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    OPIANT’S MID-STAGE TREATMENT FOR A SEVERE EATING DISORDER FAILS TO REACH ENDPOINTS

    Feb 22, 2019

    Shares of Opiant Pharmaceuticals fell in trading Thursday and continue to slide in premarket trading this morning after the company announced its Phase II trial evaluating a naloxone nasal spray for the treatment of bulimia nervosa failed to meet primary endpoints and will discontinue the program. S...


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    BAYER PAIRS ITS PRODUCTS IN FIRST-EVER TV AD FOR HORMONE-RELEASING IUDS

    Feb 22, 2019

    Bayer is taking on myths about intrauterine devices (IUDs) in a new two-product ad campaign. The first-ever campaign featuring both the Mirena and Kyleena branded IUDs recently began as Bayer looks to not only explain what the levonorgestrel-releasing IUDs do but also impart basic knowledge about IU...


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    HEALTH POLICY ANALYSTS CALL FOR MORE STRINGENT RULES FOR AI MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

    Feb 22, 2019

    A trio of health policy analysts from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California has published a Policy Forum piece in the journal Science calling for more stringent rules for the introduction of AI medical applications. In their paper, Ravi Parikh, Ziad Obermeyer and Amol Navat...


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    ABBVIE’S CANCER DRUG VENCLEXTA BLOCKS DIABETES IN MICE BY TARGETING BETA CELL ‘SENESCENCE’

    Feb 22, 2019

    Diabetes researchers have long believed that the disease starts when the immune system attacks insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. But that theory never made much sense to Anil Bhushan, Ph.D., a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, Diabetes Center. So he and a team of ...


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    PORTABLE, BATTERY POWERED VIRAL DETECTOR TAKES ONLY A DROP OF BLOOD

    Feb 22, 2019

    Performing a lab-quality test for many infectious diseases, particularly viral ones, is difficult in remote regions. Much lab equipment requires some kind of infrastructure, including clean rooms, trained staff, and money. Researchers at Purdue University have developed a device that can perform RNA...


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    MENDELIAN GETS £500,000 FOR RARE DISEASE SCREENING TECH

    Feb 22, 2019

    UK health technology startup Mendelian has received a £500,000 grant from a government agency to build products that will help GPs identify patients with rare or hard to diagnose conditions and diseases. Mendelian will use the grant from Innovate UK to get a specialized screening system for ra...


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    MARKET ACCESS ROUNDUP: UK HTA SHAKEUPS AS BREXIT FEARS DEEPEN

    Feb 22, 2019

    With a Brexit deal still out of sight, there have been intensified warnings in the UK about potential disruptions to medical supplies that could follow a no-deal scenario. One government minister has said that a no-deal Brexit could disrupt medicines supplies to the UK for at least six months becaus...


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    FDA ADVANCES NEW PROPOSED REGULATION TO MAKE SURE THAT SUNSCREENS ARE SAFE AND EFFECTIVE

    Feb 21, 2019

    This significant action is aimed at bringing nonprescription, over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreens that are marketed without FDA-approved applications up to date with the latest science to better ensure consumers have access to safe and effective preventative sun care options. Among its provisions, the...


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    PATIENTS SWITCH TO LOWER DOSE OF PFIZER’S RA PILL AFTER SAFETY SIGNAL

    Feb 21, 2019

    Pfizer is moving rheumatoid arthritis patients to a lower dose of its blockbuster inflammatory diseases pill Xeljanz in a clinical study after a safety signal emerged in the trial of patients at high risk of cardiovascular events. A Janus kinase inhibitor class drug, Pfizer has produced Xeljanz as a...


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    CONGRESSMAN AIMS TO BREAK PHARMA’S INSULIN ‘PRICING MONOPOLY’ BY LEGALIZING CANADIAN IMPORTS

    Feb 21, 2019

    U.S. legislators have been introducing bills left and right proposing a variety of methods for bringing down drug prices. Now, Vermont's congressman is zeroing in on a specific class of diabetes medicines that he says have become far too expensive: insulin. Rep. Peter Welch introduced a bill on ...


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    NEXUS PHARMACEUTICALS RECEIVES FDA APPROVAL FOR PROCHLORPERAZINE EDISYLATE INJECTION, USP

    Feb 21, 2019

    Nexus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Prochlorperazine Edisylate Injection, USP in 10mg/2mL vial. “The launch further expands our generic injectable portfolio but more importantly, it shows our commitment to meeting the...


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    VICAL SLASHES STAFF AFTER CULLING PHASE II ANTIFUNGAL

    Feb 21, 2019

    US biotech Vical is planning another round of job cuts after deciding to abandon its antifungal drug VL-2397, its last remaining clinical-stage asset. The San Diego company only started the phase II trial of VL-2397 last year but says a slow uptake of patients into the trial, coupled with a need to ...


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    MERCK’S KEYTRUDA FAILS IN LATE-STAGE HCC TRIAL

    Feb 20, 2019

    Merck’s vaunted PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda took a stumble in a late-stage trial as a treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who were previously treated with systemic therapy. In the pivotal Phase, III KEYNOTE-240 trial, Keytruda plus best supportive care failed to hit ...


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    RESEARCH SHOWS MANY PATIENTS WERE IMPROPERLY PRESCRIBED FENTANYL

    Feb 20, 2019

    Fentanyl is a powerful form of opioid given to patients who are suffering from severe pain. The medication is about 100 times more powerful than morphine. A new study shows that a large number of patients who should not have received something so powerful were still prescribed the drug. Researchers ...


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    ABBVIE’S JAK INHIBITOR UPADACITINIB GETS PRIORITY REVIEW

    Feb 20, 2019

    AbbVie’s attempts to diversify beyond Humira have been boosted as its investigational drug upadacitinib has been granted Priority Review by the FDA for moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Trial data has suggested that upadacitinib, a JAK1-selective inhibitor, is more effective at tre...


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    FDA CRACKS DOWN ON UNAUTHORIZED USE OF PLASMA TREATMENTS FOR AGING, OTHER ILLNESSES

    Feb 20, 2019

    In the seventeenth century, Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory bathed in the blood of young women she murdered in order to sustain her beauty. Blood, albeit more freely given, continues to be an attractive tool for some who want to stave off the effects of age. Individuals have been using plasma i...


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    KEYTRUDA GETS OKAY FROM FDA FOR ADJUVANT MELANOMA

    Feb 20, 2019

    The US FDA has approved Merck & Co’s Keytruda as an adjuvant treatment for patients with melanoma who have had surgery but still show some evidence of cancer in their lymph nodes. It’s the first time that PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) has been approved in the US for adjuvan...


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    INTERCEPT PHARMA IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO FILING FOR APPROVAL OF FIRST NASH TREATMENT

    Feb 19, 2019

    Shares of Intercept Pharmaceuticals have exploded this morning after the company announced positive news from its Phase III nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) trial. The stock has shot up more than 20 percent in premarket trading to $133 per share as investors see the potential for the first approv...


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    CIPLA TAPS WELLTHY FOR DIGITAL THERAPEUTICS EXPERTISE

    Feb 19, 2019

    Indian pharma company Cipla has made another play in the digital medicine category by taking a near-12% stake in start-up Wellthy Therapeutics. Under the terms of their agreement Wellthy and Cipla – which is India’s third-biggest pharma company – will work together on combined drug...


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    TAPEWORM DRUG COULD BE AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN CANCERS

    Feb 19, 2019

    Could a drug used to treat tapeworms be effective at treating a type of cancer? Researchers in Singapore think they are on the right track in demonstrating just that. Scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) recently discovered that the use of niclosamide, which ...


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    INVENTIVA DISCONTINUES SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS DRUG AFTER MID-STAGE FLOP

    Feb 19, 2019

    Shares of France-based Inventiva have plunged more than 45 percent after the company reported that its experimental treatment for a rare autoimmune disease failed to hit primary and secondary endpoints in a mid-stage trial. Inventiva said its FASST (For A Systemic Sclerosis Treatment) clinical trial...


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    KEYTRUDA COMBO SET TO BECOME “STANDARD OF CARE” IN KIDNEY CANCER

    Feb 18, 2019

    Analysts are predicting that a combination of Merck’s Keytruda and Pfizer’s Inlyta will become the standard of care in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) thanks to impressive trial results and a price advantage over BMS’ rival drug. The combination of anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda with tyrosi...


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    CHOLESTEROL CAN BE A PROBLEM FOR SOME CANCER CELLS, RESEARCHERS REVEAL

    Feb 18, 2019

    For millions of people across the globe, cholesterol has become a significant health issue. It also turns out that cholesterol can be a problem for some cancer cells. New research coming from Rockefeller University reveals that a rare tumor type is unable to synthesize cholesterol, which is somethin...


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    TRIAL COULD UNLOCK NEW PROSTATE CANCER SALES FOR PFIZER/ASTELLAS’ XTANDI

    Feb 18, 2019

    Pfizer and Astellas’ Xtandi has shown it is effective in men with prostate cancer that has spread but has not yet become hormone resistant, stepping up pressure on rival therapy Zytiga from Johnson & Johnson. The results of the ARCHES trial show that giving androgen receptor antagonist Xta...


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    MAPPING BRAIN CIRCUITS IN NEWBORNS MAY AID EARLY DETECTION OF AUTISM

    Feb 18, 2019

    A new map of newborn babies' brains offers details of structure that will provide a new reference for researchers studying both typical brain development and neurological disorders. Using noninvasive, 20-minute magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, researchers have revealed some of the complex...


