Medical research

Drug testing breakthrough sees side effects before they happen

Expensive large-scale trials on no-hoper drugs could become a thing of the past after a European research collaboration worked out how to tell if a medication is likely to cause side effects before they actually appear.

Medical research

Detecting blood clot risk using biomarkers

Cancer is one of the hardest medical conditions to overcome, and for those who do so, the battle often does not stop at remission. Many cancers predispose patients to develop blood clots, particularly patients who are diagnosed ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Blood biomarkers aid in Alzheimer's battle

Local researchers are developing an effective low-cost screening tool to facilitate Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis for the first time by analysing different combinations of proteins in blood.

Oncology & Cancer

New biomarkers to spot pancreatic cancer early

Pancreatic cancer could be diagnosed up to two years earlier by screening for two tumour markers found in blood, according to research published in Clinical Cancer Research.

Oncology & Cancer

Novel blood screen reveals risk of dying among healthy people

Researchers from Finland and Estonia have discovered novel biological markers that are strongly indicative of risk of dying from any disease within the near future. Blood samples from over 17 000 generally healthy people ...

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