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Antibiotic prescriptions falling across England, but higher in deprived areas

November 12, 2015
Medical Communications Antibiotics, prescribing

New data reveals that while antibiotic prescriptions have fallen across England in the last three years, struggling GP practices in …

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R&D firms team up to tackle antibiotic resistance

September 16, 2015
Research and Development AMR, Antibiotics, Jim O'Neill, O'Neill review, antimicrobial resistance, drug development

Two companies at the centre of the UK’s R&D efforts to tackle the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics are expanding …

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New NICE guidelines to tackle antibiotic ‘addiction’

August 18, 2015
Manufacturing and Production AMR, Antibiotics, NICE, antimicrobial resistance, guidance, infections

NICE has published guidance to help health care professionals promote and monitor the sensible use of antibiotics – and support …

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Antibiotic resistance

Rising to meet the infectious disease challenge

July 27, 2015
Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, R&D, antibiotic resistance, infectious disease

Antibiotic-resistant infections gather more headlines than most other infectious disease topics, and have typically been seen as a neglected area …

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AMR test

Coalition launches to tackle AMR

June 10, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AMR, Antibiotic Discovery-UK, Antibiotics, coalition, global

A new, not-for-profit coalition has launched with a mission to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and what it sees as the …

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Merck launches new antibiotic in the UK

June 5, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AMR, Antibiotics, MSD, Merck, Sivextro, antimicrobial resistance, cubist, tedizolid phosphate

Merck has launched the first new drug in a class of antibiotics in the UK in almost 15 years, becoming …

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NICE unveils guidelines to monitor antibiotic prescribing

February 18, 2015
Sales and Marketing AMR, Antibiotics, GPs, NHS, NICE, antimicrobials, baker

NICE are asking UK doctors to spy on their colleagues in order to help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial …

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Roche teams up to tackle antibiotics resistance

January 13, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, Fedora, Meiji, OP0595, Roche, Teixobactin

Roche is to collaborate with Japan-based pharma firm Meiji and Canadian Fedora – two companies specialising in the production of …

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moxifloxacin

Next-generation Cempra antibiotic meets endpoints

January 5, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, FDA, cempra, moxifloxacin, solitaire-oral

Cempra Pharmaceuticals has become the first company to publish results from a Phase III study completed under FDA regulations governing …

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Zerbaxa

Cubist boosts antibiotics market presence

December 22, 2014
Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, Zerbaxa, antimicrobial resistance, bacteria, cubist, infections, infectious diseases

Cubist has followed-up its successful European approval for a new antibiotic by winning an endorsement by the US FDA. The …

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Antibiotic resistance could kill 10 million a year

December 11, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, Cancer, KPMG, Merck, david cameron, rand

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria will kill an extra 10 million people a year by 2050 if the problem is not tackled soon, …

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Updated: Merck buys antibiotics specialist Cubist

December 8, 2014
Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, Merck, Novartis, cubicin, cubist, eumer

Merck has purchased US antibiotics maker Cubist in a deal valued at $9.5 billion. The acquisition values Cubist at around …

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NICE recommends test to reduce antibiotic use

December 3, 2014
Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, GPs, NICE, UK, doctors, icl, pneumonia

NICE guidelines say GPs should use point of care blood tests to assess which patients to prescribe antibiotics for bacterial …

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Antibiotics: will the industry saviour please stand up

November 24, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, EAA, MRC, WHO, resistance, susie lunt

The spectre of a new ‘dark ages’ for humanity where common infections begin to kill again is increasingly making itself …

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Antibiotic resistance ranking high among public concerns

November 18, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Antibiotics, Cameron, WHO, longitude, rees, terrorism

People in the UK believe antibiotic resistance is second only to terrorism among threats to the public, according to a …

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