Archive: 27/10/2014
Clinical results indicate vaccine candidate highly efficacious against bacterial diarrhea
New results from a safety and immunogenicity study, which included a challenge phase to test efficacy, indicate that a live attenuated enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) vaccine candidate, given in combination with a ...
Oct 27, 2014
Diabetes patients report better outcomes with improved physician accessibility
A new model of delivering primary care studied by Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) researchers has the potential to improve the health of patients with type 2 diabetes.
Oct 27, 2014
International research group publishes updated criteria for diagnosing multiple myeloma
The International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) today announced that it has updated the criteria for diagnosing multiple myeloma. A paper outlining the new criteria was published in the journal Lancet Oncology. Multiple myeloma ...
Oct 27, 2014
How can we improve the way we communicate with people diagnosed with Alzheimer's?
A professor from the University of the West of England is seeking participants for a survey that aims to inform and eventually improve how the diagnosis of dementia is communicated.
Oct 27, 2014
Courts follow doctors, not families, when it comes to patients' best interests
Doctors' assessments of whether it is in a patient's 'best interests' to withdraw life-sustaining treatment are likely to prevail over family wishes when end-of-life matters go before the Supreme Court, a QUT review published ...
Oct 27, 2014
Doctors boost fitness of cancer patients using novel 'prehab' programme
Doctors and scientists in Southampton can return cancer patients to pre-treatment fitness levels within six weeks using a novel 'prehabilitation' programme.
Oct 27, 2014