Medical Communications

People or profit: What is the best system to regulate drug prices?

March 30, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing

Conor Kavanagh investigates the role state healthcare institutions play in negotiating drug prices, and what steps can be taken for …

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FDA invokes emergency powers to authorise 30-minute, handheld COVID-19 test

March 27, 2020 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing COVID-19, FDA, Mesa Biotech, US, coronavirus

The FDA invoked Emergency Use Authorization powers to approve a rapid, handheld testing kit for COVID-19 coronavirus cases just days …

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US now leads world in COVID-19 cases as report warns it could face 80,000 deaths in four months

March 27, 2020 Medical Communications, Research and Development

The US now leads the world in total number of COVID-19 cases with more than 85,500 positives, ahead of China’s …

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus

March 27, 2020 Medical Communications COVID-19, Coroanvirus

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, developing mild symptoms over the last 24 hours which included …

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Teva donates millions of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets, touted by Trump as coronavirus treatment

March 27, 2020 Medical Communications Trump, coronavirus

Teva pharmaceuticals have said they will provide ten million doses of its anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which President Trump has been …

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COVID-19 may significantly hurt the drug supply chains of the biggest pharmaceutical companies

March 27, 2020 Medical Communications COVID-19, Coroanvirus, Wuhan Coronavirus, china coronavirus

The increasing spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic threatens the drug supply lines of the biggest pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca, …

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Eyeforpharma Barcelona 2020 is now a free virtual event

March 25, 2020 Medical Communications, Research and Development COVID-19, Eyeforpharma Barcelona 2020, coronavirus, events, eyeforpharma, pharma

In light of the rapidly evolving impact of the COVID-19 virus, eyeforpharma has decided to turn eyeforpharma Barcelona 2020 into …

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Sustainability and security: How packaging is modernising pharma

March 24, 2020 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing counterfeit medicines, falsified medicines, feature, packaging, pharma

In a world living in the shadow of substandard and falsified medicines, climate change and antimicrobial resistance, pharmaceutical packaging will …

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COVID-19: Gilead freezes compassionate access to remdesivir due to “overwhelming demand”, BMS and Lilly delay new study launches

March 24, 2020 Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Gilead, Roche, cornavirus, pharma

As national governments continue to ramp up measures to contain the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, so too are pharma and …

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AI may help predict patient response to non-small cell lung cancer therapies

March 23, 2020 Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Lesions, cancer treatment, tumour treatment

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to train algorithms to predict tumour sensitivity to systemic cancer therapies. Radiologists previously determined if …

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