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Big Pharma overcharged NHS millions for anti-epilepsy drug

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US pharma giant Pfizer and Hertfordshire-based drug company Flynn Pharma abused their market dominance by charging “excessive and unfair prices” for an anti-epilepsy drug, Britain’s competition watchdog has said. Following a comprehensive investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a scathing statement on Thursday suggesting the two pharma firms may have breached UK and... 

Tumors use protein recycling to grow

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New study shows that tumor cells use protein recycling to fuel their growth. A new research carried out on a variety of human tissues, suggests that recycling of protein in the body could be an important part of tumor formation. According to the report published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers found that protein recycling was accelerated in more than 30 types of cancerous cell. Scientists... 
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