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NHS Trust harnesses AI to speed up treatment

May 22, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications AI, NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has teamed up with a provider of AI systems to introduce …

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450,000 missed breast cancer screenings, 270 lives potentially shortened

May 2, 2018
Medical Communications Jeremy Hunt, NHS, UK, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

An error in the automated system left 450,000 women without an invite for breast screening and Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s …

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UK Ministers call on Vertex to speed up price negotiations

April 23, 2018
Sales and Marketing NHS, NICE, Orkambi, UK government, Vertex, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

After a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons regarding making Orkambi available to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), MPs …

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Obesity admissions double in four years

April 5, 2018
Medical Communications NHS, UK, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

New figures show that hospital admissions related to obesity have doubled over the last four years in the UK, placing …

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Proton beam therapy finally arrives in UK

April 4, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development NHS, Proton beam therapy, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

28 years after the US first pioneered proton beam therapy at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the UK now has …

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One centre for cancer diagnoses trialled

April 3, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

NHS England is trialling centres that should be able to provide rapid answers as to whether a patient has cancer …

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May hints at providing long-term funding plan for NHS

March 28, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development Conservatives, NHS, Theresa May, UK government, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

After the news broke earlier in the week of a group of nearly 100 MPs calling for a parliamentary commission …

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May faces pressure for cross-party talks over NHS future

March 26, 2018
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, Theresa May, UK government, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

A group of close to 100 MPs have demanded that Theresa May set up a parliamentary commission to plot the …

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Rising levels of opioid prescriptions puts NHS under pressure

March 16, 2018
Medical Communications NHS, biotech, drugs, opioid, pharma, pharmaceutical

It has been found that the number of prescriptions being written for opioid painkillers has risen from 10 million to …

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Hammond suggests NHS may receive cash boost

March 14, 2018
Medical Communications, Research and Development Autumn Budget, NHS, UK, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

The pressures on the NHS over the winter months exposed serious cracks in the service, with issues regarding underfunding, struggles …

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Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week

March 9, 2018
Business Services, Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AbbVie, Biogen, Celgene, EMA, Gilead, HIV, Herceptin, Japan, NHS, Ontruzant, Sanofi, opioid crisis, opioids, pharma, real world data, top ten, zinbryta

After a particularly jarring bout of cold weather and snow, we may just have seen off the worst of winter …

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NHS trials “world-leading” initiative to cut prostate cancer diagnoses to just days

March 5, 2018
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, MRI, NHS, pharma, prostate cancer

The NHS has revealed plans to cut the average diagnosis times for prostate cancer from six weeks to less than …

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UK Government announces prescription price hike to record level

February 27, 2018
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing NHS, pharma, prescription, price

The UK Government has announced plans to increase prescription charges by 20p, or 2.3%, to a record £8.80, effective 1 …

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UK to crack down on 237m annual medication errors

February 23, 2018
Medical Communications Jeremy Hunt, NHS, biotech, drugs, pharma, pharmaceutical

A new study commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care has revealed that 237 million medication errors are …

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Smartphone ECG device KardiaMobile rolled out to NHS to combat atrial fibrillation

February 14, 2018
Research and Development KardiaMobile, NHS, atrial fibrillation, pharma

AliveCor has announced that it has begun the rollout of its KardiaMobile technology to the NHS via the UK’s Academic …

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