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Survey: Many patients not always well informed about treatment options

More than three quarters of oncology specialists in Europe, South America and Asia believe their patients are not always well enough informed about the treatment options available to them, survey results have revealed at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain.

29 Sep 2014

Report: Too few staff to care for children admitted to intensive care units

More children than ever are being admitted to intensive care units in England and Wales but there are fewer staff per bed available to cope with the increase, according to a new report published jointly by the University of Leeds and University of Leicester.

29 Sep 2014

Researchers create new Cas9 animal model for in vivo genome editing experiments

Researchers from the Broad Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new mouse model to simplify application of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for in vivo genome editing experiments.

29 Sep 2014

Fecal microbiota transplantation officially recommended for effective treatment of C. difficile infection

The transplantation of faecal microbiota from a healthy donor has been shown in recent clinical studies to be a safe and highly effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection and is now recommended in European treatment guidelines.

29 Sep 2014

Anamorelin drug safe and well tolerated in advanced non-small cell lung cancer, Phase III trial reveals

A new drug, anamorelin, improves appetite and body mass in patients with advanced lung cancer who are suffering cancer anorexia and cachexia, according to phase III data presented at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain.

29 Sep 2014

Chemotherapy, radiotherapy have no negative effect on unborn babies

Children who are exposed to chemotherapy or radiotherapy while in the womb suffer no negative impacts on mental or cardiac development, international studies presented at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid have shown.

29 Sep 2014

Phase III trial: Rolapitant lessens chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

Rolapitant reduces nausea and vomiting in patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy, according to the results of a phase III trial presented for the first time today at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain.

29 Sep 2014

Crizotinib drug effectively halts growth of ROS1-positive lung tumors

Treatment with the targeted therapy drug crizotinib effectively halts the growth of lung tumors driven by rearrangements of the ROS1 gene. In an article receiving Online First publication in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with a presentation at the European Society for Medical Oncology meeting, an international research team reports that crizotinib treatment led to significant tumor shrinkage in 36 of 50 study participants and suppressed tumor growth in another 9.

29 Sep 2014

Scientists discover sign of early development of pancreatic cancer

Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions have discovered a sign of the early development of pancreatic cancer - an upsurge in certain amino acids that occurs before the disease is diagnosed and symptoms appear.

29 Sep 2014

Rogers Behavioral Health System opens treatment center in Tampa, Fla.

Rogers Behavioral Health System, Wisconsin's largest, not-for-profit mental health and addiction services provider, is opening its first treatment center outside of Wisconsin in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, September 29.

29 Sep 2014

EMD Serono declares winners of first Grant for Oncology Innovation

EMD Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced the winners of the first Grant for Oncology Innovation (GOI), who will receive grants totaling $1.3 million.

27 Sep 2014

State highlights: Calif. gov. vetoes bill limiting Medi-Cal estate recovery, signs birth control, inmate bills

In a blow to tens of thousands of low-income Californians newly enrolled in Medi-Cal under a provision in the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have limited the state's seizure of assets from their estates after they die -- a legal wrinkle that most only discovered after they had signed up for the health care plan for the poor (Seipel, 9/25).

27 Sep 2014

US children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function compared to UK counterparts

There are significant differences in the lung function of children and young adults in the United States (US) who have cystic fibrosis compared with those in the United Kingdom (UK).

27 Sep 2014

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust nominated twice for Health Service Journal Awards

SHEFFIELD Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been nominated twice for outstanding ideas improving patient care in the Health Service Journal Awards 2014 – one of the most coveted awards in healthcare.

27 Sep 2014

Heart Hospital of Austin becomes first facility in Texas to implant CardioMEMS HF System

On Sept. 24, 2014 Heart Hospital of Austin became the first facility in Texas to implant a new miniaturized, wireless monitoring sensor to manage heart failure (HF). The CardioMEMS HF System is the first and only FDA-approved heart failure monitoring device that has been proven to significantly reduce hospital admissions when used by physicians to manage heart failure.

27 Sep 2014

Hospital News and Research

Survey: Many patients not always well informed about treatment options

Report: Too few staff to care for children admitted to intensive care units

Researchers create new Cas9 animal model for in vivo genome editing experiments

Fecal microbiota transplantation officially recommended for effective treatment of C. difficile infection

Anamorelin drug safe and well tolerated in advanced non-small cell lung cancer, Phase III trial reveals

Chemotherapy, radiotherapy have no negative effect on unborn babies

Phase III trial: Rolapitant lessens chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

Crizotinib drug effectively halts growth of ROS1-positive lung tumors

Scientists discover sign of early development of pancreatic cancer

Rogers Behavioral Health System opens treatment center in Tampa, Fla.

EMD Serono declares winners of first Grant for Oncology Innovation

State highlights: Calif. gov. vetoes bill limiting Medi-Cal estate recovery, signs birth control, inmate bills

US children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function compared to UK counterparts

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust nominated twice for Health Service Journal Awards

Heart Hospital of Austin becomes first facility in Texas to implant CardioMEMS HF System

Medicaid expansion concept gains momentum in some initially reluctant states

Universal Health Services acquires Cygnet Health Care, added as component of S&P 500 Index

Four more hospital systems quit ACO program

Underinsured Obamacare enrollees flood community health centers

CHLA achieves Accredited Pediatric Heart Failure Institute designation

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How microplastics and bacteria interact to drive antibiotic resistance

Single-cell proteomics: Revealing proteome diversity from cellular heterogeneity to non-canonical biology

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