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UK biotech gets grant for further trial of osteoarthritis dr...

UK biotech AKL Research and Development (AKLRD) has received a grant from a UK government-backed innovation body to develop its potentially “game changing” osteoarthritis drug.

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Mixed results for non-opioid pain drug from Pfizer/Lilly

Pfizer and Eli Lilly have produced more phase 3 data that appear to back their non-opioid painkiller tanezumab.

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FDA under fire from own adviser over opioid policy

An adviser to the FDA has said that the organisation is at war with itself over its policy towards opioid drugs, accusing the organisation of failing to learn lessons from the addiction cri

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UK researchers investigate alternatives to long-term opioid ...

A UK university has been awarded £2.4 million to research overprescribing of opioids, and how to improve treatment of patients with persistent pain without long-term use of these morphine-l

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Beckley Canopy Therapeutics raises £7.4m for cannabis R&D

Oxford-based biopharma Beckley Canopy Therapeutics has raised £7.4 million to develop a range of cannabis-based products for the treatment of pain and to help tackle

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