Analysis of the drugs that were approved for use by the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in England has shown that the fund was not good value for patients and society and may have resulted in patients suffering unnecessarily from toxic side effects of the drugs....
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A new Veterinary Medicines Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2019/6) has been introduced to modernise the existing rules on the authorisation and use of veterinary medicines in the European Union (EU). This becomes applicable on 28 January 2022. The regulation contains new measures for increasing the availability and safety of veterinary medicines and enhances EU action against antimicrobial resistance. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is working closely with the European Commission and other EU pa...
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Historically, traditional small molecule products were the focus of the pharmaceutical industry. This was especially the case between 2010 and 2013, when many of the blockbuster brand name medications—those grossing more than $1 billion in annual sales—lost their patent protection....
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Harvard Medical School News
Emergency room patients treated by physicians who prescribe opioids more often are at greater risk for long–term opioid use even after a single prescription than those who see less–frequent prescribers, according to the findings of a study from Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health....
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Chasing biosim partners Mylan and Biocon for one of the top sales targets in the pharma industry, Celltrion reported Sunday that its version of Roche’s breast cancer med Herceptin stacked up to the reference blockbuster in a late-stage trial....
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AbbVie investors are calling for a separation of powers in the C-suite, citing Chairman and CEO Richard Gonzalez's outsized pay package and the company's "thicket" of Humira patents. In an SEC filing Monday, AbbVie investor and Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner threw his weight behind a shareholder resolution that would split the board chairman and CEO positions after Gonzalez leaves the company. Magaziner ticked off a series of reasons why AbbVie needs more oversig...
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