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Recalls of medical devices
03 May

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Recalls of medical devices and drugs are up – can anyone predict when it will happen next? No Comments

Recalls of medical devices and drugs are up – can anyone predict when it will happen next?

From the valsartan blood pressure drug contamination that exposed thousands of patients to cancer-causing impurities, to a massive pacemaker recall undertaken to fix a hazardous software bug in half-a-million…

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pills gettyimages
03 May

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Yet another lot of blood pressure medication recalled — this time for a possible carcinogen No Comments

Yet another lot of blood pressure medication recalled — this time for a possible carcinogen

Legacy Pharmaceutical Packaging will recall one more lot of the heart and blood pressure drug losartan sent to Kroger Co. pharmacies because the drug contained a possible…

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Domestic pharma firms
30 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: Technoloy

Recalls of medical devices and drugs are up – can anyone predict when it will happen next? No Comments

Recalls of medical devices and drugs are up – can anyone predict when it will happen next?

From the valsartan blood pressure drug contamination that exposed thousands of patients to cancer-causing impurities, to a massive pacemaker recall undertaken to fix a hazardous software bug in half-a-million…

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judge gavel and a blood pressure gauge on a PUJL
30 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: Technoloy

FDA expands blood pressure drug recall for fifth time this year No Comments

FDA expands blood pressure drug recall for fifth time this year

The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will expand its recall of blood pressure medicines to include four lots of losartan after they…

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Hackathons
30 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care No Comments

Democratizing artificial intelligence in health care

Hackathons promote doctor-data scientist collaboration and expanded access to electronic medical-records to improve patient care. An artificial intelligence program that’s better than human doctors at…

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Precision medicine’s
30 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Precision medicine’s rosy predictions haven’t come true. We need fewer promises and more debate No Comments

Precision medicine’s rosy predictions haven’t come true. We need fewer promises and more debate

Twenty years ago, Dr. Francis Collins, who was then director of the National Center for Human Genome Research, made rosy predictions in his Shattuck Lecture…

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German pharma Merck
29 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: News

German pharma Merck makes bid for US group Versum No Comments

German pharma Merck makes bid for US group Versum

Merck KgaA’s takeover of Versum Materials would be the company’s biggest since its 2015 purchase of US materials supplier Sigma-Aldrich German pharmaceutical group Merck KgaA…

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Torrent Pharma recalls
29 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Torrent Pharma recalls around 2.30 lakh bottles of high BP treatment tablets from US No Comments

Torrent Pharma recalls around 2.30 lakh bottles of high BP treatment tablets from US

Torrent Pharmaceuticals NSE 1.47 % is recalling 2,29,896 bottles of tablets used for treatment of high blood pressure from the US and Puerto Rico, on…

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Antimicrobial resistance
27 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Combining therapies and combining research No Comments

Combining therapies and combining research

The World Health Organization recognises antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of the most pressing global threats to medicine. Without effective antibiotics, much of the success of…

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Big pharma
27 Apr

By pharmatrax

Category: News

Big pharma is embracing open-access publishing like never before No Comments

Big pharma is embracing open-access publishing like never before

Proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016. Scientists who work in the pharmaceutical industry have begun to…

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