Astrazeneca boosts cardiovascular pipeline with licensing deal pharma Astrazeneca has struck a licensing agreement worth up to $2bn (£1.5bn) with China’s CPSC Pharmaceutical Group to develop a new cardiovascular drug, the company announced on Monday. The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant will pay $100m (£76.5) upfront, with additional milestone payments of up to $1.9bn (£1.4bn), to licence a preclinical small molecule aimed at treating dyslipidemia. [...]
Replace the NHS with Social Health Insurance says think tank Politics The IEA has called for a radical transformation of the NHS, proposing it be replaced with a Social Health Insurance system to improve healthcare outcomes in the UK