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Tributes as former NICE, MHRA chair Sir Mike Rawlins dies

pharmaphorum

A pharmacologist by training, Rawlins was the founding chairman of health technology assessment (HTA) agency NICE , leading the organisation from its inception in 1999 until 2013, and hired Sir Andrew Dillon to become the organisation’s founding chief executive.

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Ethnopharmacology: traditional medicine and modern drug discovery

Pharmaceutical Technology

While 80% of the world’s population practices some form of traditional medicine, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the practice is regularly discredited due to a lack of scientific support and regulation as well as evidence of negative side effects with certain medicines.

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Understanding the evidence used in drug product withdrawals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Between 1999 and 2001, it supported 17 percent of withdrawals, between 2002 and 2011, it supported 26 percent of withdrawals and by 2012 to 2016, 80 percent of withdrawals were supported by observational studies (cohort, case-control, or other epidemiologic design). Meta-analyses contributed least frequently (31.4 Lane S, Lynn E, Shakir S.

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Quality of life in patients with chronic health conditions

World of DTC Marketing

These and other chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in America, and they are also a top driver of health care costs. But what we most often overlook is the effect of chronic health conditions on the quality of life leading to depression and suicide. According to the CDC, in 2012, 25.5%

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Nanotechnology: A Massive Impact at the Molecular Level

Celeritas

They only partially impact the target areas and have damaging side effects in adjacent regions. Gold nanowires further positively impact key organ transplant functions – synapse formation and stem cell differentiation – all without using growth factors, which cause negative side effects. 2012 May 1;93:226-34. [15]

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Ep. 001 – John Mack Podcast Transcript

Pharma Marketing Network

John Mack (PG): I think 2006 to 2012. But you’d have to have one click to the side effects. John Mack (PG): But the industry evolved from there and they have the side effects on the same page. RJ Lewis (EHS): You’re early in that space too, podcasting too, weren’t you? John Mack (PG): Sure.

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