Focus On Patient Adherence In Clinical Trials Before Product Launch McLean, VA - Dr. Dorothy L. Smith, President and CEO of McLean-based Consumer Health Information Corporation (CHIC) and a leader in patient advocacy, spoke about the importance of the patient's role in successful therapeutic outcomes during clinical trials to an audience comprised of pharmaceutical industry executives, clinicians and researchers.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSwine flu: race to contain outbreak The World Health Organisation’s emergency committee was poised to raise the pandemic threat level for swine flu tonight after the death toll at its epicentre in Mexico surged to nearly 150, the number of cases in the US doubled and the first infections were confirmed in Britain. The WHO committee was locked in a debate over [...]
Source: feedproxy.google.comPotential New Weapon Against Brain Cancer - NASA's Electronic Nose An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells. The results of the pilot study open up new possibilities for neurosurgeons in the fight against brain cancer.
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