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    LUNDBECK AND OTSUKA'S ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUG REXULTI FAILS TWO BIPOLAR PHASE III TRIALS

    Feb 15, 2019

    Denmark’s H. Lundbeck A/S and Japan’s Otsuka Pharmaceutical announced that their brexpiprazole failed to meet its primary endpoint in two Phase III clinical trials to treat manic episodes in patients with bipolar I disorder. The drug was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...


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    PRICE CUT UNLOCKS NICE NOD FOR PERJETA IN POST-SURGERY BREAST CANCER

    Feb 15, 2019

    Roche has finally won NICE backing for the use of Perjeta (pertuzumab) to prevent early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer from recurring after surgery, at the third attempt. The new draft guidance means that the HER2 inhibitor can be given as an adjuvant therapy to people with early-stage HER2-posit...


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    WHO PLANS TO DEVELOP OVERSIGHT STANDARDS FOR GENE EDITING FOLLOWING CHINESE RESEARCHER’S EXPERIMENT

    Feb 15, 2019

    Following international concern and outrage over a gene-editing treatment of human embryos in China, the World Health Organization (WHO) is taking action. On Thursday, WHO announced it was assembling a panel of experts to form an advisory committee to develop global standards for the governance and ...


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    STATINS COULD PROTECT AGAINST MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE, SCIENTISTS SUGGEST

    Feb 15, 2019

    High cholesterol could be a risk factor in the development of motor neuron disease, according to a study of genetic data by UK scientists. A team led by the Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health in the US, said that cholesterol-lowering drugs such a...


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    BIOGEN FACES MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR TECFIDERA LOSS IF MYLAN WINS LATEST PATENT THREAT

    Feb 07, 2019

    Cash cow Tecfidera has been pumping out blockbuster sales as Biogen plows ahead with pricey Alzheimer's trials and scouts for new pipeline assets. But what if those sales took a big hit early next year, instead of eight years later? That's the threat from a Mylan challenge at the U.S. Patent...


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    HIBERCELL LAUNCHES WITH $60.75 MILLION SERIES A TO TARGET DORMANT METASTATIC CANCER CELLS

    Feb 07, 2019

    HiberCell, based in New York City, launched with a $60.75 million Series A funding. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners. Additional investors included Hillhouse Capital, 6 Dimensions Capital, Celgene Corporation, the NYC Life Sciences Fund, and other undisclosed investors. HiberCell focuses...


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    AN ORAL INSULIN DELIVERY SYSTEM INSPIRED BY TORTOISES

    Feb 07, 2019

    Despite nearly a century of research, researchers have so far failed to develop an oral form of insulin that would allow patients with diabetes to avoid multiple daily injections. Now researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Novo Nordisk say...


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    FDA PUBLISHES PREMARKET GUIDANCE ON COMBINATION PRODUCTS

    Feb 07, 2019

    The FDA has published new premarket guidance on efficient development and review of combination products, which often combine drugs or biologic medicines with a device. In a statement, the FDA referred to the technologies such as digital pills from Proteus Digital Health, which track when patients t...


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    GSK CUTS SIX RESPIRATORY ASSETS AS IT CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON ONCOLOGY TREATMENTS

    Feb 06, 2019

    GlaxoSmithKline has been in the midst of a significant reshaping to focus on pharmaceuticals, particularly a renewed interest in oncology treatments. As a result, the company has made some cuts to its pipeline, including six quietly announced this morning in the company’s year-end report.

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    CALL FOR BETTER REGULATION OF AI-BASED MEDICAL PRODUCTS

    Feb 06, 2019

    Products based on artificial intelligence should be regulated like drugs, and those that are deemed unsafe should be removed from the market, according to a new report. The report commissioned by NHS Digital noted that AI-based products are likely to fall under the remit of the UK’s regulator,...


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    AMPROLOGIX SECURES FUNDING TO DEVELOP NEW ANTIBIOTIC WITH INGENZA

    Feb 06, 2019

    Ingenza is pleased to announce that University of Plymouth spin-out Amprologix, in which it has a stake, has been awarded a £1.2 million contract from the UK Department of Health and Social Care to accelerate the development and scale up its lead antibiotic candidate, Epidermicin NI01. The fun...


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    TAKEDA ORDERED TO PAY BAYER $155M FOR HEMOPHILIA PATENT INFRINGEMENT

    Feb 06, 2019

    It may not be what Takeda bargained for with its massive Shire buyout, but early into its ownership of the rare disease specialist, a jury ordered the Japanese drugmaker to pay hemophilia rival Bayer $155 million for patent infringement. The case dates back to a December 2016 lawsuit Bayer filed aga...


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    ROCHE SEEKS KADCYLA BOOST TO FEND OFF HERCEPTIN BIOSIMILARS

    Feb 05, 2019

    As biosimilar competition to Herceptin ramps up, Roche is looking to bolster its position in HER2-positive breast cancer with a new indication for Kadcyla. The Swiss pharma firm has announced that it has submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application to the US FDA that could broaden the drug...


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    ALLERGAN TRIES TO BLUNT IMPACT OF BOTOX COMPETITOR WITH COMPLAINT OF PILFERED MANUFACTURING SECRETS

    Feb 05, 2019

    It may not be a trend as yet, but for the second time recently, drugmakers have tried to put the kibosh on a competitor’s launch by alleging their product was made using stolen manufacturing secrets. The most recent is a complaint filed Jan. 30 by Allergan and its Botox partner Medytox against...


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    IN-HOUSE DEVELOPED MULTIPLE MYELOMA DRUG LEADS THE WAY FOR SANOFI

    Feb 05, 2019

    Paris-based Sanofi announced positive results from its pivotal Phase III trial of isatuximab in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma. The drug, in combination with Celgene’s Pomalyst/Imnovid (pomalidomide) and low-dose dexamethasone, met the primary endpoint of prolonging progres...


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    LESS ANESTHESIA DURING SURGERY DOESN'T PREVENT POST-OP DELIRIUM

    Feb 05, 2019

    Many older adults who have major surgery experience postoperative delirium in the days after their operations. Previous research has suggested that closely monitoring the brain during surgery and making adjustments to protect the brain from too much anesthesia could reduce the risk of postoperative ...


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    DRUG TARGET IDENTIFIED FOR CHEMOTHERAPY-RESISTANT OVARIAN, BREAST CANCER

    Feb 04, 2019

    People who inherit a faulty copy of the so-called "breast cancer genes" BRCA1 and BRCA2 are at high risk of cancer. About 10 percent of breast cancer cases and 15 percent of ovarian cancers can be traced back to a flaw in one of these genes. A class of drugs known as PARP inhibitors was de...


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    TEVA’S MIGRAINE DRUG AJOVY LOOKS SET FOR EU APPROVAL

    Feb 04, 2019

    Teva’s migraine drug Ajovy (fremanezumab) has moved closer to the EU market after the influential CHMP regulatory committee gave it the green light. The decision paves the way for European approval, which usually follows a positive opinion from the CHMP within a few months. Ajovy is one of a g...


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    INSIGHT INTO PROTEIN FORMATION COULD AID UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASES

    Feb 04, 2019

    Scientists have shed light on a biological process that helps the production of healthy cells, which may aid the understanding of neurological diseases and other conditions. Researchers examined a housekeeping mechanism which removes faulty proteins as they form. This process, which is common to man...


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    FUNCTIONAL INSULIN-PRODUCING CELLS GROWN IN LAB

    Feb 04, 2019

    UC San Francisco researchers have for the first time transformed human stem cells into mature insulin-producing cells, a major breakthrough in the effort to develop a cure for type 1 (T1) diabetes. Replacing these cells, which are lost in patients with T1 diabetes, has long been a dream of regenerat...


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    NOVO ACCELERATES LAUNCH PLANS FOR ORAL SEMAGLUTIDE

    Feb 01, 2019

    Novo Nordisk has said it is accelerating launch preparations for its new diabetes pill semaglutide, after investing in a voucher that will allow a fast review of the drug in the US. The FDA grants priority reviews for drugs that it considers to be a significant improvement over available therapies f...


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    HHS SECRETARY AZAR FLOATS PLAN TO LOWER PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS

    Feb 01, 2019

    As lawmakers in Congress are exploring potential price-lowering options for prescription drugs, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is floating a proposed rule to lower the prices and out-of-pocket expenses by encouraging manufacturers to pass discounts to patients instead of...


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    A DEEPER LOOK AT DRUG SHORTAGES IN THE U.S.

    Feb 01, 2019

    Drug shortages can occur for a number of reasons. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) lists the most common as changes in clinical practices, inventory practices of wholesalers and pharmacies, raw material shortages, changes in hospital and pharmacy contractual relations...


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    BD UNVEILS NANO PEN NEEDLE FOR ACCURATE SUBCUTANEOUS INSULIN INJECTIONS

    Jan 31, 2019

    BD is releasing its new Nano pen needle designed for achieving consistent depth during subcutaneous injections, particularly for diabetic patients on insulin. Intramuscular injections can occur when a patient applies too much force too many of the existing injection devices. The new BD Nano compensa...


