England’s health service is stepping up recruitment of doctors from overseas in order to fill a huge shortage in primary care – with European Union countries being the main target.
GlaxoSmithKline is to sell off its famous bedtime malted milk drink Horlicks in the UK, and will also consider exiting a pharma business, its cephalosporins antibiotics franchise.<
Simon Stevens hails success in negotiating with pharma companies on price and data, and has defended NHS England’s record in promoting innovative medicines.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNA, a class of RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regula