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ROME—Clinicians will need increasingly to specialise in geriatric oncology to tackle the growing un-met need for appropriate treatment in elderly patients with blood cancers, according to a leading Eu

ROME—Co-operation between geriatricians and cancer doctors was being urged at the Rome conference on Blood Cancer In The Elderly by Antonio Cherubini, Associate Professor of Geriatrics at the Universi

ROME—Cancer doctors need to face up to the challenge of the global population time bomb of elderly patients with cancer, according to Richard Sullivan, Director of International Affairs at Kings Healt

ROME—Age should be no barrier to the use of novel agents for treating elderly patients with multiple myeloma, according to Michele Cavo, Associate Professor of Haematology at the University School of

LONDON— At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine parties, a talk, and an exhibition on World Tuberculosis Day are commemorating the 24th of March 1882 when Robert Koch from Germany announ

LONDON—Success was celebrated at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine with a pre-Graduation Day party for students from around the world who have been working for their degrees and diplo

GENEVA—In advance of the European Expert Forum on Blood Cancer in the Elderly — being held in Rome — there has been a call for action that doctors should avoid denying older patients cancer therapies

LONDON—A plea for improved field-diagnostic methods for TB has been made in the scientific journal: Nature Reviews: Microbiology. Ruth McNerney of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine te

LONDON/DELHI—India’s rapid economic growth should be harnessed to provide healthcare for all by the year 2020 according to doctors and health system leaders who met together at the London School

BUKINA FASO, MALI, THE GAMBIA—In three African countries where malaria is seasonal a big research study has shown that 80 per cent more children sleeping under bed-nets were protected from malaria inf

HEIDELBERG—High maternal mortality rates in Africa could be reduced if all women delivered in a setting where a midwife or doctor can provide skilled care in case of complications. However, millions o

LONDON—A call for action has been made in the medical journal: The Lancet that India should achieve health care for all by the year 2020. This was discussed at a symposium in the London School of Hygi