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Therapy Dogs Can Ease Nurses', Doctors' Stress, Too

Drugs.com

18, 2024 -- Therapy dogs can help boost the spirits of health care workers in the same way they brighten the moods of hospital patients, a new study shows. WEDNESDAY, Sept. The furry, four-legged friends reduced emotional exhaustion and job stress.

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Researchers design genetic therapy to prevent brain deterioration

Drug Discovery World

A research team at the Francis Crick Institute and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)/UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health have identified potential treatments for children with rare genetic conditions. Doctors believed the calcium deposits were non-specific signs of brain damage, but this research challenges this view.

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Combination therapy halts lung cancer tumour growth in mice

Drug Discovery World

A pathway to better therapies. The findings suggest a pathway to better therapies for one of the least treatable forms of cancer. One of the challenges we will face is convincing doctors to go back to an old drug. But the nice thing about this strategy is that it may work where current therapies have failed.

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UK’s NICE supports CAR-T for young people with leukaemia

Drug Discovery World

The treatment becomes only the second CAR-T cell therapy to secure routine funding for use in the NHS, and the only one for treating ALL in children and young adults under 26 years old. It offers a chance of durable remissions and prolonged overall survival for people who often have no other option.

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Sloane’s Journey with ASO Therapy

KIF1A

She is scheduled to be the 2nd patient in the world to receive ASO therapy for KAND. March 2023 – We met with n-Lorem and found out Susannah’s ASO (1st KAND patient to receive ASO therapy for KAND) would work for Sloane. March 2024 – The FDA approved the IND, and the administering doctor (Dr. Hello KIF1A Community!

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Is There a Better Therapy for Hospitalized Anorexia Patients?

The Pharma Data

20, 2020 — It may seem counterintuitive, but when someone with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa is hospitalized, treatment often begins by cutting calories. Now, new research suggests that those eating restrictions can be safely relaxed in the hospital. That led to shorter hospital stays, the study found. TUESDAY, Oct.

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Innovent updates ESMO 2024 on mAbs in solid tumours

Drug Discovery World

Doctor Daphne Day from the Medical Oncology Department at Monash Health in Melbourne, Australia, stated: “HER2 amplification or overexpression has been proven to play a significant role in the occurrence and progression of breast cancer, underscoring the importance of HER2-directed therapy. and 91.4%, respectively.

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