A new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) than the current accepted standard of care, according to results announced at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health.
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Lugano, Switzerland; Denver, CO, USA, 11 March 2021 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) have the pleasure of announcing that the Heine H. Hansen Award 2021 is conferred on Johan Vansteenkiste, Professor of Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven and Head of Clinic in the Respiratory Oncology Unit and its Clinical Trial Unit at University Hospitals Leuven. An internationally renowned clinical researcher and devoted educator in the field of lung cancer, Vansteenkiste will have the opportunity to give an award lecture at the upcoming European Lung Cancer Virtual Congress (ELCC) 2021. (1, 2, 3) The event will also feature the lecture of the 2020 award recipient Fiona Blackhall, Professor of Thoracic Oncology at Manchester Cancer Research Centre, University of Manchester, and Honorary Consultant in Medical Oncology at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. (4) The Heine H. Hansen A
RIYADH: The Clinical Trial Unit, in coordination with King Saud University Medical City (KSUMC), hosted a webinar to discuss major advances in clinical research, challenges to progress, and the future of clinical research in the Kingdom.
“Research in Saudi Arabia has improved dramatically over the past 10 years, and we are seeing better knowledge, better policies, better research quality, and I know for sure it is going to be even better in the next decade,” Dr. Hani Al-Hashmi, Pfizer’s newly appointed senior medical director and official spokesman, said during the webinar.
Clinical researchers discussed ways to innovate and push the field forward. KSUMC CEO Prof. Ahmad Hersi said: “The industry’s needs and challenges should be tended to if we would like to advance and attract more clinical trials to Saudi Arabia.”