Eight years ago, two health journalists – Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus – wrote their first blog about the retraction of journal […]
Posts Tagged ‘Treatment’
Releasing the Brakes on the Immune System
Last week the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to James […]
Cancer in the Crosshairs
Research Contracts & Innovation (RCI) is the department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that’s responsible for signing research […]
Taking the Initiative
Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]
Pioneers in Immunotherapy
The intramural research programme within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland lives by its byline: “Our research […]
End the Confusion
There is no doubting the power of social media to influence the way people think about a particular topic. And, […]
Searching for the Silver Bullet
A new family of anti-cancer drugs based on the metal silver has been discovered by researchers working at the University […]
The Time is Now
The majority of specialists working in medical imaging are diagnostic radiologists, while a relatively small number practise interventional radiology, with […]
An Old Drug Grabs New Attention
The drug thalidomide, given to pregnant women in the late 1950s, was responsible for serious birth defects that led to its […]
The Business of Breast Screening
There are countries in the world – such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom – where the government provides […]