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