As the COVID-19 crisis continues around the world, public health and infectious disease experts at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are pushing for global vaccine equity to end the pandemic.
Feb 2, 2022
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GP's could save billions of pounds for the NHS by switching patients' prescriptions from patented medicine to alternative drugs whose patent has expired, a new study shows. Researchers found that whilst some practitioners ...
Nov 19, 2021
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A new paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholar who studies the legal and ethical implications of advanced biotechnologies outlines an unexplored tool to regulate the medically and ethically dubious ...
Aug 31, 2021
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To beat the coronavirus pandemic, countries need to collaborate. We need the best possible science to develop vaccines and drugs, and to test, track and contain the virus. If we've learned anything from the rapid global spread ...
Jul 3, 2020
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As the pandemic swept across the nation in March, so did urgent questions about the virus' potential strain on the healthcare system.
Apr 22, 2020
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It's hard to make sense of cannabis regulation.
Jul 5, 2017
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With the expiration in January of the patent on Gleevec, the drug that 15 years ago changed chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) from a death sentence to a treatable illness, insurance companies and patients have the opportunity ...
Mar 15, 2016
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The World Trade Organisation has agreed to extend a waiver that allows poor countries to copy patented medicines. The waiver, which was due to expire in January 2016, has now been extended to 2033.
Nov 25, 2015
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A new diagnostic technology may significantly improve early detection and treatment of cancer and other diseases. Via a simple blood test the method can potentially diagnose diseases such as cancer at an early stage, enable ...
Jan 5, 2015
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French drugmaker Sanofi is buying the rights to seek approval for a version of the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis that customers would be able to buy without a doctor's prescription.
May 28, 2014
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