Ai in drug discovery faces data challenges and biases
Nature - 27-Feb-2025Researchers call for better data quality, transparency, and standardization
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AstraZeneca may cut UK jobs if a biodiversity profit levy is introduced
The Guardian - 25-Oct-2024UK is considering enforcing these profit-sharing measures nationally
Decoding the immune system: how AI is revolutionizing disease research
Health Europa - 26-Apr-2024AI unlocks new insights into the complexities of the immune system
$200 billion bet on drug that could make us all live better, longer
Libraries for the Future - 09-Dec-2023Clinical trials for the ageing drug could potentially be completed in 3-6 years
BBC reports on two different uses of AI in pharmaceutical healthcare
BBC - 17-Apr-2023Genetika+ tests drugs against a patient's own cells; Insilico Medicine is slashing the time taken for drug discovery
AI-crafted proteins: ProGen paves the way for a new era in biotechnology
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - 26-Jan-2023ProGen AI designs artificial enzymes, revolutionizing protein engineering and biotechnology
Alex Zhavoronkov explains why AI can help in peer reviewing drug development research
Nature Biotechnology - 14-Sep-2020An automated sense-check of publications sounds like a good idea
AI reduces drug discovery from years to days - and that's just the start
Singularity Hub - 23-Jul-2020Insilico Medicine is slashing the cost of drug development
Evidence based on male-centric models of medical research to treat women?
Guardian - 24-May-2020When treating a female patient consider how significant sex differences can be
Downhill trend of the demand for consumer genomics
New Scientist - 07-Feb-2020They are laying off staff now as their profits are not as high as before
Clinical trials now up for Exscientia's world first AI-made drug
pharmaphorum - 30-Jan-2020Partnering with Japan's DSP, a milestone is reached in OCD treatment
"Cruelty-free" preclinical drug testing is possible
Wyss Institute - 27-Jan-2020Body-on-Chips platform is created by connecting 10 organ-chips to mimic normal human blood flow
GSK on artificial intelligence drive to develop drugs faster
Guardian - 25-Dec-2019The more people looking at clever new ways to beat cancer the better
Treating elderly is an issue - clinical trials use young, healthy test subjects
Guardian - 29-Oct-2019Multimorbidity + polypharmacy = too many combinations to test
Aspen pharmaceutical firm infringes the arrangement with NHS
Independent - 03-Oct-2019Monopolist Aspen got the opportunity to raise the price of essential NHS medicine by 1,800 per cent
New drugs lack proof of added benefit over existing drugs
Medical Xpress - 10-Jul-2019Old drugs are just as good as those new drugs - pharmaceutical mafia in action
Competitors in big pharma accused of conspiring to inflate generic drug prices
Independent - 12-May-2019Inflated prices of more than 100 generic drugs by as much as 1000 per cent
New drugs can be unsafe leading to recalls
Harvard Health Publishing - 02-May-2019The high rate of alerts and warnings maybe the result of post-approval monitoring
FDA manipulates approval process of a high-strength opioid painkiller
Guardian - 24-Jan-2019FDA only just sits back and watch as people succumb to this opioid crisis
Times Book Review: Too Many Pills
The Times - 27-May-2018Preventing overmedication may lead to reduced death rates and hospital admissions
We Need a Different Approach to Drug Discovery
Fortune - 12-Mar-2018Discovery of new cardiovascular medicines at lowest point in decades.
Predicting mirror image of drug compounds can save money
BBC - 05-Jan-2018Researchers developed an algorithm to test whether drugs are likely to undergo racemisation.
Doctors promoting treatments on social media fail to disclose ties to drug makers
STAT - 29-Feb-2016US physicians often fail to mention that they have accepted thousands of dollars from the companies that make the prescription drugs they tout.
Big Pharma costs hundreds of thousands of lives with biased info
Independent - 24-Feb-2016King’s Fund health think tank claims there is a systemic lack of transparency in the information being given to doctors.
Efficacy of new drugs compared to older ones not dramatic
Formulary - 04-Jul-2013The study was published in the Health Affairs journal.