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    SYLENTIS' DRY EYE DRUG MISSES PRIMARY GOALS IN PHASE 3

    Jan 31, 2019

    A phase 3 trial of Sylentis’ dry eye disease candidate tivanisiran has missed (PDF) its primary endpoints. The PharmaMar subsidiary failed to link the siRNA eye drops to improved scores on scales of ocular pain and corneal staining compared to artificial tears. Sylentis advanced tivanisiran in...


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    ADURO CUTS 37% OF EMPLOYEES AS IT REFOCUSES ON CANCER PIPELINE

    Jan 31, 2019

    Aduro Biotech has hit the reset button, laying off about 37% of its workforce to throw all of its resources behind a handful of lead programs: assets that target the STING and APRIL pathways for the treatment of cancer. “Over the years, Aduro has demonstrated a proven track record in the disco...


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    ON HEELS OF DRUG PRICING HEARINGS, DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS KICK OFF INSULIN PROBE

    Jan 31, 2019

    Sanofi, Novo Nordisk, and Eli Lilly have faced years of scrutiny over insulin prices, but their responses haven't satisfied two Democratic lawmakers who this week kicked off a fresh investigation into pricing for the products. The probe comes as drug pricing creates daily headlines in Washington...


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    ALLERGAN ABANDONS WOMEN’S HEALTH SALE PLAN AS PROFIT SLUMPS

    Jan 30, 2019

    Shares in Allergan fell after the company said it had swung to a loss in the last quarter of 2018 and forecast 2019 revenues below analyst expectations. The Ireland-headquartered specialty drugmaker, best known for its Botox wrinkle treatment, reported a loss of $4.3 billion that reversed a profit o...


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    READY FOR BOTOX, MILLENNIALS? ALLERGAN HAS LAUNCHED ITS FIRST CAMPAIGN TARGETING YOU

    Jan 30, 2019

    Allergan’s latest target for Botox Cosmetic is millennials. If there's any doubt, just look at the crowd of 20-somethings in its newly launched TV ad: Young people exaggerate their facial expressions surprised, embarrassed or laughing with no noticeable frown lines or forehead wrinkles. Th...


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    SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE TAKE AIM AT DRUG PRICING

    Jan 30, 2019

    The U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the House Oversight Committee started hearings on Tuesday, January 29, focused on dealing with high drug prices. In the Finance Committee hearing, chair of the committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, (R-IA), began by saying tackling high prescription drug prices was a p...


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    IS BIOGEN’S ADUCANUMAB FOR ALZHEIMER’S THE HOLY GRAIL OR COLD FUSION?

    Jan 30, 2019

    Whenever a drug fails an Alzheimer’s clinical trial, analysts, investors, and industry watchers immediately turn to look at Biogen. Will the company’s aducanumab be the one? Will it be the drug that will actually break the string of more than 150 drug failures? Today, Roche announced tha...


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    GATES FOUNDATION, GILEAD AND OTHERS DROP $55 MILLION ON SERIES B FOR LYNDRA THERAPEUTICS

    Jan 29, 2019

    Lyndra Therapeutics, based in Watertown, Mass., announced the closing of a Series B financing round worth $55 million. All original investors from the $23 million Series A round led by Polaris Partners were involved. New investors include HOPU Investments, Gilead Sciences, Invus, the Bill & Meli...


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    CELGENE STRIKES DEAL WORTH NEARLY $1 BILLION FOR BLOOD CANCER TREATMENT

    Jan 29, 2019

    Celgene has struck another collaborative deal, even as the large pharmaceutical company is in the process of being folded into the operations of its new owner, Bristol-Myers Squibb. This morning, privately-owned drug developer Triphase Accelerator, along with its majority shareholder FACIT, announce...


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    TAKEDA'S PHASE III DENGUE VACCINE RESULTS BRING THEM "ONE STEP CLOSER" TO STOPPING TROPICAL DISEASE

    Jan 29, 2019

    Takeda Pharmaceutical announced that its vaccine for dengue fever hit its primary efficacy endpoint in its Phase III clinical trial. Dengue fever affects as many as 400 million people annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is caused by one of four relate...


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    ABBVIE AND J&J CLAIM NEW IMBRUVICA OKAY IN US

    Jan 29, 2019

    AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson’s Imbruvica has become the first chemo-free treatment for first-line chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) to be approved by the FDA, its tenth indication. The green light from the US regulator is for a regimen based on BTK inhibitor Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and Roch...


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    ABBVIE AND J&J CLAIM NEW IMBRUVICA OKAY IN US

    Jan 29, 2019

    AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson’s Imbruvica has become the first chemo-free treatment for first-line chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) to be approved by the FDA, its tenth indication. The green light from the US regulator is for a regimen based on BTK inhibitor Imbruvica (ibrutinib) and Roch...


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    FDA GIVES GREENLIGHT TO JANSSEN AND ABBVIE'S IMBRUVICA FOR THE 10TH TIME

    Jan 28, 2019

    Leukemia drug Imbruvica snagged another approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The regulatory agency gave the green light for Imbruvica combined with Gazyva for adult patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma. The approval of the c...


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    NO NEW PATIENTS SHOULD TAKE LILLY’S CANCER DRUG LARTRUVO, SAY REGULATORS

    Jan 28, 2019

    Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have ruled that no new patients should start treatment with Eli Lilly’s Lartruvo (olaratumab) for soft tissue sarcoma, after a study that was supposed to confirm its efficacy failed. Late last week the FDA joined the European Medicines Agency by ruling ...


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    ALEXION'S ULTRA-RARE KIDNEY DISEASE DRUG PASSES PHASE III WITH FLYING COLORS

    Jan 28, 2019

    Boston-based Alexion’s Ultomiris (ravulizumab-cwvz) hit its primary objective in its Phase III study of complement inhibitor-naïve patients with the atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). aHUS is a chronic, progressive and debilitating ultra-rare disease. It affects children and adult...


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    PFIZER’S CANCER PORTFOLIO EXPECTED TO RAKE IN $8.3 BILLION IN 2019

    Jan 28, 2019

    Pfizer is a big company with a diverse portfolio, but it hasn’t really been noted for its presence in the oncology market. The majority of its successful drugs are in primary care and heart medicine, like Lipitor (atorvastatin) for cholesterol, Lyrica (pregabalin) for neuropathic pain and fibr...


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    OPTIMAL-G PRO ROBOTIC GAIT REHAB SYSTEM UNVEILED

    Jan 24, 2019

    Motorika, a company out of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, is introducing its Optimal-G Pro robotic walking rehabilitation system at the  American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sessions Meeting this week in Washington DC. The device helps to train the walking gait of people who have s...


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    UEXPLORER WHOLE BODY PET-CT CLEARED BY FDA FOR CLINICAL AND RESEARCH USE

    Jan 24, 2019

    United Imaging Healthcare, a company out of Shanghai, China, won FDA clearance for its uEXPLORER combined Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. The device can perform whole-body scans using both imaging modalities at the same time. The system is expected to be used...


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    FDA APPROVES CONSUMER COLORECTAL CANCER TEST

    Jan 24, 2019

    The FDA will allow consumer DNA testing company 23andMe to give customers reports on their risk of hereditary colorectal cancer. The California-based company, which allows customers to test their own DNA via mail, will now be able to tell its users whether they have the two most common genetic varia...


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    NICE BACKS DIGITAL CBT FOR YOUNGSTERS WITH DEPRESSION

    Jan 23, 2019

    NICE has recommended digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) should be used as a first-line treatment for children and young people with mild depression. The draft guideline is an overarching document that paves the way for more use of this technology and is part of NICE’s drive to encoura...


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    FDA PUTS TRANSLATE BIO’S RARE DISEASE MRNA DRUG ON HOLD

    Jan 23, 2019

    The FDA has placed a clinical hold on the IND for Translate Bio’s mRNA treatment for ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency, a genetic disease that causes too much ammonia to build up in the blood. The hold comes just nine months after the agency lifted a clinical hold on a different prog...


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    NEW REPORT SHOWS PRICE OF INSULIN DOUBLED FROM 2012 TO 2016

    Jan 23, 2019

    In October, Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit against three of the biggest insulin manufacturers over price gouging claims. In the lawsuit, Swanson said Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk “deceptively raise the list price of insulin” and that the hikes have made the...


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    VERTEX’S CF DRUG GETS LABEL EXTENSION AS PRICING ROW CONTINUES

    Jan 23, 2019

    While UK cystic fibrosis patients continue their long wait for access to Vertex’s Orkambi, the drug has received a label extension from the European Commission allowing it to be used in younger children. The Commission has approved the drug for the treatment of children with cystic fibrosis (C...


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    FDA SLAPS CLINICAL HOLD ON TRANSLATE BIO’S MRNA THERAPY FOR RARE LIVER DISEASE

    Jan 22, 2019

    Translate Bio had been hoping that it would initiate clinical trials for its rare liver disease treatment asset MRT5201 this year. However, that hope has been delayed after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) placed a hold on the trial. This morning, Lexington, Mass.-based Translate Bio anno...


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    A BLOOD TEST THAT CAN ID ALZHEIMER'S RISK UP TO 16 YEARS BEFORE SYMPTOMS

    Jan 22, 2019

    As researchers struggle to find a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the field struggles with the difficulties of early diagnosis. There are a number of biomarkers identified that show a tendency toward the disease, such as ApoE, but not definitive tests. Researchers with the German Center for...


