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This page shows the latest life expectancy news and features for those working in and with pharma, biotech and healthcare.
Gilead drug reduces HIV viral reservoir, says researcher
ART has become a highly-effective way to control HIV, allowing people with the virus to achieve life expectancy at or close to normal provided they adhere to treatment closely.
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FDA clears wider use for Boehringer’s Ofev in lung disease
In severe forms, ILDs can reduce life expectancy by three to five years, with the chronic loss of lung function sometimes complicated by other symptoms such as pulmonary hypertension and heart
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NICE recommends Ibrance and Lynparza, rejects Keytruda and Xospata
It has become available for routine use in the NHS for those who have had three or more courses of platinum-based chemotherapy, as it met NICE’s end-of-life ... Despite agreeing that evidence suggests Xospata can increase life expectancy by three
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The Unhappiness Project
And they measured efficiency as a function of life expectancy and inverse mortality rates. ... And then there’s the United Nations 2017 World Happiness Report (see chart), which shows that among the top 20 happiest nations on the planet, a healthy life
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AstraZenca to appeal NICE rejection of Tagrisso
This is defined, along with other criteria, as treatment which is given to patients whose life expectancy is normally less than 24 months. ... to help deliver the government’s ambition that the UK continues to be a globally leading centre for life
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Type 1 diabetes prevention promise sends Provention Bio soaring
The ability to delay the onset of clinical T1D is an enormous breakthrough, given that a recent study indicated the life expectancy for patients diagnosed with T1D before the age of
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The search for treatments for Parkinson’s disease
These drugs are effective and life expectancy is much higher than it was ten or 20 years ago. ... I think people living with Parkinson’s, and a lot of other conditions, will be very happy with two or more symptomatic treatments that improve their
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Guiding star of science leads AstraZeneca to breakthrough in child tumour therapy
symptoms including bladder/ bowel dysfunction, high blood pressure and leukaemia, and can reduce life expectancy by up to 15 years.
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Risks, reforms and rewards: the evolving Russian healthcare market
The period also saw male life expectancy fall, various diseases re-emerge and the suspension of immunisation programmes in various parts of the country. ... The increased spending had a positive impact on health metrics. By 2009, for example, life
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Weirdos and misfits
Life expectancy disparities confirm the complexities involved. An uneducated man in his 30s can expect to live 8 years less than a university educated man, highlighting the role of education in
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The true potential of mobile health tech
So, if life expectancy and health behaviour are directly correlated,. it should follow that if we can create an environment where people are more active within their health,. ... we can influence their health-related quality of life at a population level.
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Rare Disease Day 2019: A patient perspective on primary sclerosing cholangitis
Living with PSC. Common symptoms, such as abdominal discomfort, itching, jaundice and fatigue, can make daily life with PSC very unpleasant. ... Life expectancy is also reduced, which is mostly dependent on the subsequent development of associated cancers
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Putting disease prevention on a par with cure
What influences health? The healthy life expectancy gap between the most and least deprived areas in the UK is 19 years.
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World AIDS Day 2018: Fighting the stigma surrounding HIV
4. Myth: There is no treatment for HIV infection. Although HIV infection currently has no cure, effective antiretroviral treatment has enabled people with HIV to have the same life expectancy as ... NHS. What is the life expectancy for someone with HIV?
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Bedrock supports international kidney charity Transplant Links Community (TLC) with its major fund-raising activities
Life expectancy without a kidney transplant in Africa is just 3 months.
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Barber shops provide a short cut to BP reduction
The basics of preventive medicine are cut and dried: don't smoke, eat less, drink less, exercise more, and reduce your risk factors for life-limiting illnesses like cardiovascular disease, diabetes ... higher morbidity and lower life expectancy.
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