Tag: Europe
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Infographic – HIV Infections Growing in Eastern Europe
While much attention is focused on the continuing AIDS and HIV crisis in Africa, countries in Eastern Europe are also facing growing numbers of HIV infections.
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Project to Catalog Precision Lung Cancer Immunotherapies
A new research initiative in the U.K. is collecting and mapping precise combinations of therapies that invoke the immune system to treat lung cancer.
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Prosthetic Joint Provides More Natural Wrist Movements
An academic-industry engineering team in Sweden developed and tested a prosthetic wrist joint that provides more natural movement and control than most current devices.
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Personalized Computer Models Developed for Heart Disease
Researchers in the U.K. are developing computer models of heart functions that enable physicians to simulate recommended treatments for individual patients to gauge and optimize their outcomes.
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Company Formed to Advance Sickle Cell Gene Therapy
A Swiss medical technologies company and Cincinnati Children’s hospital in Ohio are starting a new enterprise to commercialize research on gene therapies for inherited blood disorders.
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U.K. Pharmas, Regulators Agree on Faster Drug Review
Drug makers and regulators in the U.K. agreed on new review processes for more effective therapies in company pipelines, in exchange for caps on branded drug sales, which is expected to save £930 million ($US 1.2 billion) next year.
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Report – U.S. Lags in Robotic Adoption
A report released today shows the U.S. and most European countries are falling behind most other developed countries, in adopting robotics into their economies.
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Trial Shows Treatment Prevents Peanut Allergy Reactions
Final results from a clinical trial show a preventive treatment desensitizes children and adolescents with peanut allergies against reaction-causing proteins in peanuts for one year.
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Faster Crop Breeding Techniques Made Available to Other Scientists
Plant scientists in the U.K. and Australia are making available to their colleagues experimental techniques that speed-up breeding cycles for more commercial crop varieties.
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Biotechs to Develop Personal Cancer-Killing Virus Vaccines
Two biotechnology companies developing engineered viruses as cancer therapies plan to create personalized treatments for solid tumors with viruses that harness the immune system.