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Chemo, Immune Systems and Superbugs

The ultimate superbug that is resistant to the ultimate antibiotic has reached Europe in an apparently inexorable global spread from China. In November the medical journal Lancet Infectious Diseases reported that researchers in China had discovered bacteria with a dangerous new antibiotic-resistance gene that is spreading from livestock to people in China. This newly identified…

A Cure for Skin Cancer on the Way

Ongoing clinical trials herald success for a groundbreaking treatment for the killer skin cancer ‘advanced melanoma. At the annual European Cancer Congress in Amsterdam last month, Professor Alexander Eggermont announced the good news and forecast that within five to ten years advanced melanoma could become a curable desease for perhaps 50% of patients, if the…