Chimps stuck in labs despite retirement vow

Despite a promise more than a year and half ago by the National Institutes of Health to retire the vast majority of government research chimpanzees to sanctuaries, hundreds of chimps are still being held for potential medical experimentation, many of them aging and...

New drug hope for blood cancers

A new pill launched in the UK has the potential to transform the treatment of blood cancers, it is claimed. Currently ibrutinib, marketed as Imbruvica, can be given to patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia or refractory mantle cell lymphoma .