The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has announced that an “exciting development” could increase the number of livers which can be safely used for transplantation.
16th January 2019
A study carried out by researchers from the University of Cambridge, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in the US among others has shown how putting different genetic and risk factor data into a prediction equation could help us understand how likely a woman is to develop breast cancer.
16th January 2019
GlaxoSmithKline subsidiary Adriatic Acquisition Corporation (AAC) has extended the expiration date for its tender offer for US-based Tesaro.
16th January 2019
Pharmaceutical groups weigh in on the UK parliament’s rejection of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
16th January 2019
Over a thousand people with psychosis are still waiting for treatment on the NHS.
16th January 2019
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has begun to produce its first ever ‘Professional Standards for Community Pharmacy Services’.
16th January 2019
Merck’s Keytruda has been found to reduce risk of death by 31% compared to chemotherapy, when used in previously treated patients with advanced esophageal or esophagogastric junction carcinoma, whose tumours express PD-L1.
15th January 2019
Responding to the NHS’ long-term funding plan, experts have cautioned that for progress to be made, the funding must be protected for an appropriate time period.
15th January 2019
The European Commission has approved Bristol-Myers Squibb's Opdivo in combination with low-dose Yervoy for first-line treatment of patients with intermediate and poor risk advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
15th January 2019
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has recommended four medicines - including Roche's breast cancer drug Perjeta - for use on the NHS.
15th January 2019
Seqirus has announced European approval of its new cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine.
15th January 2019
Health Canada has placed restrictions on Allergan's uterine fibroid treatment Esmya, after discovering a possible link between its use and the risk of a rare but serious liver injury.
15th January 2019
Environment secretary Michael Gove has launched a new 'world leading plan' to tackle air pollution.
14th January 2019
A new report on current trends in Schizophrenia services in the UK launched by Janssen has found that mental health services are falling behind physical health services.
14th January 2019
Speed of recruitment and demand for a trial assessing the impact of HIV prevention therapy PrEP has significantly exceeded initial predictions, leading researchers to consider increasing the number of participants from 13,000 to up to 26,000.
14th January 2019
