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Call goes out for simpler clinical trial regulation in UK

Clinical trials are strictly regulated to ensure patient safety, but the current framework in the UK is stifling early-phase clinical research, making it harder to advance novel therapies t

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Roche will relaunch AMD implant Susvimo after update

Roche’s Genentech unit has said will reintroduce its Susvimo implant for eyesight-robbing disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which was withdrawn from sale in 2022 due to manufa

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As IARC uprates talc cancer risk, will J&J be affected?

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a new assessment of talc’s potential to cause cancer, concluding that is it ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans.

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Study links Ozempic/Wegovy to sight-threatening disorder

Shares in Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly have been under pressure after a study emerged suggesting that people taking a GLP-1 agonist had an elevated risk of a rare but serious eye condition.

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NWEH says module cuts side effect reporting burden in trials

Monitoring patient safety is of the utmost importance when running a clinical trial, but recording and reporting side effects can be labour-intensive and costly.

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Study finds low secondary cancer risk with CAR-Ts

There’s no doubt that CAR-T therapies have transformed the treatment of many blood cancers, but a risk of secondary malignancies has cast a pall over the class.