Green light for 77 new medicines in the EU in 2023
A total of seventy-seven new medicinal products were approved in Europe last year, seven of which were given the green light in December. At European level, the EMA’s […]
A total of seventy-seven new medicinal products were approved in Europe last year, seven of which were given the green light in December. At European level, the EMA’s […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended seven medicines for approval at its October 2023 meeting. The brings the total number of newly approved medicines this year to […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is warning patients and healthcare professionals to beware of pre-filled pens falsely labelled as Ozempic, a diabetes medicine linked to weight loss. National […]
The spread of false information and conspiracy theories accelerated during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inadvertently inaccurate, and some deliberately misleading, ideas were widely shared on social […]
EU medicines regulators have approved a vaccine to protect against disease caused by the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Abrysvo is the first RSV vaccine indicated for passive immunisation […]
The EU medicines watchdog, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has approved 14 new products at its summer meeting in Amsterdam. This brings to 46 the total number of […]
New research from the University of Gothenburg has found that preterm babies given a supplement with a combination of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids have better visual function […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved two new medicines at its May meeting. This brings to 30, the number of products given the green light by the […]
Vaccines against COVID-19, administered in the EU in the autumn of 2023, will be updated to target XBB forms of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These strains are a subgroup […]
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved a total of 89 new medicines in 2022. Of these, 41 had a new active substance which had never been authorised in […]
Taking vitamin D supplements may help ward off dementia, according to a new, large-scale study by scientists in the UK and Canada, using data from US patients. Based […]
European countries experienced significant shortages of medicines as seasonal illnesses spread across the continent. Now authorities at EU level are working to avoid a repeat of the problem, […]