Alcivax #19 – July 9, 2020: Alcimed’s weekly digest of coronavirus news. This week, Alcimed wades into the school reopening debate during COVID-19, the parallels to remote work, and how it may impact economic recovery.
Precise studies about the number of African cases remain rare as African countries have been reporting fragmented data, undermining the number of cases, leading to dangerous outbreaks. Why does 16.7% of the world population only represent 4.3% of reported cases? Precise epidemiology to inform humanitarian and economic policy is lagging. Alcimed explores in this article how African innovation could provide better data and solutions for the pandemic response on the continent.
Despite scientific advances in diagnosis and treatment, as well as advances in care and prevention, cancer remains the second leading cause of death worldwide (9.6 million in 2018). In addition to the symptoms of the disease, patients suffer from the adverse effects of heavy treatments, which sometimes have lifelong after-effects. In this article, we focus on photodynamic therapy, a treatment that has been developing for cancer over the past 40 years, and which offers numerous benefits for patients.
BIOMIMICRY & SMART MATERIALS SERIES (1/3): Today, biomimicry is a recognized source of inspiration for scientific innovation since it is the source of great technological breakthroughs. This approach to innovation is now applied to intelligent materials, capable of adapting to their external environment from low intensity stimuli. The study of sea cucumbers has inspired new smart materials that open up new perspectives for implantable devices. At Alcimed, our Chemicals-Materials team reviews the new hardening intelligent materials applicable in particular to the medical sector.
Intraoperative detection of cancer cells is a new and innovative form of interventional oncology. It has been applied in diagnosis, treatment or symptom easement and brings along minimal invasive procedures and precision medicine approaches in need of multiple biopsies. The next step of advancement comes with intraoperative detection of cancer cells. In this article we will walk you through some reasons why this approach is so innovative and will describe some interesting players engaged in the field.
Alcivax #18 – July 2, 2020: Alcimed’s weekly digest of coronavirus news. This week, Alcimed surveys the impact of the COVID pandemic on income inequality and explores how it will stagnate economic recovery.
At the end of May, specialists from the field of oncology from all over the world shared their newest findings at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting. While this time in a virtual setting, high quality research was presented. Especially the topic of personalized medicine around immunotherapies and targeted drugs have been a hot subject during the ASCO 2020 meeting and have been presented during the plenary sessions.
Alcivax #17 – June 26, 2020: Alcimed’s weekly digest of coronavirus news. This week, Alcimed investigates quarantine fatigue symptoms and how normalcy establishment can play in preventing the 2nd wave of COVID-19 coronavirus.
The number of people suffering from chronic kidney disease is rising. However, patients with chronic kidney disease are often undiagnosed and suffer severe consequences. Only 12% of them would actually be diagnosed. How is this possible? How does it affect patients and what are future possibilities for improvement?
Alcivax #16 – June 19, 2020: Alcimed’s weekly digest of coronavirus news. This week, Alcimed examines both the public and economic benefits of cooperation and its impact on the health of the EU.
