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  • Top Spanish drugmaker fears disruption if EMA moves from Britain

    By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) – The likely relocation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London threatens to disrupt the approval of new drugs and is a medium and long-term worry for top Spanish drugmaker Almirall, its chief executive said on Monday. The EMA, Europe's equivalent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, approves medicines…

  • Top Spanish drugmaker fears disruption if EMA moves from Britain

    By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) – The likely relocation of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from London threatens to disrupt the approval of new drugs and is a medium and long-term worry for top Spanish drugmaker Almirall, its chief executive said on Monday. The EMA, Europe's equivalent the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, approves medicines…

  • Spain, the eldorado of fertility treatment

    Madrid (AFP) – “Making parents out of our patients,” reads an ad in Madrid's metro for one of Spain's many fertility clinics that have opened their doors to husbands and wives, same-sex couples and single women thanks to lenient laws. Sitting in his office behind the reception, where black-and white photos of babies' hands hang…

  • El Salvador confirms first Zika-linked birth defect

    El Salvador confirmed its first case of microcephaly in a baby that was linked to a Zika infection in the mother. Microcephaly is a birth defect that causes an abnormally small head and deformed brain. Zika, a virus typically carried by mosquitos, was first detected in the Central American country in November and 10,476 cases…