Day: February 7, 2017

Breast cancer treatment to start within weeks

Radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer patients at the North West Cancer Centre will begin within weeks, it has been confirmed. Andrew Reilly, Head of Physics at the North West Cancer Services, said that the treatment of head and neck, bladder and rectum cancers and a range of palliative therapies are also expected to be fully operational by mid-summer.

NANOBIOTIX appoints senior executive from pharmaceutical industry, as Chief Operating Officer

Paris, France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, February 7, 2017 – NANOBIOTIX , a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer, announced today the appointment of Alain Dostie, a senior executive from the pharmaceutical industry, as its Chief Operating Officer . Mr. Dostie will lead Nanobiotix’s operations, including development, manufacturing, market access and sales, for the Company’s lead product NBTXR3, which could obtain a CE Mark approval in 2017.

New grant aims to combat alcoholism

A grant of $29 million for alcoholism treatment research may pave the way for new discoveries in the field at UT. The National Institutes of Health awarded a total of $29 million to the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism-Neuroimmune, an international consortium researching better methods to combat alcoholism, with $8.5 million going to UT.

Patient riled top to toe by long surgery wait

… anticipated he may have to wait six to 12 months but he is stunned to still be waiting. He has phoned Albury Wodonga Health three times and visited twice but the sole explanation he has received related to his surgeon Gordon Slater. Feeling stymied, …

E-cigarettes ‘safer’ than regular cigarettes

The research found that after six months, people who switched from real to e-cigarettes had far fewer toxins and cancer-causing substances in their bodies than continual smokers. British scientists studied 181 smokers, and ex-smokers who used e-cigarettes or nicotine replacement therapy products such as patches for at least six months.

Percutaneous Coronary Market 2017 Share, Trend, Segmentation and Forecast to 2020

PUNE, INDIA, February 7, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — MediPoint: Percutaneous Coronary Interventions – Global Analysis and Market Forecasts Summary Coronary stents, which include bare metal stents, drug-eluting stents , covered stents, and bioabsorbable stents GET SAMPLE REPORT @ De novo stenosis, acute myocardial infarction , bifurcation lesions, small vessel disease , saphenous vein grafts , left main coronary artery disease , and chronic total occlusions In the US and 5EU, coronary stents market value is expected to decline slowly, whereas it is expected to demonstrate steady growth in the APAC and South American regions Newer technologies, such as BASes and the third generation of DESes aim to address unmet needs of complex lesions and challenging … (more)

Field Days powers up

… at 11am each day will be led by a massive 1910 Chas Burrell steam traction engine. The National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH) will again be providing free health assessments, measuring body mass index, cholesterol, blood pressure and glucose …

Familiar names, faces return to movie theaters

Keanu Reeves returns as hitman John Wick in “John Wick: Chapter 2.” In this chapter he’s forced out of retirement by a former associate hoping to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Wick travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.

Written Reply by Mr Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for the Environment…

To ask the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources what measures can be taken to prevent smokers who drop cigarette ashes and dispose used cigarette butts from their flats to their neighbours’ units resulting in potential fire hazards and health concerns. The indiscriminate disposal of cigarette butts from one’s residential unit is an anti-social act which also poses a potential fire hazard if the cigarette butt is still lit when it is dropped.