ADCs breach barriers to become mainstream cancer treatment
The antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) manufacturing landscape offers the potential to leverage significant opportunities for cancer treatment, but faces complex challenges.…
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Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe
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Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe is a freelance journalist, and has written about mental health, fertility, and new pharmaceutical discoveries. In her reporting, she explores people in the healthcare industry and the wider world from scientific, sociological, legal, technological, environmental and leadership perspectives.
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Injectables manufacturing ushers in a new era of accessibility
The pharmaceutical injectables market is gaining more traction as vaccines and the development of biological drugs such as cell and…
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What is the pharmacy of the future?
In the post-Covid-19 era, drug shortages are putting extra strain on pharmacists and patients. Pharmacists are trying to manage stock…
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Preparing for DSCSA transition with tech-led compliance
Born from the urgent need to protect consumers from unsafe medications and a push from legislatures, the US Drug Supply…
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Blockchain leaders finesse tech to find fake drugs
The pharmaceutical supply chain is at the hub of a $1.27trn industry. Yet due to its inherent sophistication and fragmentation,…
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Compounding pharmacies caught in counterfeit controversy
Compounding pharmacies have increasingly been at the centre of safety concerns around the legitimacy and credibility of medications, especially obesity…
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Will WHO’s new guidance spur hepatitis B immunisation?
Despite vaccine developments signalling advancements in the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of hepatitis B, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2024…
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Can supermarket pharmacies plug urgent healthcare gaps?
In April, retail giant Asda launched its online prescription service, marking a major milestone and “first” for a supermarket in…
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Lula’s progress plan for Brazil: A year on
On 30 May 2023, President Lula da Silva assembled the first South American summit in nearly a decade. In reviving…
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Harnessing pharmacovigilance to turn reactive investigation into active discovery
Pharmacovigilance uses science and action to detect, assess, understand and prevent adverse events (AEs) or other issues relating to medicines…