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Welsh row over soaring prescription numbers
20/08/2008
Each person in Wales now receives 19.1 prescription items per year, the highest number in the UK, and the number of items dispensed in Wales rose 5% to 62 million in 2007-8 from 59.1 million in 2006-7, according to the latest National Statistics on GP prescribing.
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AS404 may go into Phase III soon for prostate cancer
21/08/2008
Antisoma has unveiled impressive survival data from a Phase II study of its potential blockbuster ASA404, this time in hormone-refractory prostate cancer
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More Scots see pharmacies as first stop for health advice
21/08/2008
81% of people in Scotland now say they would seek health advice from their pharmacist for a range of health problems, compared to 72% who said they would do so back in 2002, according to a new survey carried out by YouGov.
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Multiple cancellations of NHS operations hit 7,000 patients in 2007
21/08/2008
The Conservative Party today releases figures showing that in 2007, over 7,000 NHS patients in England have had a planned operation cancelled on more than one occasion.
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NHS Scotland misses cancer wait time target
21/08/2008
National Health Service waiting times for cancer patients in Scotland are continuing to come down, although the 95% target set by the government for January-March 2008 has not been achieved, according to the latest figures from Scotland’s Chief Statistician.
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Drug Performance Units are an evolutionary step, says GSK
20/08/2008
GlaxoSmithKline’s creation of new, smaller Drug Performance Units within its existing Centres of Excellence for Drug Discovery is an “evolution”, not an admission that the CEDD structure has failed to deliver, the company says.
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AstraZeneca can claim compensation over copycat Prilosec
21/08/2008
A US appeals court has upheld a ruling against generic firms Apotex and Impax in a case brought by AstraZeneca to defend its patents for the antiulcerant Prilosec
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