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Report warns of crisis as Europe’s generic medicines reduced
Added: 7 Apr 2024
A recently published study that Europe faces a crisis stemming from a substantial decline in the av…
UK’s status as global clinical trials hub bolstered with £18 million investment
Added: 24 Mar 2024
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Innovate UK, the Advanced Therapy Treat…
Birmingham wins backing for ‘lollipop’ mouth cancer diagnostic
Added: 24 Mar 2024
A single step mouth cancer diagnostic that can be moulded into a solid and applied lollipop-style h…
Therapy ‘alters immune cells’ to fight unresponsive tumours
Added: 10 Dec 2023
Finnish researchers say they have discovered how a new cancer therapy can alter the function of imm…
AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…
First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…
Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients
Added: 16 Oct 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged …
MRC £2 million targets hard to treat cancers
Added: 17 Sep 2023
Cancers with notably poor survival rates are the targets of a £2 million Medical Research Council …
Universities share UKRI ‘s £13 mill AI for health fund
Added: 13 Aug 2023
Secretary of State for Science and Technology Michelle Donelan announced £13 million-worth of fundi…
Fulbright Award for CMU academic’s ground-breaking organ storage research
Added: 23 Jul 2023
An academic from Cardiff Metropolitan University has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to enab…
Depression now in Top Five most studied diseases in clinical development
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Phesi’s mid-year global analysis of all clinical trials conducted to date in 2023 confirms a shift …
Study points to key role for AI in fast tracking lung cancer treatment
Added: 14 May 2023
Artificial intelligence could help doctors diagnose lung cancer earlier, concludes a study led by r…
Putin invasion has seen loss of two out of three clinical investigator sites in Ukraine and Russia
Added: 12 Mar 2023
The number of recruiting clinical investigator sites in the countries most impacted by the invasion…
'A fifth of cancer trial sites enrol only one patient'
Added: 3 Feb 2023
Nearly one in five cancer clinical trial enrolment sites surveyed worldwide failed to enrol more th…
Medicines Discovery Catapult and SMi gain funding for ‘one second’ biomarker technology
Added: 29 Jan 2023
A project that aims to detect several cancer-associated biomarkers from a single blood sample in un…
Breast cancer studies top global clinical trials for 2022
Added: 15 Jan 2023
Breast cancer remains the most studied disease according to recent global analysis of thousands of …
Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme
Added: 11 Dec 2022
Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…
Broader NHS gene testing could detect twice as many people at risk of cancer
Added: 28 Feb 2022
Currently limited by stringent guidelines, NHS genetic testing currently misses around half of thos…
Breakthrough technique set to improve robotic cancer surgery
Added: 18 Feb 2022
The National Robotarium has received funds to develop a method to remove the margin of error for su…
Applying MATIC to harness immune cells from tumours to fight cancer
Added: 4 Feb 2022
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new tool to harness immune cells from tumours …
