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Hepatitis C in the UK – the path to elimination
Following an 11% fall in hepatitis C-related deaths between 2016 and 2017, Rachel Halford makes the case for a national strategy to eliminate hepatitis...
60% human diseases originate in animals: Could One Health tackle this?
The One Health approach unites human, animal, food and environment professionals to tackle human diseases and fight antimicrobial resistance.
It is discovered that many of...
Medical technologies in the fight against antimicrobial resistance
Medical technologies are in a unique position to address several of the key challenges we face when thinking about antimicrobial resistance, as MedTech Europe...
HepatoPredict: stratifying liver cancer patients for transplantation
The HepatoPredict - a powerful predictive tool to accurately select hepatocellular carcinoma patients for successful liver transplantation.
Dr José Pereira Leal, the founder and executive...
Diagnostic tools and therapies to be developed by new Horizon 2020 projects
New Horizon 2020 projects set to collaboratively research and develop innovative diagnostic tools and therapies for rare diseases.
Almost a dozen new collaborative research and...
Rare form of blindness could be treated by breakthrough gene therapy
The world’s first breakthrough gene therapy trial for choroideremia, a genetic cause of blindness, has had successful results.
As reported in the Nature Medicine, the...
Could HPV be linked to improving cervical cancer survival rates?
Researchers believe that high-risk HPV can be another important analytical marker that can improve cervical cancer survival rates.
The occurrence of high-risk human papillomavirus (HrHPV)...
Johnson & Johnson: collaboration advancing novel vaccine development for MERS
Johnson & Johnson announced today a new collaboration that will support novel vaccine development against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Janssen Vaccines & Prevention...
Platome Biotechnology – advancing cellular therapies
Icelandic company Platome Biotechnology is reinventing cell culture to help speed up the development of approved cellular therapies.
Regenerative medicine will play a key role...
Rapid diagnostic technologies versus antimicrobial resistance
Rapid diagnostic technologies could play a key role in efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance, so why isn’t their uptake being more widely encouraged? Melina...
Scandal: NHS patients given contaminated blood
Public inquiry has begun regarding how thousands of NHS patients were given blood products infected with hepatitis and HIV during the 1970s and 1980s,...
Could paracetamol use in infancy be a cause of asthma?
Specific variants in the GST genes seem to play a role in greater susceptibility to lung problems and possibly be a cause of asthma...
Can viral infections be prevented?
Researchers have developed low-cost, ‘cell-friendly’ nanogels that can effectively thwart viral infections.
An international research group including scientists from Freie Universität, Germany, has introduced an...
HPV oral infection rates lower than expected, according to England study
A new study reveals that rates of high risk HPV oral infection are lower than expected, and that smokers and individuals who are more...
Fall in deaths from hepatitis C-related liver disease
Deaths from hepatitis C-related end-stage liver disease have decreased by 11% in the last year in England, but diagnoses of advanced liver disease and...
Vaccines for animal and human health
Vaccines are understood to be one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine. Here, Health Europa explores how vaccines have benefitted not only humans...
The timing of immunotherapy
The Departments of Surgery and Molecular Cell Biology & Immunology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, explore how immunotherapy can be used to fight against...
Understanding the relationship between inflammation and cancer
Recent research is advancing our understanding of the link between acute and chronic inflammation and cancer, as Health Europa explores.
Inflammation plays an important role...
The past, present and future of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research
Dr Riks Maas and Professor Jeroen Kortekaas discuss the pioneering work of Wageningen Bioveterinary Research in the fields of viral vaccine development and animal...
£2m awarded to Warwick University to help fight viral disease in East Africa
The University of Warwick, UK, has been awarded £2m (~€2.2m) for a project which aims to tackle the spread of viral disease in East...