WHO 對 Coartem Baby 的 prequalification 意味著新生兒可以獲得安全治療,而無需使用針對大齡兒童的藥物。首款嬰兒 malaria 治療藥物已獲得 World Health Organization 批准,為全球廣泛應用開啟了門戶。在 Africa 的部分地區,多達 18% 的六個月以下兒童會感染 malaria,但歷史上針對這群年齡最小的幼兒一直缺乏安全的治療方案。2024 年共有 610,000 人死於 malaria,其中約四分之三是 Africa 的五歲以下兒童。繼續閱讀...
• 一項 POLITICO 的調查顯示,一間人脈廣泛的製藥公司與保守派評論員 Laura Loomer 試圖打壓 Vinay Prasad 博士(參議員 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 的盟友),原因是他批評了某些藥物定價和監管做法。
• 該報告指稱,相關方發起了協調一致的社群媒體活動和幕後遊說工作,旨在詆毀 Prasad 的研究和公共衛生評論。
• 製藥產業團體和一些患者倡導者對此反駁,稱 Big Pharma 自然會試圖捍衛其商業模式,但批評者警告,由企業資助並試圖讓持不同意見的醫學界聲音噤聲的行為正日益增加。
Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico was not aware of US participation until four officials were killed in car crashClaudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said on Monday that her government told the United States, in a diplomatic note, that the unauthorized presence of US officials at an anti-narcotics operation in the northern state of Chihuahua should not be repeated.The incident came to light after two US officials, along with two Mexican officials, were killed in a car crash on 19 April after the operation. Sheinbaum has said the federal government was not aware of the participation of the US officials, who were widely reported to be CIA officers. Continue reading...
Health secretary’s ‘power grab’ to override Nice comes amid growing concern move may be illegal and benefit big pharmaDozens of MPs are opposing Wes Streeting’s decision to award himself power to dictate what the NHS pays for drugs amid growing concern the move may be illegal.Thirty-one MPs have signed a House of Commons motion voicing their disapproval of the health secretary being handed the power to override the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (Nice) judgment on how much the NHS should spend on individual medicines. Continue reading...
Small boat destroyed in video posted on social media as US campaign has killed at least 178 people since SeptemberThe US military announced on Friday that it killed two people in an attack on a boat in the eastern Pacific, part of a series of deadly strikes on vessels in recent months which it claims are targeting “narco-trafficking” operations.The US Southern Command declared in a social media post on X that Gen Francis L Donovan directed Joint Task Force Southern Spear, the counter-narcotics unit that operates in the region, to carry out a lethal strike. The US military posted a video, which it labeled unclassified, showing a small boat being destroyed in an explosion. Continue reading...