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UK agency pilots biobank to study links between genetics and drug side effects

Pharmaceutical Technology

The biobank will work in parallel with the MHRA’s Yellow Card website, which is used for reporting adverse events and side effects caused by medicines and medical devices, per the 25 May announcement. Side effects due to drugs are responsible for one in every 16 hospital admissions in the UK, based on the announcement.

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Constipation Patients Are Suffering in Silence—Here’s How to Help Them

PM360

1 Yet, most patients haven’t tried prescription therapies, a discovery Phreesia Life Sciences made after surveying 6,780 adults age 18 and older who previously had been diagnosed with or treated for constipation as they checked in for their doctors’ appointments. Why the disconnect? Give Patients the Resources They Want.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

One aspect that is extremely promising about radiopharmaceutical therapeutics is that they do not give a patient the side effects that are commonly experienced with chemotherapy. He has over 20 years of research and business development experience in Nuclear Medicine. Barrett at the Center for Gamma Ray Imaging.