A new payment site within Pay.gov will make it easier for companies that license inventions owned by the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration to make their royalty payments. Royalties are typically paid upfront for biological materials and over the term of a commercial patent license.

“Homeopathy will continue to be available on the NHS despite an influential health committee condemning it as medically unproven,” reported The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper, together with several other media outlets, was reporting the Department of Health’s response to a report by the House of Commons cross-party Select Committee on Science and Technology, published in February

Some new technology is making the treatment process for cancer patients a little easier.

An experimental technique has allowed a woman to successfully have two children after chemotherapy, several newspapers have reported. The mother, Dr Stinne Bergholdt of Denmark, had part of her right ovary removed and frozen prior to chemotherapy for a rare bone cancer. Although the powerful anti-cancer drugs made her infertile, she was later able to conceive two children once the frozen tissue was thawed and re-implanted.

A new genetic test could be used to detect cancer cells lingering after treatment, according to several newspapers. They also say the technology could be used to tailor treatments to each patient’s genetic cancer profile. This story is based on a press release highlighting the development of a blood test that is able to detect DNA released by tumours in the bloodstream.

“Scientists at Oxford University have found a way of keeping vaccines stable without refrigeration,” the BBC website has reported. The news is based on research on using two special membranes to dry the viral particles used in vaccines in order to keep them stable when stored at warm temperatures. Normally these viral substances cannot stand warmer atmospheres for more than a few weeks, which means they need to be kept refrigerated

The prion proteins that the body produces “may keep nerves healthy”, BBC News reported. The website says that prions play a vital role in maintaining nerve health, and it is possible that an absence of prions causes diseases of the central nervous system