The NHS has announced it is targeting young adults to catch up on their missed measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines as part of the NHS catch-up campaign. In England, more than 900,000 adults aged 19 to 25 years will be invited to book an appointment for their missed vaccine. Following on from the national health service’s recent reminder for 200,000 16- to 19-year-olds to receive the MMR vaccine, the NHS campaign will target young adults in areas more at risk: the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and London. MMR are highly infectious illnesses that can lead to blindness, deafness and swelling of the brain. Currently one of the most infectious diseases globally, with no medical treatment available, one adult or child infected with measles can pass the disease on to around 15 other unvaccinated individuals. According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), between October 2023 and March 2024, approximately ...
The annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will be held on April 5-10, 2024, local time in San Diego, USA. As one of the world’s most influential academic events in the field of oncology, the AACR Annual Meeting focuses on all aspects of oncology research and innovation, and releases cutting-edge research results in the field of global oncology. Recently, AACR officially released the information of selected studies, and five studies of two innovative drugs, namely, Anrotinib (small molecule multi-targeted receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor) and TQB2916 (CD40 agonist) from Chiatai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group, have been selected. Clinical Studies ALTER-G-001 A Multicohort, Multicenter, Phase II Study – Cohort C Results Update: Anlotinib in Combination with Chemotherapy for First-Line Treatment of Digestive Tract Tumors with Unresectable Liver Metastases CT213/13 – Anlotinib plus chemotherapy as first-line therapy for gastrointestinal tumor patients with unresectable liver metastasis: Updated results from a multi-cohort, ...
The incidence and mortality rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) are on an alarming rise, with predictions showing a continuous increase until at least 2040. Currently, CRC ranks as the third most diagnosed (10.7% of all cancer cases) and the second deadliest cancer type. Despite the effectiveness of imaging and endoscopic techniques in CRC detection, the final cancer diagnosis always relies on a pathologist’s assessment of histological samples. Grading dysplasia is still routinely performed by pathologists worldwide when assessing colorectal tissue samples. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for colorectal pathology face challenges due to the high data volume and the massive resolution of images, leading to a bottleneck in deep learning (DL) approaches that extract patches from the whole slides. Now, researchers at INESC TEC (Porto, Portugal) and IMP Diagnostics (Porto, Portugal) have created a pioneering prototype that employs artificial intelligence (AI) for colorectal diagnosis. This prototype is a result of a ...
The gamma treatment also shows potential for treating patients living with neurological diseases Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have shown that a non-invasive treatment called gamma treatment could protect cancer patients from “chemo brain,” memory impairment and other cognitive effects of chemotherapy. Chemo brain is a term used to describe thinking and memory problems that a patient may experience before, during or after cancer treatment. Originally developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the treatment works to stimulate gamma-frequency brain waves, involving exposure to light and sound with a frequency of 40 hertz. In the new study, MIT researchers used mouse models, which evaluated a chemotherapy drug known as cisplatin, often used to treat testicular and ovarian cancers, for five days and then took it off for five days and repeated it. One group received chemotherapy only, while another group was also given 40-hertz light and sound therapy ...
Mike Hollan Researchers are debating whether to still include protection for this strain in vaccines. A new victim of the COVID-19 pandemic has been revealed, and it’s a strain of the flu. Every year, multiple strains of the flu make their way through the population. There are four main strains that generally impact the population: two strains of the A variant and two strains of the b variant. Typically, flu vaccines are designed to protect against these four strains. However, after the pandemic, researchers believe that they made no longer need to protect against one of the B strains. The specific strain, known as the Yamagata clade, has not been detected since 2020, according to a report from CNN.1 It’s not yet known if the strain has been wiped out or if instances of infection are so low that they haven’t been reported. Due to this, researchers are still uncertain ...
YolTech Therapeutics, a biotech company developing in vivo gene editing therapies to treat rare genetic diseases, today announced the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has officially approved the YOLT-201 investigational new drug (IND) application for a Phase I study, marking that the drug candidate has officially entered the registration clinical development stage.. The first patient has been dosed with YOLT-201 in Investigator initiated trial(IIT) by the end of 2023, achieving promising preliminary efficacy and safety results. ATTR is a debilitating genetic disease, caused by misfolded transthyretin protein (TTR) forming amyloid fibrils and depositing in various organs and tissues in the body such as myocardium in the heart and peripheral nerves in the limbs. Depending on the mutation involved, hATTR can occur in people in their teens and 20s, though other forms are typically diagnosed in people over 50 years of age. YOLT-201 is ...
AI remained one of the main talking points at CTS Europe, as the roadmap for generative AI was mapped out. In 2022, the launch of the generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT broke the record for the fastest-growing consumer application in history. Following the rapid adoption of AI technologies, the pharma sector is now exploring the capabilities and challenges of generative AI as it remains one of the key trends in the industry. However, despite the recent progress in the use of AI in real-world situations, we are still in the early stages of the AI roadmap, research director at GlobalData Josep Bori, at the recently concluded Clinical Trial Supply (CTS) Europe 2024 meeting. Generative AI is a technology capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts. Explaining how generative AI works, Bori said: “AI is trying to optimise the output to ...
Recently, Henlius’ self-developed and manufactured HANQUYOU (trastuzumab, trade names: Zercepac® in Europe, Tuzucip® and Trastucip® in Australia) has been approved for marketing in Thailand and the Philippines under the trade names of TRAZHER® and Hertumab®, respectively, for the treatment of HER2-positive breast cancer and gastric cancer. Up to now, HANQUYOU has been successfully approved in Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore and Cambodia, and in a total of more than 40 countries and regions. Breast cancer is the most prevalent malignancy in Southeast Asia, with nearly 170,000 new cases of breast cancer in the region in 2022. About 15% to 20% of breast tumours are HER2-positive breast cancers. On the other hand, the reported rates of HER2 positivity in patients with gastric cancer range from 12% to 23%. Trastuzumab has long been a cornerstone of therapy for the treatment of HER2-positive breast and gastric cancers, and has been included as a ...
The project will train a newly developed AI system on data collected from participating men and women Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s James Watt School of Engineering are aiming to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI)-based healthcare monitoring systems in the future are free of gender bias, to improve care for both men and women. For 18 months, the project will examine the potential for gender bias in healthcare AI and discover ways to ensure that AI-supported treatment remains equitable. The use of cutting-edge sensors is currently being investigated to track the rhythms of patients’ hearts and lungs without requiring them to wear monitoring devices or be recorded on video cameras. The team aims to address and ensure that its AI component is properly trained and capable of making the correct judgements without bias towards one gender of patients. Supported by £8,200 in funding from the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL’s Women ...
Recently, U.S. President Joe Biden officially signed the “Executive Order on Preventing Countries of Concern from Obtaining Extensive Sensitive Personal Data of U.S. Citizens and U.S. Government-Related Data,” calling for measures to be taken to prevent “bad actors” and “countries of concern” from abusing data related to the United States. Various types of data about citizens, including genomic data, biometric data, personal health data, geolocation data, financial data and other types of personally identifiable information. The executive order may pose new challenges to Chinese life sciences companies operating in the United States. The order requires the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs and other agencies to take a variety of actions over the next 12 months, including: Ministry of Justice: Regulations will be enacted to govern cross-border transfers of large-scale data related to genomics, biometrics, personal health data, geolocation and the above areas, including a ...
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