Every year on February 4th, the world unites under the banner of World Cancer Day. This global initiative, led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), aims to raise awareness, improve education, and catalyze personal, collective, and government action to reimagine a world where millions of preventable cancer deaths are avoided and...
The State of Kuwait has established a robust and structured pharmacovigilance (PV) system, detailed comprehensively in the Kuwait Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (KuGVP) guidelines. This framework aligns Kuwait with international standards while addressing local regulatory needs, positioning the country as a committed guardian of patient safety.
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) remain a stark marker of global health inequity, affecting over 1.5 billion of the world's poorest and most marginalized people. The Global Report on Neglected Tropical Diseases 2025 by the World Health Organization (WHO) charts two decades of concerted action, revealing significant victories alongside persistent and emerging challenges.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report 2025, providing the most comprehensive analysis to date of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) worldwide. Based on data from the WHO Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System (GLASS), the report covers over 23 million bacteriologically confirmed infections reported by 104 countries between 2016 and 2023.
Recognizing AI's profound potential to accelerate development, enhance safety monitoring, and bring effective treatments to patients faster, the two agencies have proactively outlined a principles-based framework designed to foster innovation while upholding the non-negotiable pillars of patient safety, product efficacy, and regulatory integrity.
Following a public consultation period (until October 15, 2025), the Algerian Ministry of Health, Ministry of Pharmaceutical Industry, the National Pharmacovigilance and Materiovigilance Centre (CNPM), and the National Agency for Pharmaceutical Products (ANPP) have jointly issued the final Algerian Guide to Good Pharmacovigilance Practices (BPPV) – Version 2.0, December 2025.
On January 5, 2026, the landscape of weight management in America shifted with the broad availability of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy® (semaglutide) pill. As the first and only FDA-approved oral GLP-1 receptor agonist for chronic weight management, it represents a monumental shift from injectable therapy, promising to expand access and transform patient experience. However, with...
Advancing Medication Safety Through Knowledge and Vigilance
