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ABPI says UK clinical trials sector ‘improving’

There are glimmers of a recovery in the UK’s clinical research sector, with an uptick in the number of new studies being started, according to a new report.

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UK to make oral contraceptives available OTC next month

Starting next month, around half a million women will be able to get oral contraceptives from a pharmacy without seeing their doctor first, under changes introduced by NHS

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UK first to approve Vertex, CRISPR drug for blood disorders

The first-ever CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy has been approved for marketing in the UK for inherited blood disorders sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependen

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UK may add chickenpox to routine child vaccinations

Scientific advisors in the UK have recommended that all children should be given two doses of varicella (chickenpox) vaccine, saying fears that doing so could lead to more

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UK feels the chill of Pfizer’s cost-cutting wind

Pfizer has fleshed out some more of the details of its wide-ranging cost-cutting drive announced last month, revealing that around 500 jobs will go in the UK, including at

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Victoria Atkins replaces Barclay as UK Health Secretary

Victoria Atkins is replacing Steve Barclay as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in a reshuffle that claimed the job of home secretary Suella Braverman and saw

ABPI says UK clinical trials sector ‘improving’

UK to make oral contraceptives available OTC next month

UK first to approve Vertex, CRISPR drug for blood disorders

UK may add chickenpox to routine child vaccinations

UK feels the chill of Pfizer’s cost-cutting wind

Victoria Atkins replaces Barclay as UK Health Secretary

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