As consumers and health systems move toward greater reliance on self-care, regulatory and clinical decision making should be improved through new tools to assess the unique benefits and challenges of self-care nonprescription [‘over-the-counter’, (OTC)] products, according to a new White Paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
16 November 2011
A new educational campaign is being launched in the UK to educate people with type 2 diabetes on ‘hypoglycaemia’ and how it can be prevented and managed. The ‘Are You Running on Empty?’ campaign is collaboration between Diabetes Nursing Group, TREND, The Automobile Association (AA) and MSD Diabetes.
08 November 2011
New research released today to mark European Week Against Pain reveals that, in more than half of cases, peoples’ levels of pain across Europe are not being adequately assessed.
10 October 2011
To coincide with the United Nations High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the research-based pharmaceutical industry has outlined the steps it is taking to address the rise of NCDs in the developing world.
26 September 2011
Trophos SA a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for indications with under-served needs in neurology and cardiology, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a patent for the use of their novel mitochondrial pore modulator, TRO40303, for cytoprotection. The patent provides coverage for the use of Trophos’ TRO40303 to reduce the cardiac reperfusion injury that contributes significantly to the morbidity and mortality seen after a heart attack [myocardial infarction (MI)].
26 August 2011
Confusing instructions on medicine bottles and packets of pills dispensed from UK pharmacies are to be replaced with simpler words and phrases from this month.
03 March 2011
A group of more than 40 industry, government and academic experts from all over Europe has reported that minipigs have many advantages for drug and chemical safety testing and could improve drug safety for humans.
04 November 2010
Last week, pharmaceutical heads met as a result of a drug recall after a mix up of breast cancer pills. The mishap raises the question: ‘Is there enough regulation to protect patients?’
21 October 2010
EFPIA, the voice of the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Europe, has welcomed the European Parliament’s adoption of the Commission’s proposal on pharmacovigilance.
22 September 2010
An invasive species of shrimp, commonly known as the ‘killer shrimp’, has been found at Grafham Water reservoir in Cambridgeshire – the first time the shrimp has been found in the UK.
10 September 2010