Latest Version of HealthPACT Bulletin

18th January 2012

The second issue of the HealthPACT Bulletin for 2011 was published in December 2011. The issue is packed with summaries of emerging health technologies:

• Technologies for the inactivation of pathogens in blood products

• Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumours

• Extracorporeal photopheresis for the treatment of graft-versus-host disease

• Total artificial heart

• Faecal microbiota transplantation

• Selective internal radiation therapy for the treatment of liver cancer

• MRI-guided, high-intensity focussed ultrasound for the treatment of cancer

• High sensitivity troponin assays for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction