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Brexit effect
EMA @ Amsterdam
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will relocate to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The decision was taken by the 27 EU Member States, and the Agency now has just over 16 months to prepare for the move and take up its operations in Amsterdam on 30 March, 2019, at the latest, EMA said. “Amsterdam ticks many of our boxes,” said EMA Executive Director Guido Rasi. EMA has to relocate due to the UK’s decision to withdraw from the EU.
Facing one’s demons
Avatar therapy for schizophrenia
An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory hallucination may help reduce symptoms, when provided alongside usual treatment, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal. The randomised controlled trial compared the avatar therapy to a form of supportive counselling (adapted specifically for the study). It found that avatar therapy was more effective at reducing hallucinations at 12-week follow-up, and had a large effect size.
Pledge to change
Committing to end TB
Earlier this month, 75 ministers agreed to take urgent action to end tuberculosis by 2030. The announcement came at the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Tuberculosis in the Sustainable Development Era, which brought together delegates from 114 countries in Moscow. The Moscow Declaration to End TB is a promise to increase multi-sectoral action as well as track progress, and build accountability. It will also inform the first UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on TB in 2018, which will seek further commitments from heads of States.
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