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Relief for Amylyx as FDA clears controversial ALS drug Relyvrio

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Faced with the backlash, the FDA took the highly unusual step of convening another advisory committee meeting earlier this month and, amid emotional pleas from patients and doctors, this time the vote went the other way by a seven-to-two margin. — The ALS Association (@alsassociation) September 29, 2022. The organisation contributed $2.2

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

FAKE MEDICINES are not a new problem, and pose a tremendous threat to patient safety and public health in society regardless of a country’s economic status. Fake drugs kill more than 250,000 children a year, doctors warn. The prevalence of fake drugs is a continually growing problem worldwide. 2019; Available from: [link].

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NICE says statins should be used more widely in NHS

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The new draft guidance introduces some flexibility into the assessments that doctors currently use to decide whether a statin should be prescribed, based on new data reinforcing the safety of the widely-used drug class, which are known to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease when used for primary prevention.

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The benefits of mass spectrometry for expediting biologics to patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

The growing presence of these unintended amino acid sequences in recombinant proteins is a top concern for regulators and drug manufacturers due to the ability of these mutations to cause higher order structural problems, potentially affecting efficacy and safety. While SVs are typically present at less than 0.1

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Medical Sales In Sterile Processing And Infection Prevention With Mark Copeland

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I find reps, doctors, and directors. The way these doctors make decisions and the way these things occur, for whatever reason, it fascinated me. Now I’m calling on sykes, neuro, and sleep doctors, and did that for five years. I left them in 2014 to start our own thing. Patient safety is to do no harm.

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Private Patient Advocacy: Educating Patients To Be Their Own Advocates With Antra Boyd And Karen DiMarco

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I was done clinical nursing in 2014. In our country, we have been so conditioned to believe that the doctor knows best. How are they ever going to get the education when doctors don’t have the time and when they don’t understand or are up in their heads about something scary that’s happening to their bodies.

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Liron Fendell

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Until back in 2014, I met the team at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel. They were just at the phase when they were looking for someone to come up with a more business perspective to join the doctors and really start to commercialize the supplements that were just developed at Schneider's at the time.

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