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 E-Mail A new type of drug that helps target chemotherapy directly to cancer cells has been found to significantly increase survival of patients with the most common form of bladder cancer, according to results from a phase III clinical trial led in the UK by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. The results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine and were presented at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology's Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. Urothelial cancer is the most common type of bladder cancer (90 percent of cases) and can also be found in ...

LICs stand out for yield hunters Listed investment companies could be on the brink of a revival as the prospect of miniscule bank deposit interest rates for the next three years puts the spotlight on fully franked dividend yields. Feb 3, 2021 – 12.00am Share The Reserve Bank of Australia’s declaration that official interest rates will remain at the ultra-low 0.1 per cent for another three years must inevitably force retirees and others with money in the bank to go out on the risk curve. This means it is highly likely a big chunk of the $1.1 trillion in household bank deposits in Australia...

 E-Mail New research suggests that a higher dietary intake of long chain omega-3 fatty acids in childhood may reduce the risk of developing subsequent asthma, but only in children carrying a common gene variant. The study, led by Queen Mary University of London, is in collaboration with the University of Bristol and University of Southampton, UK, and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. In the UK, 1.1 million children (1 in 11) are currently receiving treatment for asthma and most adult asthma begins in childhood. The NHS spends around £1 billion a year treating and caring for people with asthma....

 E-Mail Patients of Asian and black backgrounds suffered disproportionate rates of premature death from COVID-19, according to a study of 1,737 patients by Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. The study, published in BMJ Open, is one of the most comprehensive studies exploring COVID-19 outcomes in black, Asian and minority ethnic populations so far reported, from one of the largest and most diverse UK hospital COVID-19 cohorts, representing a majority ethnically diverse population (only 35.2 per cent of patients identified as White ethnicity). The work resulted from a...

 E-Mail Barts Life Sciences is harnessing the untapped resource of patient data to discover new ways of improving patient care. Specific health data collected from Barts Health NHS Trust patients over the course of their care will be securely analysed as part of new research that will directly benefit the 2.5 million patients the Trust cares for, as well as patients across the UK and beyond. The £6.7m investment by Barts Charity marks a significant commitment to deliver advanced disease prevention and treatment to a population with some of the highest rates of illness and disadvantage in ...