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Santen joins inaugural Global Summit for Eye Health as partner
August 14, 2026Global Summit for Eye Health, Santen, world health organization
Santen Pharmaceutical has become a High Impact Partner for the inaugural Global Summit for Eye Health, joining governments, international organisations …
WHO releases Medical Product Alert for contaminated cough syrup
July 20, 2023Medical Communications Pharmacy, WHO, cough syrups, medical product alert, world health organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) has shared a Medical Product Alert for an additional contaminated cough syrup medicine identified in …
WHO leaves breakthrough cancer therapies off updated Essential Medicines List
July 10, 2019Research and Development Cancer, EML, WHO, essential medicines list, oncology, pharma, world health organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its list of essential medicines to include 28 more drugs. The WHO’s Essential …
Antibiotic development is inadequate to meet global resistance threat, WHO warns
September 20, 2017Research and Development WHO, antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial resistance, pharma, pharmaceutical, world health organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a report indicating that worldwide development of new antibiotics is not keeping pace …
Takeda secures $312 million zika vaccine development contract
September 5, 2016Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Takeda, US government, Zika, world health organization
Takeda has announced that it has been granted a $312 million contract from the US government to develop an inactivated, …
EMA backs GSK’s malaria vaccine for use in Africa
July 24, 2015Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing CHMP, Committee for Medicinal Products for Human USE, EMA, European Medicines Agency, GSK, WHO, malaria, world health organization
GSK has taken a significant step forward toward being the first company to bring a malaria vaccine to market, after …
Novartis receives WHO nod for malaria drug Coartem
July 17, 2015Manufacturing and Production Coartem, Novartis, WHO, antimalarial, malaria, world health organization
The World Health Organization will add Novartis’ antimalarial treatment Coartem to the prequalified list of vaccines that is supplies to …
Novo Nordisk obesity drug is launched in the US
April 23, 2015Sales and Marketing Novo Nordisk, liraglutide, obesity, overweight, saxenda, world health organization
Novo Nordisk is rolling out its obesity drug Saxenda across the US for the treatment of obese adult patients. Saxanda …
WHO: New measures needed to reduce high drug costs
March 26, 2015Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Europe, WHO, pricing, transparency, world health organization
New approaches to drug pricing and reimbursement are needed to make sure pharma provides access to new medicines, according to …
Charity challenges Sovaldi patent
February 10, 2015Sales and Marketing Gilead, HCV, Médecins du Monde, sofosbuvir, sovaldi, world health organization
Doctors of the World (also known as Médecins du Monde) has filed an opposition to the patent for Gilead’s blockbuster …
Untested Ebola drugs can be used in Africa
August 13, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Ebola, Siga Technologies, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, WHO, world health organization, zmapp
The World Health Organization will allow untested treatments for Ebola to be used in West Africa as the death toll …
WHO: ‘Common infections will kill again’
May 1, 2014Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AMR, WHO, global, infection, world health organization
The world is heading for a situation where common infections which have long been thought to be no threat to …
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