Tag Archive for 'Research'

Routes into disease research: Live Q&A chat this afternoon 18.10.10

The Guardian’s Alison White is hosting another live web chat on the topic of routes into disease research with a select panel of academic contributors from the MRC, Cancer Research UK, a selection of University lecturers and other healthcare professionals with a research interest. You can log on from here, and the live web chat [...]

Almetuzamab: Promise in Multiple Sclerosis; UK Research

Published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, promising trial data for the new monoclonal antibody Almetuzamab.The conclusions of the study were as follows: “ In patients with early, relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis, alemtuzumab was more effective than interferon beta-1a but was associated with autoimmunity, most seriously manifesting as immune thrombocytopenic purpura. The study [...]