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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Coverage of Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the Nexus archive.
- STAT+: 931 days. The drug approval scandal hiding in plain sight
Northwest Biotherapeutics submitted a marketing application for its brain cancer treatment DCVax to U.K. regulators in late December 2023 under an expedited pathway expecting a 150-day review. Over 931 days later, the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has not approved the drug and refuses to comment, deferring updates to the company.
- Huge haul of weight-loss drugs seized on Northampton country estate
A country estate near Northampton became the site of the UK's largest ever seizure of unlicensed weight-loss medicines, with 12,000 doses recovered during a raid. Two men aged 29 were arrested by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the operation.