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NICE tackles overuse of antibiotics

18 August 2015 | By Victoria White

NICE, the UK health watchdog, has published guidance to help doctors, nurses and pharmacists promote and monitor the sensible use of antibiotics...

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Medimmune and Inovio Pharmaceuticals agree to DNA-based immunotherapy collaboration

11 August 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, European Pharmaceutical Review

AstraZeneca today announced that MedImmune, its global biologics research and development arm, has entered into a license agreement and collaboration with Inovio Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company developing DNA-based immunotherapies for cancer and infectious diseases.

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Polyelectrolyte complexes as nanoparticulate drug delivery systems

3 July 2015 | By Anita Umerska, University of Anger and Lidia Tajber, Trinity College Dublin

Polyelectrolyte complexes at the nanoscale (polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles; PECNs) can be harnessed as drug delivery systems for a range of low molecular weight drugs as well as peptides and proteins. The mild method of manufacture of PECNs results in the protection of the loaded bioactive and the choice of polyions…