A World Health Organization-led scheme to supply COVID-19 drugs to poor countries is betting on experimental monoclonal antibody treatments and steroids but shunning...Medico-Legal
Novartis and Roche have been fined a collective $528m by France’s anti-trust regulator for allegedly conspiring to promote the expensive macular degeneration treatment...Weekly Roundup
The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) has granted the PAMAfrica research consortium €21.9m over a five-year period to develop...Weekly Roundup
A new gene therapy has been used to treat patients with a rare inherited eye disorder which causes blindness, reports BBC News. It's hoped the National Health Service...International
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has announced that together with the Health Department it has developed and distributed clinical guidelines and...Breaking News
The number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus has overtaken the 2003 SARS outbreak inside of mainland China with more than 6,000 confirmed cases of...International
A twice-a-year injection that reduces bad cholesterol to protect the heart is to be pioneered by the National Health Service (NHS) in England, reports BBC News....Weekly Roundup
US retailer CVS has become the latest to suspend the sale of a heartburn drug being investigated for links to cancer. BBC News reports that it follows concern in...Weekly Roundup
Additional shortages of blood pressure drugs in the US are possible following recent recalls related to traces of a probable carcinogen found in some versions a...
December 5th, 2018
The Sunday Times reports on one SA family's journey with their daughter, who has spinal muscular atrophy, trying to access hugely expensive new breakthrough drugs...