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    NOVO HOLDINGS INVESTS IN THREE MORE AMR BIOTECHS

    Jan 22, 2019

    Novo Holdings’ REPAIR Impact Fund, which helps fund companies tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), has announced three new investments. The first beneficiary is AstraZeneca spin-off Entasis Therapeutics, whose programmes include a new class of non-β-lactam PBP inhibitors (NBP) targeti...


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    TAKEDA MULLING SALE OF EMERGING MARKET DRUGS – REPORT

    Jan 22, 2019

    Takeda could be considering selling some emerging-market drugs in a bid to cut debts following its merger with the Shire that completed earlier this month, according to a press report. In order to finance the $62 billion takeovers, Takeda had to take out bank loans of around $31 billion and needs to...


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    NEW NANOPARTICLE TARGETS TUMOR-INFILTRATING IMMUNE CELLS, FLIPS SWITCH

    Jan 21, 2019

    Immunotherapy's promise in the fight against cancer drew international attention after two scientists won a Nobel Prize this year for unleashing the ability of the immune system to eliminate tumor cells. But their approach, which keeps cancer cells from shutting off the immune system's power...


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    HOW GUT BACTERIA AFFECT THE TREATMENT OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE

    Jan 21, 2019

    Patients with Parkinson's disease are treated with levodopa, which is converted into dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain. In a study published on 18 January in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Groningen show that gut bacteria can metabolize levodopa into...


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    NHS FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN PREVENTION – SURVEY

    Jan 21, 2019

    A new survey has revealed confusion amongst the UK public on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle, suggesting the NHS has a long way to go to meet its goal of more disease prevention. The survey, commissioned by Sanofi, reveals that while just over half (52%) of people think they lead a healthy lifes...


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    RESEARCH INTO OPIOID PAINKILLERS COULD PROVIDE CLUES FOR SAFER DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Jan 21, 2019

    Researchers have taken a step closer to understanding the body's response to opioid painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl, which could lead to the development of safer opioid drugs. Opioids are a class of powerful painkillers used to treat moderate to severe pain. They act on the nervous sys...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24802480

    RESEARCH INTO OPIOID PAINKILLERS COULD PROVIDE CLUES FOR SAFER DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Jan 21, 2019

    Researchers have taken a step closer to understanding the body's response to opioid painkillers such as morphine and fentanyl, which could lead to the development of safer opioid drugs. Opioids are a class of powerful painkillers used to treat moderate to severe pain. They act on the nervous sys...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24812481

    BRAIN-EATING AMOEBA INFECTIONS ARE RARE, BUT DEADLY—RESEARCH IS WORKING ON A CURE

    Jan 18, 2019

    The rate of incidence of infection by Naegleria fowleri in the U.S. is very, very low. But there’s something about picking up an incurable, brain-eating amoeba by swimming in freshwater lakes and rivers that understandably freaks people out. N. fowleri causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis...


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    J&J PARTNERS WITH APPLE FOR ECG MONITORING PROJECT

    Jan 18, 2019

    Apple has a new big pharma partner to help put its new Apple Watch with the built-in electrocardiogram (ECG) through its paces, signing an alliance with Johnson & Johnson. The collaboration centers on seeing if the Apple Watch’s heart rate monitoring ECG functions can be used for earlier d...


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    NOVARTIS AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY BEGIN R&D TIE-UP

    Jan 18, 2019

    Novartis and Oxford University have begun a partnership that will attempt to use artificial intelligence to predict how patients will respond to new and existing treatments for inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and psoriasis. The Swiss pharma has joined with the university’...


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    JANUARY 18 RESEARCH ROUNDUP: SKIN CANCER, TURNING CANCER CELLS INTO FAT CELLS, AND A LONGEVITY TEST

    Jan 18, 2019

    Researchers with American University have identified genetic factors that lead to squamous cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer. They published their work in the journal Oncogenesis. Squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common form of cancer in the U.S. and has the highest mortality rate of n...


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    SUN PHARMA DROPS TO 6-YEAR LOW ON REPORT OF ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT

    Jan 18, 2019

    Just weeks after Sun Pharma’s stock was hit by whistleblower allegations of insider trading, a second complaint reportedly filed to Indian regulators sent the drugmaker’s shares tumbling to a new six-year low. A whistleblower alleged in a 172-page complaint that dubious transactions amou...


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    UK RESEARCHERS INVESTIGATE ALTERNATIVES TO LONG-TERM OPIOID USE

    Jan 17, 2019

    A UK university has been awarded £2.4 million to research overprescribing of opioids, and how to improve treatment of patients with persistent pain without long-term use of these morphine-like drugs. The government-backed National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) awarded the money to resear...


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    TELEHEALTH FIRM SECURES MORE CASH TO EXPAND IN CHINA, JAPAN AND US

    Jan 17, 2019

    Telehealth firm Tyto Care has secured additional funding to help with the launch of its technology allowing for remote medical examinations. This latest $9 million funding round is an extension of an oversubscribed Series C round last year and brings the total funds raised to $33.5 million. Strategi...


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    UNITED NEUROSCIENCE INCHES CLOSER TO ALZHEIMER’S VACCINE PRIZE

    Jan 17, 2019

    A vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease developed by United Neuroscience has cleared a phase IIa trial and seems to be free of the toxicity that has scuppered earlier candidates. To be clear, there’s no solid evidence yet that United’s UB-311 candidate has an impact on cognition and memo...


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    FDA COMMITTEE VOTES 18-1 FOR AMGEN'S OSTEOPOROSIS DRUG

    Jan 17, 2019

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee (BRUDAC) voted 18 to 1 to recommend Amgen and UCB’s Evenity (romosozumab) to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. This follows a 2017 rejection by the agency, requesting more d...


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    LILLY’S VERZENIOS APPROVED BY NICE

    Jan 17, 2019

    NICE has published draft guidance that now recommends Eli Lilly’s breast cancer drug Verzenios for use on the NHS. The guidance concludes that Verzenios (abemaciclib) is as effective as its rivals, Pfizer’s Ibrance (palbociclib) and Novartis’ Kisqali (ribociclib), which NICE approv...


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    APTINYX’S MID-STAGE NMDA RECEPTOR FAILS TO HIT ENDPOINTS IN NEUROPATHIC PAIN STUDY

    Jan 16, 2019

    Shares of Illinois-based Aptinyx have plunged more than 67 percent in premarket trading after the company announced its mid-stage treatment for painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy failed to show statistical significance. Aptinyx’s NYX-2925 is a novel NMDA receptor, which earned Fast Track d...


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    DIFFICULTIES WITH AUDIOVISUAL PROCESSING CONTRIBUTES TO DYSLEXIA IN CHILDREN

    Jan 16, 2019

    A University at Buffalo psychologist has published a neuroimaging study that could help develop tests for early identification of dyslexia, a disorder that affects 80 percent of those diagnosed with difficulties reading, writing and spelling. Tasks which require audiovisual processing are especially...


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    MERCK BUMPS KEYTRUDA CREDIBILITY WITH REAL DOCTOR APPEARANCE IN LATEST ‘TRU’ PATIENT ADS

    Jan 16, 2019

    Merck & Co. is changing the game again in oncology ads, this time putting a real doctor to work in its Keytruda patient campaign. The latest additions to the multichannel "It's Tru" work include two TV ads, one with oncologist Goetz Kloecker, M.D., alone and a second where he appea...


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    OXYCONTIN MAKER SOUGHT 'BLIZZARD OF PRESCRIPTIONS’, COURT DOCUMENTS SHOW

    Jan 16, 2019

    The notorious legacy of OxyContin continues to be a major black mark against Purdue Pharma. And that mark is only getting worse as a court case against the opioid manufacturer has revealed company officials used deceptive marketing practices to boost sales of the drug. Documents in a Massachusetts c...


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    PFIZER SET FOR JULY FDA VERDICT ON RARE HEART DISEASE DRUG

    Jan 15, 2019

    Pfizer is finally closing on approval of its rare disease therapy tafamidis in the US, several years after it first reached the market in Europe. The FDA has accepted two separate marketing applications for the drug – both for cardiomyopathy associated with the rare disease ATTR amyloidosis &n...


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    DESPITE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, EXELIXIS SNAGS FDA APPROVAL FOR HCC DRUG CABOMETYX

    Jan 15, 2019

    Shares of Alameda, Calif.-based Exelixis are climbing after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) treatment Cabometyx (cabozantinib). It was previously approved for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma. The approval came despi...


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    AHA SAYS PENALTIES AS WELL AS INCENTIVES ARE NEEDED TO FACE DOWN 'PERSISTENT' DRUG SHORTAGES

    Jan 15, 2019

    Persistent drug shortages have become dangerous and costly, the American Hospital Association says, forcing staff to use drugs with which they have less experience and that are sometimes more expensive. Responding to an FDA request for comment, the AHA, which represents 5,000 hospitals and 270,000 p...


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    FDA APPROVES RECORD-BREAKING 59 NOVEL DRUGS IN 2018

    Jan 15, 2019

    The past year proved to be a big one for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the approval of novel drugs. Over the course of 2018, the FDA approved 59 different novel drugs that range for the treatment of various cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), traveler’s dia...


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    AIMMUNE’S PEANUT ALLERGY TREATMENT DELAYED AS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN CONTINUES

    Jan 15, 2019

    The partial government shutdown has entered day 24 and the pharma and medtech industry is beginning to feel the impact even more, particularly as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) grows more incapable of reviewing some medications for approval. On Monday, California-based Aimmune Therapeut...


