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UK’s first ‘asthma bus’ set to provide vital resource to pressured NHS respiratory services as asthma sufferers admit to putting off care during pandemicMore than 1 in 20 (6.7%) asthma sufferers delayed emergency care during the pandemic and over a quarter (27.5%) have avoided receiving treatment f...
COVID vaccine makers AstraZeneca have had another important drug approved that will help cancer patients in Scotland.The pharmaceutical giants, whose
AZ' Tagrisso first to win MHRA approval under Project Orbis 7th May 2021 AstraZeneca's Tagrisso (osimertinib), a post-surgery treatment for lung cancer, is the first drug to receive approval from the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) under Project Orbis. Project Orbis is a programme coordinated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore, Brazil and the UK as other participants, which offers a framework for concurrent submissions and collaboration reviews for promising cancer treatments. Tagrisso is licensed treatme...
UK medicines regulator issues its first authorisation under Project Orbis UK medicines regulator issues its first authorisation under Project Orbis for Osimertinib (Tagrisso), a post-surgery treatment for lung cancer. From: 7 May 2021 A post-surgery treatment for lung cancer will be the first to receive an authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) under Project Orbis - only four months after the agency joined the scheme in January 2021. Osimertinib (Tagrisso), a medicine made by AstraZeneca, is a licensed treatment for patients with mid and later ...
Empty streets in Lowestoft during the Coronavirus lockdown. - Credit: DENISE BRADLEY Business leaders from some of the UK’s biggest firm are calling for the government to back their “national prosperity” plan to boost growth and living standards as Britain recovers from the pandemic. Ten top business figures from the likes of Tesco, AstraZeneca, Vodafone and Royal Dutch Shell have set out a 10-year blueprint for action to help UK industry prosper, address social and economic inequalities and deliver on the government’s net zero commitments. In a report by the Covid Recovery Commission...