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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Union's drugs regulator said on Wednesday it will investigate any risks to the availability of medicines processed at Catalent sites that will be sold to Novo Nordisk, part of its mandate to prevent drug shortages. The European Medicines Agency told Reuters in a statement that its Medicine Shortages Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Working Party will liaise with member states to gather data on the products manufactured at the sites. Novo Nordisk on Monday moved to boost output of its popular obesity drug Wegovy as its parent holding struck a deal to buy C...

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) has launched a UK wide campaign to raise awareness of sexual misconduct in healthcare. It comes after research commissioned by the Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery found that a third of female surgeons reported having been sexually assaulted by a colleague, and two thirds have been the target of sexual harassment.1 RCSEd vice president Clare McNaught said that the culture that had allowed sexual misconduct to happen in surgery must be wiped out. “Our campaign says, ‘Let’s remove it’—we’re all in this together and can u...

North Korea has formed a committee led by a key aide of leader Kim Jong-un to oversee the construction of modernized factories in backward provinces to spur regional development, state media said Tuesday.

An unnecessary, imbalanced and dangerous proposal: is devaluing European patents in the best interest of the EU?

Consortium News this month is paying tribute to the life and work of John Pilger, an all-time great journalist who died on Dec. 30. Today we republish an essay he wrote in April 2019 just after the arrest of Julian Assange.    Real journalism is being criminalized by thugs in plain sight, says John