Category list : Pharmaceutical companies
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Almost 1,500 pharma firms could miss FMD deadline, warns body in charge
Around 1,500 pharmaceutical companies are at risk of failure to comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive because they have yet to start working with the European Medicines Verification Organisation, the body has warned.
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Exclusive deal for Boots as sildenafil becomes P medicine
Boots UK strikes two-week deal with Pfizer to exclusively sell sildenafil over the counter after its reclassification from a prescription-only medicine to a pharmacy medicine.
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Dealing with medicines misuse in execution by lethal injection Subscription
New standards of industry best practice have been established for implementing distribution controls on drugs that could be used for execution
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CCGs failed to declare hundreds of payments from drug companies, BMJ investigation reveals
Clinical commissioning groups in England failed to publicly declare a third of all payments accepted from pharmaceutical companies, the private sector and charities between 2015 and 2017.
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Pharma companies may be less likely to invest in the UK post-Brexit, MPs told
UK patient involvement in clinical trials will diminish post-Brexit making manufactures less likely to want to invest here, MPs on the House of Commons Health Select Committee were told.
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Artificial Intelligence: will it change the way drugs are discovered? Subscription
The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to invest in artificial intelligence (AI), with many large pharmaceutical companies partnering with AI start-ups in 2017 in order to develop better diagnostics or biomarkers, to identify drug targets and to design new drugs. But when will the first AI-designed drugs reach the market and will AI permanently change the pharmaceutical industry and the way drugs are discovered?
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LloydsPharmacy to open healthcare centres across England
High street pharmacy chain LloydsPharmacy is to open a series of healthcare centres around England, providing infusion, testing and screening services
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NICE asks Merck to submit Cancer Drugs Fund proposal for immunotherapy drug
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has asked pharmaceutical company, Merck, to submit a Cancer Drugs Fund proposal for its immunotherapy drug avelumab (Bavencio; Merck)
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Sildenafil to be reclassified to P medicine
Sildenafil is to be formally reclassified from a prescription only medicine to a pharmacy medicine, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has announced.
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NHS faces legal action for prescribing cheaper drug off label for sight loss
Two drug companies are threatening legal action against NHS doctors over plans to prescribe a cheaper off-label drug to treat wet age-related macular degeneration.
