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| 05/11/2009 |
| The Times |
| By: Presswatch |
| New attack on cancer with nano-weapon |
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A nanotechnology therapy that attacks cancer with a "stealth smart bomb" is to begin patient trials next year. BIND 014 is designed to solve three of the main challenges in drug delivery: how to ensure therapeutic molecules get to the right place in the body, how to release them slowly over several days and how to keep the body's immune system from recognising them as foreign and destroying them. "This should be the first targeted nanoparticle delivering a chemotherapeutic to enter clinical trials," Jeff Hrkach, the company's vice-president of pharmaceutical sciences, said. "We are then looking to develop this as a broad platform that could also be used to treat cardiovascular disease, inflammation, even infectious disease." |
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| 05/11/2009 |
| Daily Express |
| By: Presswatch |
| New hope for cancer patients |
| A team led by Professor Cohen-Armon of Tel-Aviv University has concluded that a drugs therapy already shown to work in genetic breast cancer may also kill other breast cancer cells without damaging healthy ones. British research led by Dr Alan Ashworth suggests the drugs may in fact work on a far wider number of cancers. |
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| 05/11/2009 |
| The Guardian |
| By: Presswatch |
| Researchers link asthma risk to folic acid during pregnancy |
| Babies born to women who have taken folic acid supplements during their pregnancy are up to 30% more likely than other children to develop asthma, according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. "We believe that this is the first published study in humans to demonstrate that increasing consumption of folic acid, and specifically supplemental folate during late pregnancy, significantly increases the risk of physician-diagnosed asthma in the child at 3.5 years, persistent asthma (at 3.5 and 5.5 years), and possibly asthma at 5.5 years," the article said. |
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| 05/11/2009 |
| Daily Express |
| By: Presswatch |
| Full-fat milk may help children to stay slim |
| A Swedish study of eight-year-olds found children with a higher intake of fat seem to be slimmer than those on low-fat foods. The authors admit they are baffled by their findings but have put it down to children eating less on sugary drinks and sweets if they have eaten a full-fat breakfast, lunch or supper. Dietician and author of the study Susanne Eriksson, of Gothenburg University, said: "It may be the case that children who drink full-fat milk tend also to eat other things that affect their weight. Another possible explanation is that children who do not drink full-fat milk drink more soft drinks instead". |
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| 05/11/2009 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| Warning: bosses harm your health |
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Government advisers producing official guidelines on tackling stress in the workplace say managers are one of the biggest threats to workers' mental health. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence says that stress and anxiety, along with other mental health problems, cost the average-sized company almost 1,000 per employee per year. |
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| 05/11/2009 |
| By: Presswatch |
| NHS and Health Sector News |
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The Guardian reports that the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death has concluded that poor communication between doctors, inadequate handovers at night and delays in contacting consultants are causing unnecessary hospital deaths. Of 1,983 cases, researchers found 13.5% - 267 cases - showed "poor communication between and within clinical teams identified ... as an important issue". The Guardian also reports that a study of health services in 11 nations, carried out by the US-based Commonwealth Fund, has concluded that GPs in the UK rate improvements to the quality of patient care more highly than doctors in the other countries surveyed. The Daily Mail reports that cancer patients in Britain are far more likely to die than those in the rest of Europe. There are now 20 per cent more deaths from the disease per 100,000 people in the UK than across the Continent. The Daily Telegraph reports that a former soldier who has multiple sclerosis claims he has become a virtual prisoner in his room after his local NHS trust in Northamptonshire refused to give him an electric wheelchair on the grounds that it would contravene highways legislation if used on pavements. |
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