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NHS faces legal action over fertility treatment for gender t...

England's NHS must offer transgender patients awaiting transitioning treatment access to fertility services, or face legal action according to the country's equality watchdog.

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NHS saved £324 million by switching to biosimilars and gener...

The UK’s national healthcare provider saved £324 million by switching its patients to “better value” biosimilar and generic drugs, which are considered to be “equally effective alternatives

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The first lipodystrophy treatment for European patients

Novelion Therapeutics’ Myalepta (metreleptin) developed for the ultra-rare condition lipodystrophy has been approved by the European Commission, giving patients the first treatment to impro

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HPV vaccination extended to thousands of boys in England

The UK government announced the extension of HPV vaccine programme to boys in a bid protect against several different kinds of cancer.

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Chinese pharma contaminated with scandals

Another batch of vaccines have been found “substandard”, just days after the second-largest pharmaceutical company in China admitted to falsifying test results and producing hundreds of tho

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Pfizer backed off, but the price hike game continues

Donald Trump may have convinced the US pharma giant Pfizer to defer a price increase for dozens of drugs, but there are others that have escaped such intense scrutiny according to a report.

NHS faces legal action over fertility treatment for gender t...

NHS saved £324 million by switching to biosimilars and gener...

The first lipodystrophy treatment for European patients

HPV vaccination extended to thousands of boys in England

Chinese pharma contaminated with scandals

Pfizer backed off, but the price hike game continues

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