This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50465563 By Adrian Goldberg “You know when your washing machine first starts spinning and then it goes really fast to get hot – I feel like I’m on a superfast spin.” Michele Reynolds Cole, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, is telling me what it’s like to live without Gabitril, the…
This article was taken from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47719269 By James GallagherHealth and science correspondent, BBC News Part of the drugs industry should be taken over to make new antibiotics, an influential economist has argued. Lord Jim O’Neill, who advised the government on antibiotic resistance, said he was shocked by pharmaceutical companies failing to tackle drug-resistant infections. He said…
This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/trachoma-drugs-pledged-fight-disease-thorns/ By Anne Gulland, global health security correspondent Drug company Pfizer has announced it will extend its donations of antibiotics to treat the debilitating eye disease trachoma for five years. Pfizer initially said its donation of the drug Zithromax would end in 2020, the target for the worldwide elimination of the disease. Now…
This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/09/alzheimers-gene-neutralised-human-brain-cells-first-time/ By Henry Bodkin Scientists have claimed an important breakthrough in the battle against Alzheimer’s after neutralising the most significant gene responsible for the disease for the first time. A team in California successfully identified the protein associated with the high-risk apoE4 gene and then manage to prevent it damaging human neuron cells. The…
This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/26/patients-not-told-doctors-big-pharma-conflicts-interest-new/ By Henry Bodkin Hospitals are failing to inform patients when doctors responsible for choosing their drugs have received thousands of pounds from pharmaceutical companies, a new study reveals. A survey in the British Medical Journal shows just six per cent of NHS trusts publish their register of gifts and hospitality online and…