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    SMARTPHONE APP DETECTS OPIOID OVERDOSE

    Jan 14, 2019

    Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a smartphone app that can detect if someone is experiencing an opioid overdose. The app uses sonar to monitor the breathing rate of a user, which it can do from up to three feet away, to assess if someone is experiencing an overdose. So far,...


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    BRAINCARTA MAPS CREATES MAPS FOR BRAIN SURGERIES: CES 2019

    Jan 14, 2019

    Brain surgery is a complicated business, requiring utmost precision when excising tumors and other maladies. BrainCarta, a Dutch firm, is showing off its Elonav technology that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to create maps of lesions and provide helpful analysis about the ne...


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    FDA GIVES AMNEAL'S GENERIC ALZHEIMER’S & PARKINSON’S PATCH A THUMBS-UP

    Jan 14, 2019

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bridgewater, NJ-based Amneal Pharmaceuticals’ generic version of Novartis’ Exelon Patch (Rivastigmine Transdermal System) for dementia related to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. The two companies were involved in pate...


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    FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE'RE MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM ACCIDENTAL OPIOID OVERDOSE THAN MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH

    Jan 14, 2019

    National Safety Council analysis reveals trends that worsen the odds of dying accidentally. For the first time in U.S. history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle crash, according to National Safety Council analysis. The odds of dying accident...


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    MORE ACCURATE LEUKEMIA DIAGNOSIS EXPECTED AS RESEARCHERS REFINE LEUKEMIA CLASSIFICATION

    Jan 14, 2019

    Like cartographers completing a map, investigators have identified multiple new subtypes of the most common childhood cancer research that will likely improve the diagnosis and treatment of high-risk patients. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists led the study, which appears as an ad...


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    PHARMA FEELS IMPACT OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AS FDA DRUG REVIEW WORK SLOWS

    Jan 11, 2019

    As the partial government shutdown enters its 21st day, tying it for the longest U.S. shutdown in history, the impact is becoming more and more realized within the pharmaceutical industry. Most noticeably for pharma and biotech, the partial shutdown has brought a halt to some of the operations of th...


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    KYOWA HAKKO KIRIN SIGNS AI DRUG R&D DEAL WITH INVENIAI

    Jan 11, 2019

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning company InveniAI has joined with Kyowa Hakko Kirin to harness the power of technology for drug discovery. The companies are the latest to use AI and machine learning to make the drug development process more effective. In this case, Kyowa Hakko Kirin will...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24202420

    NEOLEUKIN THERAPEUTICS HOPES TO IMPROVE ON NATURE'S APPROACH TO BATTLING CANCER

    Jan 11, 2019

    One of the key immune regulatory proteins is interleukin 2 (IL-2). It has used in treating cancer and autoimmune disease but has toxic side effects that limit its use. Researchers at the University of Washington Medicine’s Institute for Protein Design recently created a protein that mimics the...


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    DOES OPIOID USE IN PETS CREATE HIGHER RISK FOR ABUSE IN HUMANS?

    Jan 11, 2019

    The increase in opioid prescriptions for people over the past decade may have been paralleled by an increase in opioid prescriptions for pets, according to a study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine. The findings...


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    RESEARCHERS ANSWER DECADES-OLD QUESTION ABOUT PROTEIN FOUND IN ALZHEIMER'S BRAIN PLAQUES

    Jan 11, 2019

    Alzheimer's-affected brains are riddled with amyloid plaques, protein aggregates consisting mainly of amyloid-β. However, amyloid-β is a fragment produced from a precursor protein whose normal function has remained enigmatic for decades. A team of scientists at VIB and KU Leuven led by...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24232423

    EUSA PHARMA BUYS RIGHTS TO JANSSEN RARE DISEASE DRUG

    Jan 10, 2019

    UK-based EUSA Pharma has bought worldwide rights to Janssen’s rare diseases drug Sylvant (siltuximab) for $115 million. EUSA already markets two oncology drugs and is seeking to build its presence in the rare disease market with Sylvant, which has been approved in the US since 2014 to treat mu...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24092409

    NICE REJECTS NOVARTIS’ MIGRAINE PREVENTION DRUG AIMOVIG

    Jan 10, 2019

    Some migraine sufferers in the UK hoping to get access to Novartis’ new migraine prevention drug Aimovig are facing disappointment after NICE rejected it in the draft guidance. The cost-effectiveness watchdog says that it can’t recommend routine NHS use of Aimovig (erenumab) for people s...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24102410

    ALZHEIMER’S: NEW APPROACHES AND NEW HOPE

    Jan 10, 2019

    Unfortunately, 2018 marked yet another bad year for Alzheimer’s disease drug development. There were easily half-a-dozen major clinical drug trial failures, leading one analyst to call Alzheimer’s drug development “an unrelenting disaster zone.” These failures included: Taked...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24112411

    HRT TABLETS LINKED TO HIGHER BLOOD CLOT RISK: STUDY

    Jan 10, 2019

    Certain types of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could lead to an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), a new study has suggested. HRT is used to prevent a range of symptoms experienced by many women during the menopause, such as hot flushes and night sweats. The study, by researchers fr...


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    NOVARTIS DEFENDS ITSELF AGAINST KICKBACK ALLEGATIONS FROM FORMER EMPLOYEE

    Jan 10, 2019

    Swiss pharma giant Novartis has found itself at the center of a legal battle that could determine if the company engaged in a research project that was a kickback in disguise. Former Novartis executive Min Amy Guo has alleged that in 2012, the company initiated a study of breast cancer drug Afinitor...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24132413

    GREEN ALTERNATIVE FOR DRUG PRODUCTION

    Jan 09, 2019

    For the production of drugs, pesticides, and smartphone displays, most of the processes are cost-intensive and generate a large amount of waste. Scientists at the University of Göttingen have now succeeded in developing a resource-saving "green" alternative. The results were published...


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    UNDERSTANDING INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY STUDYING BACTERIAL IMMUNITY

    Jan 09, 2019

    Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often causing death. P. aeruginosa itself can also be infected by viruses, which can affect the clinical outcomes of cystic fibrosis patients. “Just like human...


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    NEAR INFRARED FOOD SHELF LIFE SCANNER

    Jan 09, 2019

    Spoiled food is a global problem and people end up sick all the time. Modern methods of detecting spoiled food include smelling it, looking for moldy spots, and arguing with your spouse whether a given item is ready to be thrown in the trash. Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24012401

    NOVARTIS’ SICKLE CELL DRUG GETS BREAKTHROUGH THERAPY DESIGNATION

    Jan 09, 2019

    The FDA has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Novartis’ crizanlizumab for the prevention of vaso-occlusive crises (VOCs) in patients of all genotypes with sickle cell disease. Also known as sickle cell pain crises, VOCs are unpredictable and extremely painful events that can lead to ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=24022402

    TAKEDA’S SHIRE TAKEOVER COULD HERALD NEW ERA OF PHARMA M&A

    Jan 09, 2019

    Takeda has officially taken over the Shire in a deal that could re-establish the trend for mega-mergers in big pharma. The merger was approved yesterday in a court hearing in Jersey, where the Shire was officially based, although it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and domiciled in Ireland fo...


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    IT’S A WRAP! TAKEDA-SHIRE MERGER IS A DONE DEAL, MAKING TAKEDA THE LARGEST MASS. BIOTECH EMPLOYER

    Jan 08, 2019

    Last year’s sole mega-deal, the acquisition of Dublin-based Shire by Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical is finally closed. Takeda, 237 years old, is now a top 10 international drug company. The entire deal began in March 2018, with Takeda expressing an interest in buying the Shire. Once it was ...


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    NOVARTIS TALKS MOVE TO CELL AND GENE THERAPIES AT JPM

    Jan 08, 2019

    Following a strong post-hoc analysis of mid-stage data in the fall of 2018, Novartis announced this morning the company’s experimental humanized anti-P-selectin monoclonal antibody was crizanlizumab granted Breakthrough Therapy Status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Crizanlizum...


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    UROGEN APPOINTS FORMER NOVARTIS CANCER CHIEF BARRETT AS CEO

    Jan 08, 2019

    Novartis’ former oncology CEO Liz Barrett has left to join little-known biotech, UroGen, to help bring its potential urothelial cancer drug to market. Barrett raised eyebrows last month when she announced her decision to leave Novartis after less than a year in charge of its oncology unit, but...


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    2018 SET BENCHMARK FOR DIGITAL HEALTH INVESTMENT – REPORT

    Jan 08, 2019

    Last year was the biggest ever for digital health investment, according to a report that has been tracking the market since the beginning of the decade. According to the report by Startup Health Insights, investment in digital health has increased 14-fold since 2010. In 2018, funding for digital hea...


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    AFTER ANNOUNCING A NEW CEO, UROGEN TOUTS POSITIVE PHASE III DATA FOR UROTHELIAL CANCER

    Jan 08, 2019

    UroGen Pharma, based in New York, announced positive topline results from its Phase III OLYMPUS clinical trial. The trial evaluated UGN-101 (mitomycin gel) for installation for the non-surgical treatment of low-grade upper tract urothelial cancer (UTUC). Of the 71 patients in the trial, 61 have been...


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    SANOFI AND REGENERON RESTRUCTURE IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY COLLABORATION TO ADD TWO NEW PRODUCTS

    Jan 07, 2019

    Tarrytown, NY-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Paris-based Sanofi restructured a 2015 agreement to develop immuno-oncology (I/O) treatments. That deal was scheduled to wrap in 2020, but the revision adds two clinical-stage bispecific antibodies to the collaboration. The revision lets Regeneron ho...


