Chemical Allergy in Healthcare

This article will present a review of the problem of chemical allergies associated with glove use and key considerations in the selection and use of alternative medical glove products to minimise and or prevent chemical allergies..

Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Improving the survival rate

The management of Colorectal Cancer liver metastases has evolved over the past decade as a result of using more sophisticated imaging technology effective systemic therapies including multidrug treatment regimes with advanced surgical techniques This has greatly improved response rates resectability..

Treatment of Stroke

Acting on the symptoms

Prompt recognition of suspected stroke symptoms and immediate activation of Emergency Medical Services EMS are crucial to effective prehospital stroke care early access to stroke specialist services and successful management..

Heart failure management

Monitoring with implantable devices

Implantable devices including pacemakers defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation systems may play a role in helping monitor the progress of heart failure in an individual patient..

Convergence in the Life Sciences Industry

Combination products show the way

Driven by market forces a need for new growth avenues and an ever more conscious consumer medical device pharma and diagnostics companies are coming together to deliver innovative solutions..

Personalised Medicine

Future architecture

The standard one size fits all approach of treating many individuals may soon become obsolete More targeted approaches promise to improve outcomes while reducing toxicity and medical costs..

Personalised Medicine

An idea whose time is approaching

DNA sequencing of human genes could provide the 21st century with the ultimate in evidencebased medicine allowing us to tackle not only cardiovascular disease but many other life threatening diseases..

Genetic Testing

All set for growth

Technology and the worldwide coordination of efforts to push discovery in genetics has exacerbated the growth of opportunity in this sector..

Genetic Testing

The ethics side

The industry should be addressing these issues right now Ethics is the biggest obstacle to the future success of genetic testing..

Genetic Tests

All about interpreting

Profiling can be inherently valuable but we must keep it in the perspective of the entire picture of a persons health lifestyle environmental factors and the like..