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Feline therapy: Study suggests cats could fill an assistive niche

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

For years, therapy dogs have ruled the world of animal-assisted services (AAS), offering stress relief to college students, hospital patients, and those in need of emotional support.

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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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Gene therapy startup emerges with green light for first-of-its-kind trial

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Spun out of research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Vironexis claims it will be the first company to start a study testing a cancer drug delivered via the adeno-associated viruses commonly used in genetic medicines.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

Tom Ireland writes about the companies and technologies that are reimagining phage therapy. Soon after its publication, scientists, journalists, and investors were revisiting ‘phage therapy’ as a promising alternative to our failing antibiotics. Read it on our website here. Illustration by David S. Fast forward to 2023.

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Macrophage cell therapy: a new hope for chronic liver disease patients

Drug Target Review

Once a patient develops advanced cirrhosis/end-stage liver disease there are no specific therapies to significantly avoid major decompensations and death in the next few years. Could you describe the platform of macrophage biology and cell engineering used by Resolution Therapeutics in developing their cell therapies?

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CAR-NK cells: promising for cancer therapy

Drug Target Review

They do not induce ‘graft versus host’ disease when transplanted for allogeneic therapy and there appears little sign of immune rejection. Peripheral blood NK cells have been used in allogeneic cancer therapies and shown to be safe. NK cells can be readily extracted from umbilical cord blood or peripheral blood of adult donors.

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Recent developments in on-demand voiding therapies [Minireview]

ASPET

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections frequently require hospitalization, while manual bowel programs are time-consuming (1-2 hours), stigmatizing, and cause rectal pain and discomfort. Despite the severe, unmet, medical need; there is no literature regarding on-demand, rapid-onset, short-duration, drug-induced, voiding therapies.

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