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New Horizons in Prostate Cancer

Research and development in the 21st century is a rapidly changing landscape. Advances in technology have been the driving force to further advances in…

Hypertension Care: It’s Time to Act

The satellite symposium was held in two separate sessions – the first a traditional symposium format, and the second as an interactive panel discussion in..

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Antibiotic and Diuretic Can Form Dangerous Drug Duo in Elderly

SUDDEN death in older patients is twice as likely through the combination of the antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and the diuretic spironolactone…

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Personalised Medicine Methods Bolster Prostate Cancer Screening

OPTIMISATION of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test has been earmarked through the utilisation of methods from personalised medicine…

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Big Ben, Covent Garden, and the Thames: Lessons Learned from a Visit to London—Collaboration Improves Outcomes

This past week I have had the honour and pleasure of introducing my book Women and Cardiovascular Disease in London. During the book-signing event, I was…

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Gilead Announces SVR12 Rates from Phase 3 Study Evaluating Harvoni® for the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C in Patients Co-Infected with HIV

Seattle, February 26, 2015 – Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) today announced results from a Phase 3 study, ION-4, evaluating the once-daily…

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Gilead Announces Phase 3 Results for Investigational Once-Daily Single Tablet HIV Regimen Containing Tenofovir Alafenamide (TAF)

Seattle, February 26, 2015 – Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) today announced detailed 48week results from two Phase 3 studies (Studies 104 and 111)…

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Living with a Rare Cancer

Lugano, 25 February 2015 – Within the “umbrella” of rare diseases, rare cancer patients confront particular problems. Most rare diseases have an…

Editor’s Pick: State of the Art of Aortic Valve Implantation: Indications, Outcomes, and Controversies

During the last decade, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become a revolution in the treatment of high-risk severe aortic stenosis (AS).

Cost-Effectiveness of a Novel Self-Apposing Stent in ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) in France

The objective was to calculate the cost-effectiveness profile of STENTYS compared to conventional bare and drug-eluting stents (DES).