EMA Highlights: Research data sharing to be ‘user friendly’
by Gary Finnegan – The EU medicines regulator has rejigged its plan on how clinical trial data will be shared with health professionals, after intense lobbying by doctors,… read more.
by Gary Finnegan – The EU medicines regulator has rejigged its plan on how clinical trial data will be shared with health professionals, after intense lobbying by doctors,… read more.
by Gary Finnegan – The European Medicines Agency is drawing up a list of legally-operating online pharmacies as part of an EU-wide crackdown on falsified medicines.
An international research team led by Cesar A. Arias, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has identified a new superbug that… read more.
World Health Matters: Finland by Gary Finnegan – A new study by Finnish researchers suggests that overweight children with a common mutation in the PNPLA3 gene can suffer… read more.
World Health Matters: Italy by Gary Finnegan – Alcoholic liver disease is one of the most common reasons for liver transplantation but around half of liver transplant recipients… read more.
World Health Matters: Australia by Gary Finnegan – Highly virulent forms of the influenza virus can cause serious illness and may be fatal. Some of the damage is… read more.
World Health Matters: Sweden by Gary Finnegan – A newly discovered tick-borne bacterium known as Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis has been implicated in six cases of disease in Sweden…. read more.
Adding canola oil to the diet improved glycemic control and reduced cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetes in one study, while an overall healthier diet reduced risk of… read more.
by René Adam, Guiseppe Tisone and Wolf Bechstein – with ever better immunosuppression regimens, outcomes in liver transplantation have improved beyond what anyone could have imagined when the… read more.
Despite some concerns to the contrary, the use of insulin glargine (Lantus) is not associated with an increased risk of any cancer in people with diabetes or prediabetes,… read more.
A bihormonal “artificial pancreas” improved glycemic control and led to less hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes patients, researchers reported here.
by Christine Clark – Insulin ranks among the top 10 ‘high-alert’ or high-risk medicines worldwide. (ref NPSA/2011/PSA003) It is also been an important cause of hospital admissions, mainly… read more.
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