Posting the second ovarian cancer research story this week of interest. This has also involved Ovarian Cancer Action researchers along the way.
Uncategorized
Ovarian Cancer Action research latest
Chemical switchfor drug resistance in ovarian cancer found by Ovarian Cancer Action researchers. See also today's Daily Telegraph.
Dementia research report
Click here if you are interested in the Ministerial Advisory Group report on Dementia Research published today.
The secret weapon in UK public health research
I attended a good breakfast meeting today about public health research. It was convened by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Medical Research. The speakers included Professor David Heymann (Chair of the Health Protection Agency), Professor Robert West (Director of Tobacco Studies at the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre), Professor Anne Johnson (Professor of … Continue reading The secret weapon in UK public health research
New research centre in Hull
Am mentioning this since I went to university there. A new research centre is being built on the campus to look into cancer and heart disease.
Government Tees off into ad land and sends COI into the bunker
Forgive me for expressing some dismay about the Government's decision to get rid of its own 'ad agency,' the Central Office of Information or COI. This follows a review by Matt Tee, formerly of the Department of Health and NICE. To be fair to Tee he put forward a quite different model for the future … Continue reading Government Tees off into ad land and sends COI into the bunker
Medicines and their side-effects
This is the link to the BBC Today piece from this morning about the University of East Anglia research about medicines and their inlfunce on one's propensity to develop certain conditions.
Democratising research
So I thought you might be interested in my thoughts on innovation and public involvement that I shared with the audience at the PatientsParticipate! conference at the British Library on Friday afternoon. The real star of the show thought was patient advocate, Graham Steele, who gave us an absorbing tour of social media and public … Continue reading Democratising research
Patients Participate
A reminder of the 'PatientsParticipate' conference happening at the British Library all day today. I shall be speaking there this afternoon and am looking forward to it.
Why are EU patients having to wait so long for cancer medicines?
So I saw this on the Research America blog and I thought it worth posting. The Health Affairs article referred too can be found here. It is unsurprising but nonetheless disappointing that the article does not go into detail about the reasons for the slower adoption in Europe. There will be some geographic-specific and also … Continue reading Why are EU patients having to wait so long for cancer medicines?
Royal College of Surgeons warns on state of surgical research
Here is more on the story you may have heard on the radio this morning concerning surgical research. The Royal College of Surgeons held a parliamentary briefing this morning to discuss it further.
NHS reforms emerge from the ‘House of Corrections’
We can all have a field day (pun intended) now that the conclusions of the NHS Future Forum have been published. For 24 hours at least anyway. The next step is the Government's response which is due tomorrow. Hopefully they will have taken on board the NHS Future Forum's overall message that it was a … Continue reading NHS reforms emerge from the ‘House of Corrections’
The public expect….
An IPSOS Mori poll commissioned by AMRC and others shows that the public expect the NHS to be a National Health and Research Service. More thoughts from me later today but I would urge you to look at the very impressive quotes from the various research charity CEOs that AMRC have included in their press … Continue reading The public expect….
Smart clinical trials
From my favourite - the Wall Street Journal - about the use of smart technology in clinical trials. I would love it if someone sent me details of similar happening in the UK.
Substance over style
If you are looking for a good summary of the changes to the NHS reforms as outlined by David Cameron yesterday then the BBC Online piece is worth checking out. To me, Cameron's speech seemed to set out a fundamental re-balancing of the reforms to ensure they reflect a much broader set of constituency interests. … Continue reading Substance over style
Funding woes
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust reported over the weekend that funding shortfalls are causing delays to ground-breaking clinical trials work in the field.
Whoever said punk was dead?
Been reading a spate of recent articles from the US about 'biopunks' including this on Scienceblogs and another one in USA Today. Coverage seems to have been prompted by a new book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Marcus Wohlsen. Discuss...as the good old examine paper would say.
Shout for National Voices
National Voices has published details of its '9 Big Shouts' on the NHS reforms.
Social media
My colleague Sophie Petit-Zeman has written a short piece for the new charityblogbuddy about how medical research charities are using social media.
That giving feeling
David Cameron was on the stump yesterday selling, or should I say 're-selling,' his Big Society vision. It has been pilloried in most of the articles that I have seen but if you wish to read his speech in full and make your own mind up then you can find a copy on the New Statesman … Continue reading That giving feeling
simondenegri.com 