medical research

Plant-derived anticancer agents are effective cancer inhibitors. Their production and use need to be managed to keep up with demand sustainably.

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Britain’s King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer.  As we mark World Cancer Day, we look at how cancer affects people across the Indo-Pacific, how survivors are being helped and the new research into possible cures.

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Cancer treatments can put some cancer cells to sleep instead of killing them. Researchers are investigating if this is a reason the disease sometimes returns.

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Researchers in Sydney have designed a way to bring distance-delivered care to childhood cancer survivors, even in remote settings.

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A new way of delivering oral insulin could sidestep some of the challenges people living with diabetes encounter when injecting insulin.

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India is especially well-placed to take up digital therapeutics in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

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Since the discovery of insulin, diabetes treatment has made huge advances, but the condition has grown into a global killer.

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The UK and US have both approved a gene editing therapy to overcome the genetic mutation that causes sickle cell disease, but the treatment is expensive.

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