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    NHS LOOKS TO DIGITAL AND GENOMICS TO SECURE ITS FUTURE

    Jan 07, 2019

    Genomics, digital tech, and artificial intelligence are at the forefront of the government’s long-term plan for the NHS, unveiled today. In a statement, the health service said it believed the plans would save almost half a million more lives and would make the NHS ‘fit for the future&rs...


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    PAIR OF DEALS BOOSTS BIOGEN’S EARLY-STAGE CNS PIPELINE

    Jan 07, 2019

    Biogen has signed a brace of collaborations to expand its central nervous system (CNS) pipeline, adding new candidates for Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and other neurological diseases. The first of the new deals is a $415 million collaboration with protein degradation specialist C4 Therapeu...


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    TAKEDA UNLIKELY TO SELL OTC UNIT TO PAY SHIRE MERGER DEBTS

    Jan 07, 2019

    Takeda’s $59 billion takeover of Shire is due to close tomorrow (Tuesday) and the company’s CEO Christophe Weber has already given some strong clues about the company’s strategy once the deal completes. Last week Takeda announced three new research collaborations in immuno-oncology...


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    OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE SYMPTOMS IN YOUTH: A PSYCHOLOGICAL RED FLAG?

    Jan 07, 2019

    Engaging in repetitive and ritualistic behaviors is part of typical child development. However, behaviors that develop into obsessive and compulsive symptoms (OCS) may represent a red flag for serious psychiatric conditions. Researchers at the Lifespan Brain Institute (LiBI) of Children’s Hosp...


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    SELECTA BIOSCIENCES' NEW CEO RESTRUCTURES, CUTS 36% OF STAFF

    Jan 04, 2019

    Selecta Biosciences, based in Watertown, Mass., announced that as part of restructuring efforts it is cutting its current workforce by 36 percent. The company believes that the cuts, along with a reprioritization of its pipeline, will decrease its yearly cash burn by 19 percent. At its third-quarter...


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    AMPLIPHI BIOSCIENCES AND C3J THERAPEUTICS AGREE TO MERGE

    Jan 04, 2019

    AmpliPhi Biosciences  Corporation (“AmpliPhi”) (NYSE American: APHB), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precisely targeted bacteriophage therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant infections, and C3J Therapeutics, Inc. (“C3J”), a private cli...


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    X-CHEM AND VERTEX EXPAND EXISTING PARTNERSHIP

    Jan 04, 2019

    X-Chem Inc., a privately held biotechnology company focused on applying its industry-leading DNA-encoded (DEX™) drug discovery engine to the generation of novel small molecule therapeutics, today announced the expansion of its collaboration with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRT...


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    BIONTECH TEAMS UP WITH SANOFI TO TARGET SOLID TUMORS IN $91.5 MILLION DEAL

    Jan 04, 2019

    Days ahead of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Germany-based BioNTech extended its three-year-old collaboration with Sanofi as the companies look to co-develop the first cancer immunotherapy candidate for solid tumors. As part of the deal, the French pharma giant will invest about $91.5 millio...


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    ABBVIE FORGES $105 MILLION+ CD39 INHIBITOR ALLIANCE WITH TIZONA

    Jan 04, 2019

    Privately-held Tizona Therapeutics snagged $105 million in upfront cash as its cancer antibody TTX-030 is the centerpiece of a collaborative effort with Illinois-based AbbVie. The two companies intend to combine their R&D capabilities with a focus on CD39-targeted therapeutics. CD39 is the enzym...


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    AMRA PROFILER CLEARED BY FDA FOR BODY COMPOSITION ANALYSIS FROM MRI SCANS

    Jan 03, 2019

    AMRA Medical, a company based in Linköping, Sweden, won FDA clearance to introduce its AMRA Profiler technology for fat and muscle composition analysis. The product relies on a six-minute MRI scan, performed using a compatible scanner, with the imaging data being sent to AMRA’s servers. A...


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    SANOFI PALMS OFF MYOKARDIA HEART DISEASE PACT

    Jan 03, 2019

    Sanofi has walked away from a four-year-old alliance with US biotech MyoKardia, handing back rights to three drugs for heart disease. The decision comes ahead of data readouts for two of the clinical candidates – mavacamten and MYK-491 – within the next 12 to 24 months and comes as Sanof...


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    GIVE IT TO US STRAIGHT, DOCTORS TELL PHARMA ADVERTISERS—BUT BEING FUNNY IS OK, TOO

    Jan 03, 2019

    Want to catch doctors’ attention with flashy advertising and intellectual jargon? Don’t bother. A new study finds that physicians prefer simple and clear messages, with more than half (51%) admitting they don’t always understand what’s being communicated in pharma advertising...


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    GLASSY CARBON MICRONEEDLES: A NEW TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE

    Jan 03, 2019

    Microneedles are designed to infuse medications transdermally (through the skin) and relatively painlessly during clinical applications. In a recent study, Richa Mishra and her colleagues developed a new technique to convert polymer films into a fracture-resistant glassy form of carbon to develop mi...


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    SURPRISE DISCOVERY REVEALS SECOND VISUAL SYSTEM IN MOUSE CEREBRAL CORTEX

    Jan 03, 2019

    The visual system is probably the best-understood part of the brain. Over the past 75 years, neuroscientists have assembled a detailed account of how light waves entering your eyes allow you to recognize your grandmother's face, to track a hawk in flight, or to read this sentence. But a new stud...


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    BIOXCEL’S AGITATION DRUG GETS FDA FAST TRACK

    Jan 02, 2019

    The FDA has granted Fast Track Designation to BioXcel Therapeutics’ BXCL501 for the treatment of acute agitation resulting from neurological and psychiatric disorders like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia. BioXcel is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical development company utilizing novel art...


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    PROMETHERA LOOKS TO ASIA WITH €10M INVESTMENT

    Jan 02, 2019

    Belgium-based liver disease specialists Promethera Biosciences have received a leg-up for the Asian market in the form of a €10 million investment from Japanese business conglomerate ITOCHU Corporation. ITOCHU is the first lead investor in Promethera’s Series D round, which the company ex...


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    MSD AND PFIZER TOP DOW FOR 2018

    Jan 02, 2019

    MSD and Pfizer were 2018’s top gainers on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the calendar year, with both companies bucking the trend of an otherwise lacklustre year for the index. MSD was the biggest Dow winner, with shares of the company surging more than 30%, with a dividend yield of 2.9%...


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    TEVA AND NEOS SETTLE OVER COTEMPLA PATENT DISPUTE

    Jan 02, 2019

    Teva and Neos Therapeutics have reached a confidential settlement and licensing agreement that resolves a patent dispute over the Israeli firm’s generic version of Neos’ ADHD drug Cotempla XR-ODT (methylphenidate). Under the settlement and license agreement, Neos has granted Teva the rig...


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    MYCENAX’S ACTEMRA BIOSIMILAR EDGES CLOSER TO APPROVAL

    Dec 31, 2018

    Mycenax’s biosimilar of Roche’s Actemra (tocilizumab), LusiNEX, has been shown to match its originator’s profile in a phase I PK trial, meaning it is on track to become the first approved biosimilar for the drug. Actemra, marketed as RoActemra in the EU, is approved for immunology ...


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    NUCLEUS-SPECIFIC X-RAY STAIN FOR 3-D VIRTUAL HISTOLOGY

    Dec 27, 2018

    Histology is used to identify structural details of tissue at the microscale in the pathology lab, but analyses remain two-dimensional (2D) as they are limited to the same plane. Nondestructive 3D technologies including X-ray micro and nano-computed tomography (nanoCT) have proven validity to unders...


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    PROPORTION OF CANCERS ASSOCIATED WITH EXCESS BODY WEIGHT VARIES CONSIDERABLY BY STATE

    Dec 27, 2018

    A new study looking at the share of cancers related to obesity finds an at least 1.5-fold difference between states with the highest and lowest proportions. The proportion of cancer cases that could be attributable to excess body weight ranged from a high of 8.3% in the District of Columbia to a low...


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    YOUR BRAIN REWARDS YOU TWICE PER MEAL: WHEN YOU EAT AND WHEN FOOD REACHES YOUR STOMACH

    Dec 27, 2018

    We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Germany suggests that dopamine release in the brain occurs at two different times: at the time the food is first ingested and another on...


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    SLEEPING SICKNESS PARASITE USES MULTIPLE METABOLIC PATHWAYS

    Dec 27, 2018

    Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by David Horn of the University of Dundee in the UK, and colleagues. The authors note that this ...


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    ACORDA SNAGS APPROVAL FOR NEW TREATMENT OF OFF EPISODES OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE

    Dec 26, 2018

    Acorda Therapeutics can breathe a bit easier. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Inbrija, the first inhaled formula of levodopa (L-dopa) for the intermittent treatment of OFF episodes in Parkinson’s disease patients. The approval came about two weeks before its PUDFA date. Th...

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    POINT-COUNTERPOINT: SENATOR WARREN'S GENERIC DRUG PROPOSAL

    Dec 26, 2018

    Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), proposed The Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act, which would allow the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to manufacture or contract out the manufacture of generic drugs. Warren argues that the generic drug system was designed to promote competition, which ...


