EMA Highlights: EMA chief ‘building leaner organisation’
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has restructured its staff in a bid to efficiently deal changing demand. The Agency faces the challenge of keeping up… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has restructured its staff in a bid to efficiently deal changing demand. The Agency faces the challenge of keeping up… read more.
by Gary Finnegan: Within hours of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union, at least half a dozen countries began to call for the European Medicines Agency… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Platelet transfusion after acute spontaneous primary intracerebral haemorrhage in people taking antiplatelet therapy appears to be less effective than standard care, researchers reported on June… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Treatment of pain and fever with acetaminophen (Tylenol, etc.) does not exacerbate asthma in young children, researchers reported on August 18 NEJM/New England Journal of… read more.
Increased mortality when blood came from young and female donors. Transfusion recipients getting red blood cell (RBC) units from younger and/or female donors had increased mortality, results of… read more.
Within the past 10 years, the prescription of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain has increased and the abuse of opioid medications leading to addiction has been… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: Patients who have undergone common surgeries are receiving opioid painkillers at an increasing rate, researchers reported on March 18, 2016 in JAMA/Journal of the American… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester: There is no decrease in hospital length of stay among patients hospitalized with acute respiratory failure who have received standardized rehabilitation therapy rather than usual… read more.
Consolidation and maintenance therapy for multiple myeloma: is it the new standard? Professor Antonio Palumbo (University of Turin, Italy) and Professor Paul Richardson (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)… read more.
Managing multiple myeloma in elderly/frail patients Although multiple myeloma is a disease of old age, elderly patients vary a great deal in terms of fitness and ability… read more.
Preventing clonal evolution in multiple myeloma – evidence from clinical trials by Maria Dalby Professor Roman Hájek from the Czech Republic discussed the clinical implications of clonal evolution… read more.
How monoclonal antibodies will change the treatment of multiple myeloma by Maria Dalby Philippe Moreau, University Hospital Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France Meletios Dimopoulos, University of Athens School of… read more.
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