Content by Roisin McGuigan:

Disease Area Public health

Sepsis and Serendipity

| Roisin McGuigan

Could an accidental discovery lead to a cure for sepsis?

Research Field Diagnostics & prognostics

Better Biopsies for Amyloidosis

| Roisin McGuigan

Diagnosis of familial amyloid polyneuropathy can be both tricky and slow – but a different approach could hold the answer

Research Field Clinical trials

Trials and Tribulations

| Roisin McGuigan

If prospective registration is enforced for clinical trials, questionable results become easier to spot

Outside the Lab Drug delivery

The Cost of Treating Cancer

| Roisin McGuigan

When you crunch the numbers on drug development, are the costs of cancer drugs justified?

Research Field Genetics

Kallikrein Dream

| Roisin McGuigan

Eleftherios P. Diamandis, Hold ’em for Life Chair in Prostate Cancer Biomarkers, University of Toronto.

Research Field Microbiology

Built for Speed

| Roisin McGuigan

UTIs account for many antibiotic prescriptions; could a new POC test help selective prescribing?

Research Field Respiratory

A Breath of Fresh Air?

| Roisin McGuigan

Regulating the production of alpha-synuclein may be a new approach for treating Parkinson’s

Disease Area Public health

Getting the Vaccine Message Across

| Roisin McGuigan

Some common strategies to dispel vaccine myths may instead be making the situation worse.

Research Field Cell & molecular biology

Translating Science into Signs

| Roisin McGuigan

The lack of scientific terms available in sign language could be holding deaf scientists back…

Outside the Lab Clinical trials

Too Pregnant to Participate

| Roisin McGuigan

Are current ethical guidelines for clinical studies letting pregnant women down?

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