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Applied Virtual Reality in Healthcare: A comprehensive book on medical XR

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Our book Applied Virtual Reality in Healthcare provides an overview of innovative approaches, best practices, and coherent solutions to common concerns. ” Additionally, pharma can use VR for monitoring brain health during treatments, such as chemotherapy. VR can be a useful venue for them.” About the interviewee.

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Opinion: What the public might learn from Kate Middleton, the latest ‘famous patient’

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By the time I wrote my book , “When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine” in 2006, there were hundreds of stories of famous patients I could have told.

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BMS pays $650m upfront for Eisai’s first ADC candidate for cancer

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Folate is a tried and tested target in cancer therapy, with chemotherapy drugs like methotrexate and pemetrexed working inside cancer cells to disrupt the pathway. Another rival is Sutro Biopharma, whose STRO-002 ADC candidate – partnered with Merck KGaA – has just started phase 1 testing.

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Takeda’s Iclusig bests imatinib in first-line leukaemia trial

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The PhALLCON trial compared Iclusig (ponatinib) to imatinib – sold by Novartis as Glivec/Gleevec, but also available as a generic – on top of a reduced-intensity chemotherapy regimen in 230 patients with this type of leukaemia. Takeda booked 23.2

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2022 IDstewardship Year End Review

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As someone who enjoys the simplicity of Sesame Street and the complexity of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, this one was near and dear to my heart as well as a long time coming. December 2022 – Learn Antibiotics book published on Amazon. EDITOR’S CHOICE: BEST ARTICLE OF 2022. This was the most fun article to work on this year.

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Filing beckons as Lynparza hits the mark in adjuvant breast cancer

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At an interim analysis, Lynparza (olaparib) reduced recurrence of disease compared to placebo in women with BRCA-mutated, HER2-negative breast cancer after surgery and chemotherapy to remove the tumour. billion in sales for AZ last year, while Merck booked $725 million from the drug.

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4 types of food to eat when nauseous

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Try to stay distracted with TV, a book, or music. When you are experiencing symptoms of nausea, you may also vomit (throw up)—but nausea does not always lead to vomiting. Sit upright and rest for at least one hour after eating. Avoid activity after eating.