11.09.2018
- British Health Minister Matt Hancock, in an interview with the London-based Times newspaper, has slammed the international pharmaceutical industry for trying to "rip off” UK...
11.05.2017
- UK specialty pharmaceutical company EUSA Pharma has won European approval for its monoclonal antibody dinutuximab beta to treat children over the age of 12 months with...
09.05.2017
- For as much as five months, US drugmaker Pfizer will provide its breast cancer drug palbociclib for free to the England arm of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The decision...
06.03.2017
- Britain's health agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which has responsibility for assessing the cost-effectiveness of medical treatments, has decided...
10.09.2015
- UK drug cost-effectiveness agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, has approved the use of US drugmaker Merck’s Keytruda for treatment of certain cases of...
01.11.2012
- Medical journal The Lancet warned that Sanofi's experimental multiple sclerosis drug Lemtrada may be too costly for patients and health insurers once it gets approved by regulators...
22.06.2010
- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) may in future decide not only if new drugs should be licensed for use but also whether one medicine is better than another. The idea of giving...
