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Checkpoints: Progress in cancer immunotherapy

Cecilia JayFebruary 15, 2023March 21, 2023011 mins

Cecilia Jay describes the challenges facing immunotherapy as cancer treatment, and its potential to revolutionise personalised medicine .

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England on track to be first country to eliminate hepatitis C

Emma ClarkeJanuary 10, 2023February 23, 202309 mins

England is set to eliminate hepatitis C by 2025, making it the first country in the world to do so, thanks to an antiviral drug deal.

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Transfusion of lab-grown red blood cells in pioneering clinical trial could revolutionise treatment of rare blood disorders

Caius GibeilyNovember 18, 2022March 22, 202306 mins

Caius Gibeily reports on the promising results from a phase I trial which transfused lab-grown red blood cells into healthy patients.

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Cystic Fibrosis: A revolution in precision medicine

Megan PerryOctober 5, 2022March 22, 2023015 mins

Megan Perry reviews the developments in cystic fibrosis treatment, including the revolution precision medicine is having on patient outcomes.

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Does the discovery of a ‘chronic pain gene’ solve the complexities of treating the disease?

The Oxford ScientistAugust 2, 2022January 9, 2023015 mins

Chronic pain diseases continue to cause distress worldwide and are now the leading cause of disability. Benjamin Fisher discusses why we can experience chronic pain, how it is researched and new findings that provide a source of hope for chronic pain sufferers.

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Is green social prescribing the future of health?

Amy BoothJune 14, 2022September 7, 2022011 mins

For years medications have been overprescribed by doctors, costing millions and harming the environment. Amy Booth discusses how green social prescribing may be the answer to reduce these costs and help support people with nature-based interventions.

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  • Opinion

Virtual healthcare, here to stay?

The Oxford ScientistMarch 2, 2021September 8, 202207 mins

Sophie Thompson The digitisation of healthcare is not a new idea—indeed it was a clear ambition of the NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, which proposed that all patients should have the right to a ‘digital first’ primary care offer by 2023/2024. The pandemic, however, necessitated a much more rapid realisation of this…

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