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Healthcare takes on psychedelics – an emerging market led by Europe

December 17, 2020
More and more revolutionary mind-altering medicines and treatments based on active ingredients previously spurned as street drugs, such as ketamine and psilocybin (magic mushrooms), are gaining acceptance with regulators. Clinical...

Global clinical research accreditation and certification mark

December 16, 2020
New evidence-based clinical research certification mark to set a global blenchmark for quality and consistency across operational standards and patient experience. Accreditation will facilitate the development and alignment of site...

‘Don’t try this at home!’ – a tale of caution from the BMJ’s Christmas issue

December 16, 2020
The BMJ take a cautious, christmassy look at the total toxicity of George's Marvellous Medicine and find it may 'kill you to death' many times over. A bit like an...

Targeted microbubbles for controlled cancer treatment

December 10, 2020
Targeted cancer treatment just got a navigation system. A research team from Leeds has successfully wrapped what might otherwise be toxic anti-cancer agent in what are effectively pre-programmed microbubbles. Drug-laden...

C21 pill shows clear and significant clinical benefit for COVID patients

December 9, 2020
Study shows a clear and significant clinical benefit for COVID patients using an oral C21 formulation (a selective agonist of angiotensin AT2 receptors) with an excellent safety and tolerability profile....

CRISPR vs COVID-19: the clues in our genes

October 28, 2020
Does our genetic makeup make us more or less susceptible to COVID-19? Can genetic analysis help us understand immune response to SARS-CoV-2 virus and even find drug targets to assist...

New cancer drug for difficult tumour types

October 28, 2020
A new drug designed to counter the effects of an important, but very hard to target, cancer mutation could be effective against a range of tumour types including lung and...

Can cobots help us reach COVID test targets?

October 28, 2020
Could laboratory test automation with collaborative robots (cobots) be the answer to help 'Operation Moonshot' reach its target of half a million UK COVID tests per day asks Mark Gray...

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