GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) made the following comment regarding the UK Government?s announcement that it intends to re-negotiate the Pharmaceutical Pricing and Regulation Scheme (PPRS) agreement, which was concluded in 2005.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a national program to bring about the adoption of more uniform, equivalent, and high quality regulatory programs by state agencies responsible for regulating facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food under FDA?s jurisdiction.
The FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee voted to keep the Glaxo’s diabetes medicine Avandia available to patients in the US. The FDA will review the panel’s recommendation before making a decision.
At a time when national rates of cesarean delivery have climbed above 30%, a four-year study of patients receiving an alternative method of obstetric care experienced a significantly lower rate of cesarean births, according to a study published in the current issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
GlaxoSmithKline [NYSE: GSK] welcomed the nearly unanimous recommendation of an U.S. Food and Drug Administration?s (FDA) advisory committee to support Avandia?s (rosiglitazone maleate) continued availability to patients in the US.
The use of steroid medication to treat bronchiolitis ? a common viral lower respiratory infection in infants ? does not prevent hospitalization or improve their respiratory symptoms, according to a study published in the July 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
The University of Sydney today announced the formation of a new high level research centre which will tackle the obesity epidemic with an unprecedented expert collaborative group based in Sydney.
The World Bank today announced it will work with Jamaican authorities to prepare a Second HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Project based on the current program?s successful performance and ratings.
Nearly three million seniors would lose their Medicare Advantage coverage under legislation proposed in the House of Representatives, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
A major breakthrough in HIV research by Murdoch?s Professor Simon Mallal has opened up a new era in personalised medicine. Professor Mallal spoke at the International AIDS Society bi-annual conference on 25 July.