Archive: 29/09/2014
Aid workers learning to fight Ebola as they go: WHO coordinator
Jean-Pierre Veyrenche, in charge of building Ebola treatment centres in Monrovia for the World Health Organization, says fear is keeping international aid experts from joining the battle against the west African outbreak.
Sep 29, 2014
A low-cost urine test for tuberculousis that could save thousands of lives
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease that affects the lungs and kills nearly two million people every year. Most of these deaths occur among the poorest communities in the world, where access to medical care ...
Sep 29, 2014
Genetic modifier affects colon tumor formation
(Medical Xpress)—Unexpected results from an ongoing experiment in the lab of Kristi Neufeld, co-leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the University of Kansas Cancer Center, led to a potentially important discovery that ...
Sep 29, 2014
Adding cediranib to chemotherapy improves progression-free survival for metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer
For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement ...
Sep 29, 2014