GOLD looks back at some of the top news stories from the pharmaceutical industry over the last few months, covering landmark therapy approvals, insulin price cuts and much more.

My father always wanted me to be a doctor. He was a police officer and would come home late at night, talking about forensics and autopsies. My best friend in grade school had doctors for parents: a neurologist and neurosurgeon.

Explore the benefits of using agencies in pharma marketing and some of the reasons why creativity needs to be brought to the foreground.

Since I was in high school I have always found these topics very interesting. But I was also very interested in pathogenesis and wanted to know how biology works.

Through my engineering work, I was particularly interested in signal processing, and signals in computers are really just ones and zeros that you can manipulate mathematically.

The 2023 European Congress of Radiology (ECR), with its ‘Cycle of Life’ theme, returned to Vienna, Austria, at its traditional time in March. There were over 1,000 radiographers registered, and the Radiographers’ Scientific Sub-Committee, expertly led by Nejc Mekiš and Kevin O’Regan, had prepared an excellent selection of 35 radiographer-focused sessions.

To retrospectively evaluate the safety and efficacy of CT-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) of small-sized (≤2 cm) hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) regarding therapy response and survival rates. The goal is to compare data from minimal invasive treatments like MWA and radiofrequency ablation in comparison to surgical resection or data from liver transplantation.

The high incidence of bone metastases, particularly vertebral metastases, in patients with cancer and the limitations of conventional treatments are the main challenge for the interventional oncology specialty.