The Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA) and The Cancer Council Australia have welcomed Health Minister Tony Abbott’s commitment of $15 million towards a network of centres for adolescents and young adults with cancer. “One in 100 Australians is diagnosed with cancer by the age of 30 - in most cases an aggressive or complex cancer such as a brain tumour, melanoma, lymphoma or leukaemia,” COSA President, Professor David Goldstein, said. [click link for full article]

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What: Approximately one-third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes TB, and an estimated 1.6 million people died of the disease in 2005. Currently, TB patients must adhere to a complex treatment regimen over a six- to nine-month period. This demanding schedule often results in patients skipping treatment doses, which has given rise to drug-resistant strains of M. [click link for full article]

The vast majority of patients who had a successful result with the percutaneous MitraClip device did not need mitral valve surgery three years after their procedure, and many benefited from significantly improved function of the left ventricle (commonly known as reverse remodeling), according to data presented at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s (CRF) nineteenth annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) symposium in Washington, D.C. [click link for full article]