The British government has extended the expiry date on epinephrine pens to combat shortage in the UK. The Danish pharmaceutical company ALK announced that it was working with MHRA as the agency decides which specific batches of the Jext EpiPen’s will receive an extension on their expiry. ALK estimates that approximately 100,000 Jext pens in
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has cleared the adjuvanted trivalent influenza vaccine Fluad for use in people aged 65 years or older. Fluad, which is manufactured by CSL company Seqirus, has been available in Europe since 1997 but has only just been launched in the UK. According to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and
Roche’s Tecentriq has scored another positive opinion. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recently accepted the immunotherapy drug into the Early Access to Medicines Scheme (EAMS) for the treatment advanced bladder cancer. The decision means that patients suffering from bladder cancer could have access to the drug while it awaits decision from
