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FDA expands blood
May . 04 . 2019

FDA expands blood pressure drug recall for fifth time this year

Not all versions of the widely used medications are contaminated, but ongoing recalls may cause shortages, an FDA spokesperson said. The Food and Drug Administration…

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May . 03 . 2019

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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Recalls of medical devices
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May . 03 . 2019

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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April . 30 . 2019

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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Hackathons
Precision medicine’s
April . 30 . 2019

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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April . 29 . 2019

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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German pharma Merck
Torrent Pharma recalls
April . 29 . 2019

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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April . 27 . 2019

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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Antimicrobial resistance
Big pharma
April . 27 . 2019

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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April . 26 . 2019

Pharma drug delivery market worth $1,694.7 billion by 2023

The pharmaceutical drug delivery market could reach $1,694.7 billion by 2023, increasing at a CAGR of 6.4 percent during the period… A market report has…

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Pharma drug delivery