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Risperidone injections shown to cut hospital admissions
28 Feb 12 | 11.30 | EU
Use of long-acting injectable risperidone is associated with lower rates of hospital admission than non-use, according to a recent...
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How fake medicines can be kept out of the supply chain
28 Feb 12 | 10.54 | England EU
Legislation from the European Commission, once implemented, will mean that pharmacists must check the authenticity of a drug at the time that it is dispensed. How will such a system work?
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Niacin of no benefit to patients with coronary artery disease and low HDL-cholesterol
24 Feb 12 | 12.10 | EU
POEM (Patient Oriented Evidence that Matters): Does niacin provide any additional benefit to persons with coronary artery disease and low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol who are taking maximal statin therapy?
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Late stage AMD set to rise by one-third in next decade
16 Feb 12 | 15.31 | EU
Cases of late stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are set to increase by a third in the next decade, according to new estimates...
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Guide for assessing effect of genetic variability during medicines development published by EMA
14 Feb 12 | 9.42 | EU
Guidelines on how pharmaceutical companies should integrate studying the role of genetic variability during medicines development...
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Fingolimod safety review launched
3 Feb 12 | 10.03 | EU
The unexplained death of a patient shortly after starting treatment with fingolimod has led the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use to launch a safety review
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MHRA rebuts Lancet accusations of failure to ensure medical device safety
30 Jan 12 | 16.19 | EU
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has hit out against Lancet editor Richard Horton...
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Give colecalciferol products UK licence, urges Soni
27 Jan 12 | 11.17 | England EU Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Two colecalciferol products that are imported from Germany in substantial quantities for the treatment of vitamin D...
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Anaphylaxis after vaccination of children very rare
24 Jan 12 | 17.12 | England EU Northern Ireland Scotland Wales
Anaphylaxis remains an adverse event that occurs very rarely in children after immunisation, according to prospective surveillance...
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Dementia falls risk linked with SSRI dose
24 Jan 12 | 16.48 | EU
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are associated with a dose-dependent increase in falls risk among elderly people with dementia...
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