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Health matters: preventing cardiovascular disease
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New partners join £9.5 million dementia drug discovery collaboration
The Dementia Consortium welcomes Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Takeda and Evotec to join the unique £9.5 million dementia drug discovery collaboration. This second phase...
New antibiotic prescribing guidance for patients with suspected pneumonia
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and Public Health England have published new antibiotic prescribing guidance for patients with suspected pneumonia. These...
Diagnosing Lyme disease if bull’s eye rash is present – NICE quality standard
Doctors should be diagnosing Lyme disease if bull’s eye rash is present, says NICE as it launches its Lyme disease NICE quality standard consultation.
The...
The Topol Review: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future
The Topol Review: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future has been published and it makes recommendations to enable NHS staff to...
Research into chemotherapy dose intensity and breast cancer
New research into chemotherapy dose intensity and breast cancer finds that giving chemotherapy drugs every two weeks instead of the usual every three weeks...
Competition enforcement contributes to affordable and innovative medicines
The European Commission has published a report showing that active competition law enforcement, at EU and national level, in the pharmaceutical sector contributes to...
Origins of depression brought into focus in large-scale gene study
The origins of depression have been brought into focus in a large-scale gene study, involving more than two million people. Hundreds of genes have been newly-linked...
Mapping oesophageal cancer genes leads to new drug targets
Mutations that cause oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) have been mapped in unprecedented detail – unveiling that many could be targeted by drugs currently in trials...
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Wasdell Group expands portfolio with Honeywood acquisition
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