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FDA tackles opioid crisis with OTC Narcan approval

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On March 29, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for the first nonprescription, “over-the-counter” (OTC) naloxone nasal spray, Narcan. Between 1999 and 2021, overdose deaths from synthetic opioids excluding methadone increased 97-fold, and prescription opioid overdose deaths increased 4.9-fold,

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Senju Pharmaceutical and Novaliq close agreement for dry eye disease therapy

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NOV03 is the first and only water-free and preservative-free prescription treatment for dry eye disease, and targets the evaporation of tears by forming a monolayer at the tear film’s air-liquid interface. Novaliq has also received US Food and Drug Administration approval for VEVYE (cyclosporine ophthalmic solution) 0.1%

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Thursday pharma headlines

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Merck’s old drugs are under more scrutiny, and anti-vaxxers are causing problems by cherry-picking unreliable information. million, his first big raise since 2015, thanks to incentive pay that jumped by about $1.2 prescriptions of finasteride, as the drug is known, for hair loss increased to over 2.4 ” Ouch.

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Pharma panics over patent wavers

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Some say pharma should be allowed to make as much as they want because we live in a capitalist society but JAMA recently found out that price increases in branded drugs means that people will often go without their medications. But what about the costs to develop new drugs and the failure rates?

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