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Mozambique has reached a major milestone in strengthening the regulation of medicines and imported vaccines, with its national regulatory authority recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a stable, well-functioning and integrated regulatory system

Traditional medicine is already used by billions worldwide. Researchers, regulators and the World Health Organization (WHO) are now working to generate acceptable evidence, win regulatory acceptance, and integrate traditional medicines into modern clinical care

The way health institutions approach obesity management is rapidly changing. For decades, the medical management of obesity was considered invasive, comprising long waiting lists and a last resort with strict criteria for access. Now, around 1.5m people in the UK are using weight loss medicines – and the trajectory suggests this will increase. Whilst the…

Physician-scientist Basmah Safdar, MD, has long viewed—and practiced—women’s health as precision medicine. Every cell has a sex. Accordingly, a precision health perspective demonstrates that there are fundamental differences between men and women in almost every health and disease that dictate clinical care. Inadequate sex-specific data drives healthcare inefficiencies and higher costs due to missed or…

A new £20m research hub is being established in Cambridge to help develop new medicines using artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced laboratory models

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged people to use GLP-1 receptor agonists only under the supervision of qualified healthcare professionals. The advisory follows the rapid global rise in the use of these medicines, particularly for weight loss, and growing concerns over misuse and purchases from unregulated

July 28 — A total of 26 medicines for rare diseases had been registered in Malaysia as of April this year, from none before 2020, the Dewan Negara was told today

You lose weight quickly, often in a dramatic way. But that number on the scales doesn’t tell the whole story: from diet to mental health, from physical activity to inequalities in access to care, there is a whole world of factors that determine whether treatment with GLP-1-based medicines really works or risks neglecting important aspects…