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Take your medicine: how research into supply chains will help you take care of yourself

14 Jun 2017

Researchers are working with pharmaceutical companies to make improvements across the whole supply chain, from how a pill is made to the moment it is...

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Future therapeutics: the hundred-year horizon scan

13 Jun 2017

How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies ‘beyond the pill’...

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Financial cycles of acquisitions and ‘buybacks’ threaten public access to breakthrough drugs

28 Jul 2016

An analysis of a new drug’s journey to market, published today in the BMJ, shines a light on financial practices that see some major pharmaceutical...

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Carrots and sticks fail to change behaviour in cocaine addiction

16 Jun 2016

People who are addicted to cocaine are particularly prone to developing habits that render their behaviour resistant to change, regardless of the...

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Diabetes

Genetic approach could help identify side-effects at early stages of drug development

01 Jun 2016

An approach that could reduce the chances of drugs failing during the later stages of clinical trials has been demonstrated by a collaboration...

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Pills

Opinion: More accountability needed in how drugs are priced and reimbursed

23 May 2016

Lawrence King (Department of Sociology) and Piotr Ozieranski (University of Bath) discuss how EU member states use complex policy instruments to...

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New imaging method could improve the treatment of the 5 million asthma sufferers in the UK

13 Nov 2014

A new method of observing exactly what happens to drug particles as they travel from an asthma inhaler to the lungs could lead to the development of...

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Mini-livers show promise to reduce animal use in science

26 Feb 2014

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for...

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Drug developed in Cambridge approved for treatment of multiple sclerosis

17 Sep 2013

Approval concludes nearly 40-year epic journey from fundamental research to discovery of an effective treatment for active relapsing multiple...

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The skinny on cocaine

09 Aug 2013

New research suggests chronic cocaine use causes profound metabolic changes, reducing the body’s ability to store fat.

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Towards the ‘holy grail’ of anticoagulant drugs

17 Jun 2013

New Cambridge spin-out raises $11 million in funding to develop revolutionary new drug for thrombosis, which causes heart attacks and strokes.

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