Chris Lo

All articles by Chris Lo

1. WHO’s Essential Medicines List: discussing innovation and access

   In April this year, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines met…
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   2 Oct
2. Trouble at Teva: US price-fixing lawsuit adds to generic giant’s woes

   Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a titan of Israel’s pharmaceutical industry. Over the last 30 years the company has evolved into…
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   1 Aug
3. Drug development: the researchers driving an open-science approach

   As the era of personalised medicine and medical genetics continues to ramp up, it brings with it ambitions for more…
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   11 Apr
4. False flags: are search engines benefiting rogue online pharmacies?

   As consumer spending habits continue to shift from the high street into cyberspace, prompting a retail rush to meet online…
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   26 Mar
5. Where is the UK’s supply of Migraleve?

   Since mid-2018, there has been a conspicuous absence on the UK’s pharmacy shelves. Migraleve, an over-the-counter migraine relief medication distributed…
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   14 Mar
6. Moderna’s gamble: what’s behind biotech’s biggest-ever IPO?

   In December last year, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna Therapeutics smashed the record for the biotech industry’s largest initial public offering (IPO)….
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   21 Feb
7. antiSMASH: on the hunt for new antibiotics

   With an antimicrobial resistance crisis looming on the public health horizon and a generation of antibiotic treatments falling victim to…
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   11 Feb
8. Not so elementary, Watson: the roadblocks for AI in pharma

   Wherever you look in today’s rapidly evolving pharma industry, the shadow of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t far away. The high…
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   22 Jan
9. Going digital to improve clinical trial enrolment

   Clinical trials are the lifeblood of pharmaceutical R&D, but the experimental therapies of the future aren’t necessarily an easy sell…
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   19 Dec
10. Ebola in the DRC: vaccinating in a conflict zone

    More than two years after the West African Ebola epidemic was declared over, after claiming more than 11,000 lives in…
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    12 Dec