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AI tools that could detect diseases earlier selected for next phase of MHRA’s ‘AI Airlock’ programme
Press release
Seven emerging AI healthcare technologies have been selected for the second phase of the MHRA’s AI Airlock programme.

The new Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway welcomes first investigational products
Press release
Developers work with the NHS, the medicines regulator and the UK health technology assessment bodies from the early stages of clinical development, as part of the Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway.

The MHRA produces over 95 per cent of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) biological standards.

Dr Nicola Rose: A new antibiotic is positive news – but it will take more to stay ahead of superbugs
News story
The MHRA’s Interim Executive Director of Science and Research writes in The British Medical Journal on the approval of the UK’s first new UTI antibiotic in nearly 30 years, and the wider challenge of tackling antibiotic resistance.

Aligned pathway will streamline decisions on licensing and value for medicines, helping patients to benefit from them sooner.

Patients receive earlier access to life-saving treatments as UK trial approval times cut in half from 91 to just 41 days.

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