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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (9 May 2024) launched AI Airlock, its new regulatory sandbox for AI as a Medical Device (AIaMD).
An MHRA and NICE partnership, funded by Wellcome, is addressing key challenges for regulating and evaluating digital mental health technologies (DMHTs) with input from patients, the public and mental health professionals.
The MHRA has authorised cabotegravir as 30 mg tablets and as a 600 mg long-acting injection administered every two months
The MHRA has today set out its strategic approach to artificial intelligence (AI)
Further measures to be introduced to ensure patients who are prescribed montelukast for the treatment of asthma are informed of the risk of neuropsychiatric reactions
The MHRA will introduce a patient alert card to increase awareness among men taking finasteride about potential psychiatric and sexual side effects
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (9 April 2024) approved the medicine fosdenopterin (Nulibry) to treat the genetic disease Molybdenum Cofactor Deficiency (MoCD) Type A
Batches of some products made by Legency Remedies Pvt Ltd have been found to contain a bacteria called Ralstonia pickettii (R. pickettii). All potentially affected batches are being recalled following an MHRA investigation.
The MHRA has approved the combined antibiotic cefepime/enmetazobactam (Exblifep 2 g/0.5 g powder for concentrate for solution for infusion)
Following MHRA approval of a clinical trial, early breast cancer patients on endocrine-based therapy can benefit from a study with camizestrant.
Thousands of counterfeit or unbranded copies of LifeVac anti-choking devices are being sold across the UK. The public is reminded to check their product carefully against the images in MHRA guidance to identify whether it is…
Draws attention to 2 statutory instruments which amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and associated regulations to control and schedule 20 new drugs.
Scott Mitchell appointed People’s Champion of the national mission to beat dementia, founded in his wife Dame Barbara Windsor’s memory.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
A company director and his pharmaceutical manufacturing company were sentenced in court today after pleading guilty to two charges of falsifying data that supported the shelf life of a medicine, adversely affecting its quali…
The UK suspension of the MAGEC system (modified MAGEC X system only) has been lifted as of 23 February 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (11 March 2024) approved the medicine quizartinib (Vanflyta) to be used alongside chemotherapy as first line treatment for adults who have acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (11 March 2024) approved the medicine etrasimod (Velsipity) to treat people with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.
Government outlines action to make UK a world leader in tackling ethnic and other biases in medical devices.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (7 March 2024) approved the medicine ganaxolone (Ztalmy) as the first anti-seizure medication in the UK to treat cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) deficiency disorder (CDD).…
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (7 March 2024) approved the medicine rozanolixizumab (Rystiggo) to treat adults with generalised myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness, which can affect multiple muscle groups throughout…
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