UK doctors fear job losses as government reshuffles healthcare spending
Patients in the UK could lose as many as 2,400 doctors under the government's Comprehensive Spending Review, the Royal College…
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Nikitha Ladda
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Two HIV-positive patients cleared of virus after bone marrow transplants
Two HIV-positive patients have been taken off their anti-retroviral drugs after bone marrow transplants seemed to clear the virus from…
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FDA awards Activartis brain cancer drug Orphan Drug Designation
Austrian biotech company Activartis has received Orphan Drug Designation for its cancer immunotherapy AV0113 from the US Food and Drug…
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Global raid seizes fake drugs worth $40.8m
Counterfeit and unlicensed drugs valued at $40.8m have been seized by the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) in a week-long…
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Sanofi’s Lyxumia approved to treat diabetes in Japan
French drug maker Sanofi has announced that its injectable diabetes treatment Lyxumia has been approved in Japan.Lyxumia (lixisenatide) is taken…
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Roche, AstraZeneca to share drug research data
Roche and AstraZeneca have launched a consortium that will share early research data related to drug design to accelerate the…
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Medicines Australia to expose drug company handouts to doctors
Healthcare professionals in Australia who accept payments from drug companies will be named and shamed on a public register, the…
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Tenofovir cuts HIV infection rates by half in drug users
The first clinical trial to assess whether antiretrovirals can reduce HIV transmission in injecting drug users has shown that tenofovir…
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Women in UK to be offered preventative breast cancer drugs
Hundreds of thousands of women in England and Wales with a family history of breast cancer could be given drugs…
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Astellas Pharma bags European approval for prostate cancer drug
The European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for Xtandi, an oral prostate cancer drug developed by Astellas Pharma and US-based…