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UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) released a report today recommending that the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme be reformed to deliver better value from National Health Service (NHS) drug spending and to focus funding on drugs that have the greatest benefits for patients.
New Zealand's Pharmaceutical Management Agency (PHARMAC) has announced its financial support for an international trial that will examine whether nine weeks or 12 months is the better treatment duration for Herceptin, a breast cancer drug marketed by Roche.
Merck announced it has begun to file registrations for Atripla, a once-daily, single-tablet regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults, with health authorities in many developing countries, including 45 countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Americans who attempted to purchase certain drugs over the internet instead received products containing haloperidol, a strong anti-psychotic drug, the FDA said.
The U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) held a meeting late last week at its headquarters in Geneva to discuss progress in pandemic influenza vaccine development.
Australia-based Eastland Medical Systems announced it will manufacture and distribute a new malaria treatment in India and the Asia-Pacific region following the signing of an agreement with Proto-Pharma.
Advocacy group Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) has sent a petition to the U.S. FTC requesting an investigation of what it calls anticompetitive aspects of voluntary licenses issued by drugmaker Gilead.
Countries should stockpile a combination of antiviral drugs for use in an influenza pandemic, researchers say in a recent issue of the
British Medical Journal (BMJ).