In a new study of terminally ill cancer patients, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found support of patients’ spiritual needs by the medical team is associated with greater use of hospice, less aggressive care, and greater quality of life near death. The study is published by the Journal of Clinical Oncology on its web site [...]

Edinburgh Council has been fined £14,000 after 14 of its employees, were potentially exposed to asbestos while carrying out refurbishment work.
The workers, including joiners, had been instructed to remove laboratory doors from Castlebrae Community High School back in April 2007 and carry out alterations at the council’s workshop on Murrayburn Road. This involved cutting the [...]

A new paradigm in the way we look at cancer with important implications on how we treat it is about to be published in the British Journal of Cancer 1 by Portuguese, Belgian and American researchers. The group use a mathematical approach to reveal how by changing the dynamics of interaction between the cancer cells [...]

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) have established the Stephen and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative, a research collaboration dedicated to translating basic science discoveries into new candidate drugs for testing in clinical trials.

Patients who are dying and their families report that feelings of abandonment by their physicians at the end of life have two components: a loss of continuity of care before death and a lack of closure near death or afterward. In another article in the March 9 issue, Anthony L. Back, M.D., of Fred Hutchinson [...]