Scientists have revealed that a key molecule in breast and lung cancer cells can help switch off the cancers’ ability to spread around the body. The findings by researchers at Imperial College London, published in the journal EMBO Reports, may help scientists develop treatments that prevent cancer travelling around the body – or produce some kind of test […]
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Meningitis B (MenB), a virulent bacterium, causes the majority of cases of bacterial meningitis in the UK and Europe as well as elsewhere in the world including the US and Canada. Fortunately, there is now an effective vaccine – Bexsero – which was licensed by the European Medicines Agency in 2013. Last year (2015), the […]
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Evidence-based medicine and ‘value for money’ are two of medicine’s Mum and apple pie principles. But like other principles they are all too readily discarded when they conflict with harsh commercial realities – by which of course I mean drug company interests. Watching the contortions involved in demonstrating that abandoning them do not involve disrespecting […]
AM-111 – this is an experimental drug, developed by Auris Medical for people with acute inner ear hearing loss, which is a type of sensorineural hearing loss affecting the cochlea, which is the main hearing organ in the ear. This type of hearing loss can occur suddenly, within three days, as a result of sudden […]
We have discovered and developed a new anti-viral drug (SNG001) that could potentially help reduce the number of hospital admissions for asthma, bronchitis and emphysema as well as potentially reduce deaths in these patients triggered by respiratory viruses such as the common cold or influenza. Our company Synairgen, founded by Professors at the University of Southampton to […]
Today three million woman in the UK are diagnosed with so-called brittle bone disease osteoporosis and 75,000 hip fractures are treated every year – eight of ten affecting women. Research published in the journal, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders in 2010 shows that although the incidence of fractures appears to have risen since the 1960s, this is […]