BTG Pharma Quiz April 2016

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BTG Pharma Quiz - April 2016

Test your knowledge on the pharmaceutical industry with our engaging quiz focusing on significant events and companies from April 2016. Each question covers important developments, notable figures, and key products that have shaped the healthcare landscape.

8 challenging multiple-choice questions
Learn interesting facts about leading pharmaceutical companies
Explore pivotal public health debates

8 Questions2 MinutesCreated by DivingDoctor45

In April 2016, Sanofi was all over pharma news due to its bid to acquire Medivation - a San-Franciso based biotech company.

Sanofi’s biggest product is Lantus - the world’s best selling drug for diabetes

Sanofi is the largest pharmaceutical company of which country?

Denmark

France

Switzerland

Germany

In April 2016, X, the manufacturer of Neurofen (ibuprofen lysine), was fined £890,000 in Australia for misleading customers.

The Australian Federal Court ruled in Dec 2015 that the products marketed as targeting specific pains, such as migraine pain, period pain, tension headache and back pain, were all actually the same product - they were all identical.

The court also pointed out that X sold these target specific medication for double the price of the regular product despite all of them being identical.

X is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough.

X is

Unilever

Proctor & Gamble (P&G)

Reckitt Benckiser

Johnson & Johnson (J&J)

Rising drug prices have been a hot topic for several years. But the recent media storm and backlash started in earnest only about a year ago when Gilead priced its blockbuster drug, Sovaldi, at $84,000 for a 12-week course.

Sovaldi is used to treat which disease?

Hepatits-C

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Chronic Lymphaitc Lueukemia (CLL)

Pancreatic Cancer

Is there a link between Autism and the MMR Vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella)?

This question was first asked by British medical researcher Andrew Wakefield in 1998. The study was eventually found to be fraudulent and Wakefield was barred from practising medicine in the UK.

However, the question came up again in 2016, when the film “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe” was scheduled to be premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.

The movie was directed by Andrew Wakefield and portrayed the alleged cover up of a purported link between the MMR vaccine and autism. The film sparked a tremendous backlash for its anti-vaccine position and was therefore pulled from the film festival.

X got involved in this commotion since he is the co-founder of the Tribeca film festival, and has an autistic son. But he made headlines since he also supported Wakefield’s views and believed that certain children are at risk of being harmed by vaccines.

Who is X?

Robert De Niro

Sean Connery

Michael Caine

Samuel L Jackson

A substance is defined by the USFDA as a medical device when all of the following 3 conditions are satisfied.

1 ) recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them

2) intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals

3) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and ------------------------------------------

Fill in the blank.

Does not achieve its primary purpose through oral administration

Achieves its primary purpose from outside of the body.

Does not achieve its primary purpose through chemical or metabolic action.

Is not a tablet, capsule, syrup, ointment or cream.

In the UK, manufacturing licenses and marketing authorisations for pharmaceuticals and medical devices are granted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Before these licenses and authorisations are granted, the manufacturing site would be inspected/audited by the MHRA for GMP compliance.

For pharmaceutical products, the MHRA conducts these inspections themselves. But for medical devices, the inspections are outsourced to a "Notifed Body". The Notified body in BTG's case is X.

So it is X who conducts the inspection on behalf of the MHRA. The MHRA, however, is the body which issues the authorisation and license ultimately.

X is

FDA

BSI

ISO

Eudralex

Decades ago, scientists discovered that certain species of fungi create molecules called secondary metabolites in stressful conditions to help combat the stressful situations. By harvesting these molecules, researchers have been able to make new and important drugs that have changed the trajectory of medicine.

On 8th April 2016, 4 strands of fungi was placed in a unique and stressful environment to understand the metabolites it forms in those conditions. It was the first time that fungi was placed in the environment for the purpose of potentially developing new medicines.

The special environment was

International Space Station

Marianas Trench - Deep sea

Antarctica

NMR Spectrometer - Very strong magnetic field

Therasphere is one of the products in BTG's interventional oncology product portfolio.

TheraSphere consists of millions of small glass microspheres containing a radioactive material based on element X.

The product is injected by physicians into the artery of the patient’s liver through a catheter, which allows the treatment to be delivered directly to the tumor. This approach provides a high concentration of radiation treatment directly at the tumor, and limits both damage to surrounding healthy tissue and side effects.

What is X?

Radium

Uranium

Yttrium

Iodine

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