Coronavirus Live Updates: Travel Restrictions Apply to Millions as Death Toll Rises to 26

ImageMedical workers transfer a patient to a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Thursday. The mysterious disease has killed 26 people so far.Credit…EPA, via Shutterstock The death toll jumps as millions are caught up in lockdown. The authorities drastically expanded a travel lockdown in central China on Thursday, essentially penning in more than 22 million residents…

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The highways of our brain

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) used a new technique to show how electrical impulses are traveling with high speed in the brain. It appears that myelin, the sheath around neurons, creates a coaxial cable producing multiple waves of electrical potentials traveling in a more complicated manner than was envisioned earlier. These findings…

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NCRI Living With and Beyond Cancer Meeting

This meeting will cover the recent developments in the NCRI Living With and Beyond Cancer (LWBC) Research Group’s projects. The programme is packed full of informative presentations covering the following workstreams: Acute Care and Toxicities, Advanced Disease and End of Life Care, Metastasis of Unknown Origin, Cancer of Unknown Primary (MUO/CUP), Late Consequences and Methodology.…

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Registry data — of sufficient quality — suitable for extended benefit assessment of drugs

Particularly in the case of accelerated drug approvals and drugs for rare diseases (orphan drugs), the evidence available at the time of market access is often insufficient for the early benefit assessment of drugs. Often, the studies are too short or no data on patient-relevant outcomes were collected. Comparisons with the German standard of care…

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