Posted by Roger Bate A Star Newspaper investigation of drug quality in Canada (see here) demonstrates the risks patients in rich nations like Canada run from receiving poor quality medicines, especially imported from India. What is most worrying is the lack of transparency at some western health agencies. What the investigation shows is that Health Canada has hidden information about problems with medications. While it is true that educated people occasionally make bad medicine choices (think [...]

Posted by Roger BateThe World Health Organization just posted its new report on inferior medicines (http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA68/A68_33-en.pdf). It is called the member state mechanism (MSM) report on Substandard/spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit medical products - SSFFC for short. This report is the culmination of multiple meetings of health bureaucrats to finalize how to combat inferior medicines. Or rather that is what one hoped for when the SSFFC process began [...]

Supplies of certain drugs used when intubating patients with COVID-19 will run out “over the coming days”, the government has warned.

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All the most important developments in the COVID-19 pandemic for pharmacists and their teams, as they happen.

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Pfizer and partner BioNTech are right in the middle of one of the most important vaccine trials in the world right now, but that doesn’t mean the Big Pharma is taking its eyes off the inoculation ball elsewhere.

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Moderna is finalizing the protocol for a phase 3 trial of its COVID-19 vaccine with a view to starting the study early in the summer. The establishment of the timeline, which follows FDA clearance to run a phase 2 trial, puts Moderna on track to win approval for its mRNA vaccine mRNA-1273 next year.

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With a generous support from the Guangzhou City Government and the Guangdong Provincial Government, Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health-Guangdong Laboratory (GRMH-GDL) was launched in 2017. GRMH-GDL aims to bring together multiple leading scientific research units from Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and well-known international research institutes to achieve the vital goal of "Healthy China" and to cooperatively tackle the scientific and technical problems and challenges. GRMH-GDL is focused…

On February 20, the World Bank and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which funds development of epidemic vaccines, cohosted a global consultation on funding the development and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines. We wrote a working paper to guide the consultation, which we coauthored with World Bank and CEPI colleagues. The consultation led to…

On February 20, the World Bank and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which funds development of epidemic vaccines, cohosted a global consultation on funding the development and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines. We wrote a working paper to guide the consultation, which we coauthored with World Bank and CEPI colleagues. The consultation led to…

For decades westerners have lectured central and eastern European policymakers on how to regulate and supervise, balance their budgets and stem credit expansion. Now they must deal with the consequences of a global crisis triggered because the west broke all the rules it preached. Worse, it is a crisis they cannot do much to resolve.…

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This revamp of an 1830s apartment mixes modern materials to create a modern space.

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You are going to hear a lot about this. It makes everybody's problems go poof. Just don't mention the CO2.

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Self-driving cars will likely be big autonomous mobile home theaters.

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Break out the gold lamé, Grandma, and trip the light fantastic!

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.

Trust the rock stars, or your doctor.

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This is probably the most interesting 3D printed house concept we have seen yet.

Got some clean electricity? Then you can cremate your crap.

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"We're here ... doing everything we can to make sure that a vaccine and treatments are available as soon as possible," CEO Robert Kramer said.