Using art as therapy and visualising science Benedict Lam looks at an exhibition in London that brings art and science together and spoke to some of the artists to find out their inspiration…
WHO joins drive to make all clinical trial data publicly available The World Health Organization has issued an official statement to encourage pharmaceutical companies to publicly disclose clinical trial results.…
Medicinal cannabis: time for a comeback? The stringent laws on cannabis do no favours for patients, clinicians and researchers.…
Beware the power of knowing your customerThe new profiling tool on the YouGov website is entertaining but has the potential to mislead, writes Emma Page…
Selective COX-2 inhibitors linked to worse outcomes after ischaemic stroke New research suggests that selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors herald worse outcomes following ischaemic stroke.…
Patient’s own glioblastoma cells used to treat tumour Hopes for a vaccine to tackle glioblastoma are bolstered by positive results from a phase I trial reported in Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy.…
Role for memantine in treating binge-eating disorder Research findings support a role for memantine as a potential pharmacological treatment for binge-eating disorder.…
NHS expenditure on prescribed medicines up by 7.6%, with 15.1% increase in hospital sector The cost of medicines prescribed by hospitals in England increased by 15.1% to £5.8bn in 2013–2014 compared with the previous year.…
Role of chief scientific adviser at European Commission scrapped Move to scrap the role of chief scientific adviser has been described as ‘deeply disappointing’.…
Immune checkpoint inhibitors bring new hope to cancer patients PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors induce a higher response rate across a wider range of tumours than other immunotherapies.…