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EU disease prevention agency sees risk of Covid deaths rising as Omicron subvariants spread
Two new subvariants of Omicron -- BA.4 and BA.5 -- are spreading much faster than other corovanirus variants in Europe, which could lead to...
GSK closer to cracking elusive vaccine for common respiratory virus
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline aims to get its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine to regulators for review later this year, after interim data showed the...
‘Age to buy cigarettes should rise annually’
The age at which people can buy tobacco in England should rise by one each year until it becomes a "smoke-free" society, a government-commissioned...
NPA ‘broadly supports’ dispensing model in which medicines are supplied by spoke pharmacies
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) says its accepts the hub and spoke model in which medicines are supplied by a spoke pharmacy as opposed...
Monkeypox designated a notifiable disease
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said that monkeypox is to be listed as a notifiable disease in law from Wednesday (June 8).
The new...
Novartis drug combo shows promise in childhood brain cancer
An oral drug combination by Novartis showed promise in treating a subgroup of patients suffering from a common childhood brain cancer in a trial.
In...