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Industry News
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14 May 2019
UK rolls out new brain cancer treatment aid 5-ALA
Cancer treatment aid 5-ALA has been released across neurological centres in England.
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13 May 2019
Industry review on UK drug discovery emphasises future of AI and CCMs
Medicines Discovery Catapult (MDC) and the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA) have published their annual review of the medicines discovery industry in the UK, the State of the Discovery Nation 2019.
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13 May 2019
US states file lawsuit against 20 drugmakers accused of price-fixing
An antitrust lawsuit filed by 44 US states has alleged that 20 pharmaceutical companies that make generic drugs have collaborated to fix prices and reduce market competition.
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8 May 2019
WHO calls for expanded Ebola vaccination after cases rise in Congo
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that the target area for Ebola vaccine administration should be expanded after a rise in the number of cases over the last four...
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6 May 2019
World Asthma Day: can fevipiprant revolutionise asthma treatment?
World Asthma Day aims to raise awareness of the burden of asthma. Increasingly, the standard of care for asthma, reliever and preventer inhalers, are being discovered to be insufficient in...
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2 May 2019
Sanofi’s dengue vaccine secures FDA approval
Sanofi has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Dengvaxia, a vaccine that is designed to prevent all four dengue disease serotypes.
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30 April 2019
UN report outlines plan to address antimicrobial resistance
Drug-resistant diseases will be responsible for ten million deaths each year by 2050, warns a report by the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance.
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25 April 2019
$4.3m donated to PATH’s Visualise No Malaria scheme
At a World Malaria Day event in Paris, four technology companies have announced they will contribute $4.3m in technical support to healthcare non-profit PATH’s Visualise No Malaria project. The companies...
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25 April 2019
Zipline’s drone delivery of medical products expanded into Ghana
The Ghanaian Government and California-based automatic logistics company Zipline have launched a drone delivery network to distribute 148 priority products, including vaccines, blood products and medications, on demand to patients...
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23 April 2019
Malawi launches pilot of world’s first malaria vaccine
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the Government of Malawi has immunised the first children with RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S), the world’s first malaria vaccine.