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    THE FDA APPROVES TWO ORPHAN BLOOD DISORDER DRUGS

    Dec 26, 2018

    The U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two drugs for separate blood disorders, Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ Ultomiris for the rare blood disorder paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), and Stemline Therapeutics’ Elzonris for blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDC...


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    FDA ACTION ALERT: WRAPPING UP 2018 AND HEADING INTO 2019

    Dec 26, 2018

    With the holidays upon us, along with the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) squeezed some target action dates into the last weeks and beginning of the new year. As it turned out, these appear to be a mixed bag of extensions, resubmissions and suppleme...


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    DUSA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. AWARDED PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIVE RELIEF PROHIBITING BIOFRONTERA FROM USING ITS TRADE SECRETS

    Dec 26, 2018

    MUMBAI, India and PRINCETON, New Jersey, December 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., ("DUSA"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Reuters: SUN.BO) (Bloomberg: SUNP IN) (NSE: SUNPHARMA) (BSE: 524715) announced that DUSA has been granted prelim...


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    FRAMINGHAM SUES DRUG MAKERS, DISTRIBUTORS OVER OPIOID EPIDEMIC

    Dec 24, 2018

    City officials are pressing their case against drug makers and distributors for what they describe as reckless conduct that fueled the nation’s opioid epidemic. A pair of law firms representing the city recently filed a lawsuit in Middlesex Superior Court seeking damages from a range of major ...


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    IBM RESEARCH SHOWS HOW HEALTH INSIGHTS MAY COME FROM FINGERNAIL WEARABLE

    Dec 24, 2018

    A tiny fingernail sensor has been worked up that monitors diseases and movement disorders. IBM Research tells their prototype story in a December video. The IBM team designed the tiny fingernail sensors to help clinicians detect and monitor the progression of disease via AI analysis and grip strengt...


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    CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY TREATMENT MARKET IS EXPECTED TO EXPERIENCE A RAPID GROWTH BY 2025

    Dec 24, 2018

    Global and China Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Treatment Market Research by Company, Type & Application 2013-2025 is latest research study released by HTF MI evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, risk side analysis, and leveraged with strategic and tactical decision-mak...


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    PARAMEDICS CAN SAFELY EVALUATE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS' MEDICAL CONDITION IN THE FIELD

    Dec 24, 2018

    Emergency medical personnel in Alameda County, California, use a screening process for determining whether to "medically clear" patients experiencing psychiatric emergencies before transporting them. They identify patients who are at low risk for medical emergencies and take them directly ...


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    CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING DRUGS REDUCE BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE

    Dec 21, 2018

    ETH Zurich scientists have shown that statins, one of the most commonly prescribed classes of pharmaceuticals, reduce beneficial brown adipose tissue. But this is no reason to demonize these drugs, the researchers insist. A certain proportion of the adult population has not only white adipose (or fa...


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    TOWARD VACCINATION AGAINST THE CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS

    Dec 21, 2018

    A live vaccine genetically engineered from a common measles vaccine promises to be effective against the chikungunya virus. Such is the central finding of a recently completed Phase II trial now published in the prestigious journal The Lancet. Two MedUni Vienna departments were also involved in the ...


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    NOVARTIS OFFERS TO BUY KYMRIAH MANUFACTURER

    Dec 21, 2018

    Following its success in the burgeoning area of CAR-T therapies, Novartis is looking to strengthen its cell and gene manufacturing capabilities by offering to acquire CDMO CellforCure, manufacturers of its CAR-T drug Kymriah. Under the proposed agreement, Novartis would acquire the share capital of ...


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    GENE DISCOVERY REVEALS NEW TARGETS FOR TREATING ATHEROSCLEROSIS, INFLAMMATORY DISEASES

    Dec 21, 2018

    A group of genes that have been largely ignored by scientists could play critical roles in atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), inflammation, and likely obesity and other metabolic diseases, new research suggests. The discovery was made by researchers at the University of Virginia School of ...


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    RESEARCHERS DEVELOP SIGHT-SAVING TREATMENT FOR EYE INFECTION OR TRAUMA

    Dec 21, 2018

    Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a novel eye drop that rapidly reduces sight-threatening scarring to the surface of the eye. The surface of the eye (the cornea) is usually transparent, but scars resulting from eye infection or trauma make it opaque causing blurred vision or ...


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    AZ/MERCK & CO GET NEW US USE FOR OVARIAN CANCER DRUG

    Dec 20, 2018

    After several disappointments this year AstraZeneca has ended 2018 on a positive note, gaining a new use for its ovarian cancer drug Lynparza in the US and the first approval in China for its new anemia drug. While AZ’s immunotherapy drug Imfinzi has made some missteps recently, most notably i...


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    AS IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY HEADS INTO 2019, ONE THING IS CLEAR: IT’S GOOD TO BE MERCK

    Dec 20, 2018

    When 2018 began, there was still plenty of uncertainty surrounding the previously untreated lung cancer market—the holy grail for immuno-oncology drugmakers, thanks to its sheer size. Merck had the lead with two approvals for Keytruda, but three other companies were awaiting combo data and aim...


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    AFTER NEW YEAR'S, EXPECT MORE DRUG PRICING FIREWORKS IN 2019

    Dec 20, 2018

    For several years, pharma watchers have witnessed drug pricing grow into a top issue facing the industry, dominating discussion almost daily. The conversation isn’t likely to subside next year, either. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle including the newly Democratic House—and the Trum...


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    SCOTLAND’S NHS COULD REIMBURSE VERTEX CF DRUGS, PRICE ROW ONGOING IN ENGLAND

    Dec 20, 2018

    Vertex is to file its two latest cystic fibrosis drugs with Scotland’s drug cost watchdog in a bid for NHS reimbursement – but an ongoing row over price in England is still unresolved. The US pharma said it will submit files for Orkambi (lumacaftor+ivacaftor), and Symkevi (tezacaftor+iva...


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    SCIENTISTS ADVISE CAUTION IN IMMUNOTHERAPY RESEARCH

    Dec 20, 2018

    In a new study, Yale Cancer Center (YCC) scientists suggest that as the number of clinical trials in cancer immunotherapy grows exponentially, some caution should be exercised as we continue to better understand the biology of these new therapeutic targets. The findings are published today in the jo...


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    PATIENT-SPECIFIC ORGANOID MODELS APPENDIX CANCER TREATMENT

    Dec 19, 2018

    Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) have recently developed a process that may change the way cancer of the appendix is treated in the future. Researchers at WFIRM, in collaboration with the Department of Surgery – Surgical Oncology at Wake Forest Baptist ...


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    DETECTING LUNG CANCER – THINKING OUTSIDE THE TUMOR

    Dec 19, 2018

    Scientists in Anant Madabhushi's computational imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University have started thinking outside the box--or in their case, looking outside the tumor. They're hoping that this novel computerized approach represents a historic leap in diagnosing cancer using just ro...


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    ZIKA VACCINE PROTECTS MOUSE FETUSES AGAINST BRAIN INFECTIONS AND MALFORMATIONS

    Dec 19, 2018

    In 2015 and 2016, the world was shocked by the sudden and massive outbreak of the Zika virus in Latin America. “The Zika virus is transmitted by the tiger mosquito and, in most cases, the patient experiences no or only mild symptoms,” says Professor Johan Neyts. “But when a pregnan...


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    PREGNANT WOMEN AND EXTREMELY OBESE PEOPLE AT HIGH RISK OF FLU COMPLICATIONS

    Dec 19, 2018

    Pregnant women and the extremely obese are among those at high risk for complications from the flu – including death – and should be tested and begin antiviral treatment promptly if they are sick enough to be hospitalized with flu symptoms, according to updated guidelines released by the...


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    TETRA, SHIONOGI INK $40M PACT ON PDE4 DRUG FOR ALZHEIMER’S, FRAGILE X

    Dec 19, 2018

    Tetra Discovery Partners is teaming up with Shionogi to advance its PDE4-targeting drug in Alzheimer’s disease and fragile X syndrome. In return for the rights to the drug in three Asian countries, Shionogi will hand over a $5 million upfront payment and $35 million in equity. If all goes well...


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    AXOVANT BUYS MORE GENE THERAPIES, SETTING IT UP FOR A BUSY 2019

    Dec 14, 2018

    Axovant has licensed two gene therapies from the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). The deal accelerates Axovant’s evolution into a gene therapy specialist by giving it control of two assets that are in or near the clinic. Following the failures of intepirdine and nelotanserin,...


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    WUXI APPTEC EYES ACQUISITIONS AFTER $1BN HONG KONG IPO

    Dec 14, 2018

    Chinese biotech WuXi AppTec has completed its listing on Hong Kong’s HKEX, raising $967m just months after making its debut on the Shanghai exchange. The company which provides contract research, development, and manufacturing services to pharma, medical device and biotech firms – said t...


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    IPSEN WARNS OVER MEDICINE SUPPLIES AMID BREXIT UNCERTAINTY

    Dec 14, 2018

    France’s Ipsen has become the latest pharma company to warn about the impact of Brexit on the pharma industry and patients’ access to medicines. As Theresa May attempts to drum up support for her Brexit deal, the French pharma said it was taking steps to minimize disruption to supplies o...


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    RESEARCHERS ZERO IN ON POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR DIABETES, ASSOCIATED DISEASES

    Dec 14, 2018

    A recent study led by researchers in Texas A&M University's department of nutrition and food science shows how a novel regulatory mechanism serves as an important biomarker for the development of diabetes, as well as a potential therapeutic target for its prevention. The study can be found o...


