Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the company, Ferring Pharmaceuticals recently held an event to launch its new and revolutionary prostate cancer treatment. Having been almost 10 years in development, Firmagon was warmly welcomed to armamentarium of prostate cancer treatment options by the urologists, medical oncologists and radiation oncologists present in the historic setting of [...]
Prolonged bouts of sitting are a real killer, and we should focus on the harms caused by daily inactivity rather than on the lack of regular exercise alone, according to leading Swedish specialists. Doctors from the Karolinska Institute and the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences noted that the term ‘sedentary behaviour’ has come [...]
Badly fitting condoms are not only likely to split and break, but they may also reduce sexual pleasure for both partners, according to a new study. Researchers based their findings on 436 men aged between 18 and 67, who were recruited via newspaper advertisements and a blog on the website of a condom sales company. [...]
Parents of children undergoing ear, nose and throat surgery do not appear to remember all of the risks of the procedures explained to them by clinicians, even when detailed surgical risk counseling and data sheets are used, according to a new report. According to the report, researchers undertook a study to determine the level of [...]
New diagnoses and a history of non-melanoma skin cancer have become increasingly common, and the disease affects more individuals than all other cancers combined, according to new US reports. The first report followed a study in which doctors developed a mathematical model to estimate the prevalence of non-melanoma skin cancer in 2007. “This model used [...]
Mary Anne Kenny reports from the Cephalon Fourth Annual Sleep Disorders Symposium, where experts updated delegates on the latest developments in treating sleep issues Delegates at the Cephalon Fourth Annual Sleep Disorders Symposium heard from renowned UK sleep experts about the latest diagnostic and treatment developments and how sleep disorders can occur in a range [...]
Pre-operative non-invasive cardiac stress testing improves one-year survival and reduces hospital stay in patients undergoing intermediate to high-risk non-cardiac surgery, a large retrospective study finds. Of almost 24,000 patients who underwent stress testing within 180 days before having elective non-cardiac procedures, those who had intermediate-to-high-risk procedures had significantly improved one-year survival (P=0.03) than those who [...]
Patients with gastric ulcers are at increased risk of pancreatic cancer, but the association is not the same for duodenal ulcers, a large prospective study finds. Researchers followed 274 pancreatic cancer cases from a cohort of over 51,000 male health professionals for 18 years. Men with gastric ulcers were more likely to develop pancreatic cancer [...]
A worldwide campaign to introduce the rotavirus vaccine to every vaccination programme has been strengthened after two studies found it prevented thousands of fatalities from diarrhoeal disease. One Mexican study found diarrhoea-related mortality fell by 41 per cent in children who received one dose of the vaccine before the age of 11 months. In another [...]
Twice-weekly injections of the hormone kisspeptin may provide a new treatment to restore fertility in some women, according to research presented last month at the Society for Endocrinology BES meeting in Manchester. The findings show that twice-weekly injections can lead to increases in the levels of sex hormones, which control the menstrual cycle. This is [...]
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