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From bush to bedside: cool things in nature that become medicines to treat disease
Brendan Shaw "When it comes to discovering medicinal products found in nature, we’ve barely scratched the surface." - Piper, R. et al,...
Brendan Shaw
Oct 6, 20226 min read
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This could get messy: Trump’s New ‘Most Favoured Nation’ Executive Order on Medicine Pricing
Brendan Shaw Article published 24 September 2020 in PharmaBoardroom on US President Donald Trump's new Executive Order on Most Favoured...
Brendan Shaw
Sep 23, 20201 min read
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Creeping Through the Backdoor: Disruption in Medicine and Health
Brendan Shaw and Orin Chisholm Article published in the journal Frontiers in Pharmacology on 10 June 2020 on whether health systems can...
Brendan Shaw
Jun 11, 20201 min read
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Space X and NASA: lessons on public-private R&D for the health debate
Brendan Shaw On 30 May, the Space X Dragon rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and delivered two NASA astronauts...
Brendan Shaw
May 31, 20203 min read
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Biopharmaceutical industry comes through in dealing with Ebola
Recent news that two new drugs to treat the Ebola virus developed by the biopharmaceutical industry have achieved a 90% cure rate is...
Brendan Shaw
Sep 1, 20194 min read
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History Repeats with the Release of the 2019 WHO Essential Medicines List
Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 2 August 2019. The article can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/history-repeat...
Brendan Shaw
Aug 3, 20191 min read
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Australia's National Medicines Policy is outdated and in need of review
Article published with Associate Professor Orin Chisholm from the University of New South Wales on 22 July 2019 in the Medical Journal of...
Brendan Shaw and Orin Chisholm
Jul 23, 20191 min read
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