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New research could into nanoparticles could help deliver drugs straight to the site of tumours and make them more effective when they get there.
Keytruda® is the latest drug to be registered in Australia for the treatment of widespread melanoma. But we must wait to see if it meets the cost-effectiveness targets for PBS subsidisation.
The Conservatives’ statements on health do not stand up to scrutiny, while their promises on mental health are vague
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease. With a ten-year survival rate of just 1%, it has the poorest prognosis of all solid tumours. The main reason for this is that tumours of the pancreas largely…
Four years ago, just before Christmas, my hospital ran out of cytarabine, an essential drug used to treat and cure certain kinds of acute leukemia. This drug was suddenly in short supply across the nation…
Imagine trying to follow a complex novel many times longer than War and Peace with hundreds of characters and twists. With every cancer having a unique story hidden inside its genetic code, this is similar…
A protein that regulates height could be used to treat diseases such as cancer and diabetes, according to new Australian…
A drug that is used to manage immune diseases in humans and dogs may also be useful in treating a form of bone cancer, according…
Children with life-threatening cancer could benefit from a breakthrough drug that, for the first time, directly targets the…
Mammals display an incredible diversity in size. The largest mammal, the blue whale, can grow up to 30m long and weigh up to 200 tonnes. Now compare that to the Bumblebee bat, which is 3cm long and weighs…
Ten percent of the world consumes 90% of the morphine. At first glance that’s just another statistic about haves and have nots. But it’s more stark than that - particularly if you have cancer in a country…
Tiny agents found in omega-3 called epoxides have been found to block the spread of primary cancer tumours, according to…
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
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