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The imperative of fridge-free vaccines

European Pharmaceutical Review

Many of today’s vaccines are produced in ready-to-inject liquid formulations that must be kept cold to maintain stability. However, this greatly complicates both the worldwide distribution and stockpiling of vaccines and other drugs. A requisite cold chain has been designed and implemented to be uninterrupted from factory to patient.

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4mn dose shortage of GSK’s childhood rotavirus vaccine expected

European Pharmaceutical Review

According to Reuters , Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon have either run out of or are close to running out of vaccines to protect children against the deadly rotavirus infection following undisclosed “manufacturing challenges” at GSK. We are witnessing the largest sustained drop in childhood immunisation in a generation.

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Virtual GP clinics – are they accessible as they need to be?

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At the same time, trust in doctors and other providers to keep data secure dropped from 89% in 2019 to 83% last year, suggesting there is a wider, contextual shift occurring. To encourage, and reassure, patients who are reluctant to attend virtual clinics, more should be done on communicating about the service. Be transparent.

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Disrupted medical conferences: Lessons learnt

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The COVID-19 pandemic has radically disrupted traditional medical society conferences in a way that could scarcely have been imagined in 2019. The majority of societies reported significant increases in attendee numbers compared with those from their equivalent 2019 physical conferences. yes, if vaccines are available; 15.8%

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UK scientists say they have found cancer driver in junk DNA

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They showed how repetitive patterns of DNA are copied during replication, and found evidence they can stall the process entirely, increasing the risk of errors that can be an early driver of cancer, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. The company signed a collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim worth up to $1.07

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MHRA Chief Executive to step down

European Pharmaceutical Review

Previous roles The MHRA highlighted Dame June Raine has been Chief Executive Officer of the MHRA since August 2019. MHRA also noted that Dame June’s key interests are in monitoring the outcomes of regulatory action, risk communication and patient involvement in the regulatory process.

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Innovation across the healthcare system is needed to realise the value of medicines

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Medicines and vaccines are among the most powerful interventions that can help improve quality of life for people across the world. Data will always be central to everything we do, as it has the power to communicate the potential of a new treatment to change a person’s life.