Europe

Statement by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, calling on drug industry to re-organize supply chain and production lines.

Britain’s antitrust watchdog said it has suspended two investigations into pharmaceutical companies that it suspects of illegally colluding on the price of drugs.

The Cancer Research UK (CRUK) funds nearly half of the cancer research in the country.

Compassionate use programmes are intended to give patients with a life-threatening, long-lasting or seriously disabling disease and no available treatment options, access to treatments that are still under development and that have not yet received a mark

European Union countries will have access to the medicines they need to care for coronavirus sufferers, the bloc’s industry chief Thierry Breton said on Thursday, adding pharmaceutical companies were doubling production to address shortages.

The EMA restricts use of malaria drugs for coronavirus.

Woman was left infertile after NHS trust failed to detect signs of cervical cancer.

The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has added 135 medicines to its list of medicines that cannot be parallel exported from the UK.

Testing and tracing must resume urgently.

The upcoming NICE Methods Review begs the question: at what price does a drug represent value for money to the NHS?

Hundreds of community pharmacies face an “imminent risk” of going under without urgent government support.

The guidelines cover critical care, delivery of systemic anticancer treatments, and dialysis service delivery.

Scientists at the University of Oxford are developing a vaccine against COVID-19, the disease caused by the current coronavirus pandemic. They are recruiting people in the UK to take part in trials.