of working mums (and the same percentage of dads), now leaving the house before their children wake up, leaving the breakfast routine and school run to a co-parent, nanny or […]

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One in Ten UK Parents Do Not See Their Children On A Working Day Until After 7pm

A nationwide report reveals the extent to which busy parents are missing out on their child’s most precious years, with an average of 10 percent of working mums (and the same percentage of dads), now leaving the house before their children wake up, leaving the breakfast routine and school run to a co-parent, nanny or […]

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Boost to Health and Wellbeing Support of Students and Staff

The University of Greenwich is working with Goldman Sachs and the mental health charity Mind to boost the health and wellbeing support it provides to students and staff. The university is one of ten institutes across the country who are part of a new £1.5 million partnership which has launched  in London. The innovative scheme […]

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Boost to Health and Wellbeing Support of Students and Staff

The University of Greenwich is working with Goldman Sachs and the mental health charity Mind to boost the health and wellbeing support it provides to students and staff. The university is one of ten institutes across the country who are part of a new £1.5 million partnership which has launched  in London. The innovative scheme […]

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Charity Calls for Specific Policy Target for Lowest Survival Rate Cancers

A newly published study (Lancet Oncology) reveals that cancer patients in the UK still face worse survival rates than other comparable high-income countries. Pancreatic Cancer Action is calling for specific policy targets for pancreatic cancer as survival rates for the disease are particularly poor. In general, five-year cancer survival is improving across all the countries […]

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Charity Calls for Specific Policy Target for Lowest Survival Rate Cancers

A newly published study (Lancet Oncology) reveals that cancer patients in the UK still face worse survival rates than other comparable high-income countries. Pancreatic Cancer Action is calling for specific policy targets for pancreatic cancer as survival rates for the disease are particularly poor. In general, five-year cancer survival is improving across all the countries […]

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