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Big Pharma News

AstraZeneca may cut UK jobs if a biodiversity profit levy is introduced

The Guardian - 25-Oct-2024

UK is considering enforcing these profit-sharing measures nationally

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Decoding the immune system: how AI is revolutionizing disease research

Health Europa - 26-Apr-2024

AI unlocks new insights into the complexities of the immune system

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$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

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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

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AI-crafted proteins: ProGen paves the way for a new era in biotechnology

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - 26-Jan-2023

ProGen AI designs artificial enzymes, revolutionizing protein engineering and biotechnology

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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Treating elderly is an issue - clinical trials use young, healthy test subjects

Guardian - 29-Oct-2019

Multimorbidity + polypharmacy = too many combinations to test

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Times Book Review: Too Many Pills

The Times - 27-May-2018

Preventing overmedication may lead to reduced death rates and hospital admissions

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We Need a Different Approach to Drug Discovery

Fortune - 12-Mar-2018

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Predicting mirror image of drug compounds can save money

BBC - 05-Jan-2018

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Doctors promoting treatments on social media fail to disclose ties to drug makers

STAT - 29-Feb-2016

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Big Pharma costs hundreds of thousands of lives with biased info

Independent - 24-Feb-2016

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Efficacy of new drugs compared to older ones not dramatic

Formulary - 04-Jul-2013

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