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24 Feb 2014:

Creating a new ecosystem for drug discovery

This industry needs to forget about intellectual property and pool resources if it is to have any real hope of discovering innovative new medicines, a leading scientist claims. - News - PharmaTimes

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/creating_a_new_ecosystem_for_drug_discovery_1001571

24 Jan 2008:

Europe reports two Gardasil deaths, but confirms benefits

Sanofi Pasteur MSD’s top-selling Gardasil has been thrust into the spotlight again after the European Medicines Agency said there have been two sudden and unexpected deaths in young women who had received the vaccine as a prevention against

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/europe_reports_two_gardasil_deaths,_but_confirms_benefits_985912

26 Mar 2007:

Nod for claimants to pursue AD High Court challenge

Eisai, its co-promotion partner Pfizer, and the Alzheimer’s Society, are preparing to embark on the next step towards judicial review after being given a nod of approval to pursue their High Court challenge against the UK’s cost-effectiveness

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/nod_for_claimants_to_pursue_ad_high_court_challenge_989601

24 May 2007:

Lancet calls for calm as Avandia fiasco spirals

Influential journal The Lancet has pinned its flag to the pole and, in an editorial issued this week, called for a “calmer and more considered approach” to the fiasco surrounding GlaxoSmithKline’s blockbuster diabetes therapy Avandia

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/lancet_calls_for_calm_as_avandia_fiasco_spirals_989947

27 Mar 2007:

Pfizer’s ‘good’ cholesterol drug failed to slow atherosclerosis

Pfizer’s one time star in its pipeline failed in a major clinical study to slow the progression of atherosclerosis – the furring of arteries – and simultaneously raised blood pressure, according to the full results from a 1,188-patient trial

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/pfizers_good_cholesterol_drug_failed_to_slow_atherosclerosis_989608

27 Aug 2009:

NEJM & BMJ editors to challenge pharma conducting its own…

The pharmaceutical industry faces an ethical dilemma when it conducts trials on its own drugs, Dr Jeffrey Drazen Editor in Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and Dr Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief of British Medical Journal, will argue in

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/nejm_and_bmj_editors_to_challenge_pharma_conducting_its_own_clinical_trials_983749

29 Jul 2014:

Indefinite delay for care.data after patient fiasco

The government’s mammoth data sharing scheme care.data could be on hold for as long as two-to-three years, some experts believe, because of nervousness over issues of privacy, consent, anonymity and commercial exploitation in the use of NHS

by Claire Bowie and Selina McKee

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/indefinite_delay_for_care.data_after_patient_fiasco_1002264

17 Jan 2008:

Damning new report says branded medicines are overprescribed

Branded medicines are overprescribed, according to a damning new report from the Committee of Public Accounts, which says the pharmaceutical industry spends more than £850 million annually on marketing its products to GPs. - News - PharmaTimes

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/damning_new_report_says_branded_medicines_are_overprescribed_985972

25 May 2007:

Focus shifts to Merck’s Gardasil as new adverse events uncovered

With all eyes firmly on GlaxoSmithKline’s Avandia (rosiglitazone) all week in the wake of a New England Journal of Medicine data meta-analysis showing a massive increase in the risk of cardiovascular events associated with the diabetes drug, it

by Claire Bowie

https://www.pharmatimes.com/news/focus_shifts_to_mercks_gardasil_as_new_adverse_events_uncovered_989956