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    EARLY PHYSICAL THERAPY CAN REDUCE RISK, AMOUNT OF LONG-TERM OPIOID USE, STUDY FINDS

    Dec 14, 2018

    Patients who underwent physical therapy soon after being diagnosed with pain in the shoulder, neck, low back or knee were approximately 7 to 16 percent less likely to use opioids in the subsequent months, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the D...


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    MATERIALISE AND CARESTREAM TO RELEASE BROWSER-DRIVEN PRE-OP AND 3D PRINTING SOFTWARE

    Dec 13, 2018

    Materialise, a company that 3D prints millions of unique medical parts every year, has partnered with Carestream Health to release a browser-driven pre-operative planning solution. The product will give orthopedic surgeons the ability to plan surgeries and order custom surgical guides and other 3D p...


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    MYLAN, BIOCON COPY INCHES CLOSER TO CHALLENGING SANOFI'S LONG-SUFFERING LANTUS

    Dec 13, 2018

    Sanofi’s Lantus is already facing off against generic competition from Eli Lilly and Boehringer’s Basaglar, but now Mylan is adding to the pressure by prevailing in a patent challenge at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The PTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated two L...


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    GARMIN TO DEVELOP WEARABLES FOR CLINICAL TRIALS WITH ACTIGRAPH

    Dec 13, 2018

    Tech-giant Garmin is stepping into the medical wearables space through a new collaboration with ActiGraph. The partnership will explore health and activity monitoring innovations combining Garmin wearables with ActiGraph‘s Centrepoint data analytics platform for academic research, clinical tri...


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    FDA HAILS 2018 AS BUMPER YEAR FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSES

    Dec 13, 2018

    The FDA has hailed 2018 as a standout year for drug development and approvals, both in terms of the quantity and quality of activity. With the FDA approving 55 new molecular entities (NMEs) over the first 11 months of the year, 2018 has eased past 1996 to become the busiest year ever. Perhaps more i...


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    MERCK AND BRAZIL'S INSTITUTO BUTANTAN TEAM TO DEVELOP AT LEAST TWO DENGUE VACCINES

    Dec 13, 2018

    Merck & Company inked a research collaboration deal with Instituto Butantan, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to develop vaccines against dengue virus disease. Dengue fever infects as many as 400 million people annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It is th...


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    JOHNSON & JOHNSON CHIEF FIGURES AMAZON COULD SHAKE UP PHARMA'S DISTRIBUTION, REBATES AND MORE

    Dec 11, 2018

    There’s been plenty of speculation about Amazon's intentions in pharmaceuticals, and now Johnson & Johnson’s CEO has weighed in on how the tech giant could affect drug markets by shaking up pharma distribution and reimbursement. Speaking with Fortune’s Susie Gharib, J&J...


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    ABBVIE CONTINUES CHARITABLE GIVING, DONATES $50 MILLION TO ST. JUDE

    Dec 11, 2018

    Christmas came a little early for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the form of a $50 million contribution from pharma giant AbbVie – the largest single contribution made to the famed hospital. The multi-million donation will be used to support the construction of a new Family Commo...


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    NICE REVEALS NEW STANDARDS FOR DIGITAL TECH

    Dec 11, 2018

    NICE has published new standards set out the requirements needed to develop digital health technologies for the NHS and speed up the uptake of products like healthcare apps and wearable devices. Working collaboratively NHS England, NICE, NHS Digital, MedCity, Public Health England, and DigitalHealth...


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    AKORN SEARCHES FOR NEW CEO AFTER FAILED FRESENIUS MERGER

    Dec 11, 2018

    US generics firm Akorn is searching for a new CEO in the wake of a failed merger with Fresenius Kabi last year. Akorn had been set to merge with Fresenius Kabi in 2017, but the German pharma axed the deal citing problems with data integrity at the US pharma. The deal was undone when whistleblowers f...


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    BOEHRINGER FOLLOWS SANOFI WITH JOB CUTS IN FRANCE

    Dec 11, 2018

    Boehringer Ingelheim has confirmed it plans to axe more than 10% of its workforce in France, or more than 300 jobs, adding to several hundred losses at Sanofi last week. The privately-held German drugmaker says it will eliminate 327 positions – 197 in human health and 130 in its animal health ...


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    AXOVANT ABANDONS ANOTHER DEMENTIA DRUG AFTER FAILED TRIAL

    Dec 10, 2018

    There is very little doubt that developing drugs for neuroscience disorders in general and dementias, in particular, is a high-risk business. Axovant Sciences, unfortunately, seems to be finding that out the hard way. The company announced today that its Phase II clinical trial of nelotanserin for t...


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    QED THERAPEUTICS ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATION WITH FOUNDATION MEDICINE TO DEVELOP COMPANION DIAGNOSTICS FOR INFIGRATINIB

    Dec 10, 2018

    QED Therapeutics today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Foundation Medicine to develop a companion diagnostic for infigratinib, an FGFR1-3 selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in patients with cholangiocarcinoma. The companion diagnostic, which will include detection of activatin...


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    GILEAD HIRES ROCHE’S PHARMA CHIEF DANIEL O’DAY AS CEO

    Dec 10, 2018

    Roche executive Daniel O’Day is to take the helm at Gilead after John Milligan steps down as CEO at the end of this year, the company has announced. Currently CEO of Roche Pharmaceuticals since 2012, O’Day was previously leader of Roche’s Diagnostics division and has a career spann...


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    PHARMA COMPANIES WARNED OVER ‘NO DEAL’ BREXIT DISRUPTION

    Dec 10, 2018

    The government is asking pharma companies to introduce additional measures, over and above the stockpiles already in place, in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit. Health secretary Matt Hancock said that after Brexit, the government will find ways to ensure goods can continue to flow into th...


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    MACROGENICS HALTS TRIALS OF CANCER DRUG AFTER FDA PARTIAL HOLD

    Dec 10, 2018

    Potential liver-related side effects have led to the FDA placing a partial clinical hold on a MacroGenics-developed bispecific antibody for cancer. The regulator sent Rockville, Maryland-based MacroGenics a letter last week placing the hold on a phase 1 trial of MGD009 as a monotherapy as well as a ...


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    SUPERNUS SAYS ADHD DRUG TROUNCES RIVALS, BUT SHARES SLIDE

    Dec 07, 2018

    Supernus Pharma has two phase III trials showing its attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug SPN-812 met its objectives, but still saw its shares fall as investors digested the data. The US biotech has been positioning the non-stimulant drug as a safer, more tolerable alternative to alr...


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    CANCER VACCINE VALIDATED IN MICE

    Dec 07, 2018

    The idea of a cancer vaccine is something researchers have been working on for over 50 years, but until recently they were never able to prove exactly how such a vaccine would work. Now, a team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at Université de Montr...


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    ELIMINATING HIV'S LATENT RESERVOIR

    Dec 07, 2018

    A new study suggests that a genetic switch that causes latent HIV inside cells to begin to replicate can be manipulated to completely eradicate the virus from the human body. Cells harboring latent HIV are “invisible” to the natural defenses of the immune system. The findings, which sugg...


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    SEEING STRESS WITH SUPERCOMPUTERS

    Dec 07, 2018

    Supercomputer simulations show that at the atomic level, material stress doesn't behave symmetrically. Molecular model of a crystal containing a dissociated dislocation, atoms are encoded with the atomic shear strain. Below, snapshots of simulation results showing the relative positions of atoms...


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    VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY INCREASES SCHIZOPHRENIA RISK

    Dec 07, 2018

    Some research suggests a link between low vitamin D levels and a person's risk of developing schizophrenia. New evidence indicates that this notion may be correct. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, schizophrenia is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Symptoms s...


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    SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE TAKEDA’S $59BN TAKEOVER OF SHIRE

    Dec 06, 2018

    Takeda’s $59 billion acquisition of Shire has been backed by shareholders from both companies, clearing the way for the deal to close early next year. Shareholder approval was the final hurdle to clear the deal, after a small but influential minority actively campaigned against it. Including m...


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    AFTER DELAYED IPO, MEREO GETS US LISTING VIA ONCOMED MERGER

    Dec 06, 2018

    UK biotech Mereo BioPharma is merging with Californian biotech OncoMed in an all-stock deal that swells its pipeline and gives it a potential licensing deal with Celgene. The offer is a premium of around a third on OncoMed’s closing share price ahead of the announcement, and values the US comp...


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    HOW PERCEPTIONS OF HIGH DRUG PRICES DO NOT NECESSARILY MATCH REALITY

    Dec 06, 2018

    The U.S. public apparently believes that drug prices are too high. At the same time, they seem largely opposed to government efforts to control health care costs, alternately supportive and non-supportive of efforts to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. There is no doubt t...


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    OBESITY UPS SURVIVAL IN HEART FAILURE, BUT THAT'S NO REASON TO PILE ON POUNDS

    Dec 06, 2018

    (HealthDay) Obese people with heart failure may live longer than those who are thinner especially if they are "metabolically healthy," a new study suggests. The study, of more than 3,500 heart failure patients, is the latest to look into the so-called "obesity paradox." The term ...


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    UCB, ROCHE, AND IQVIA TAKE LEAD IN UK LIFE SCIENCES INVESTMENT

    Dec 05, 2018

    Pharma giant UCB is to invest around £1 billion in the UK as part of a second life sciences sector deal with the UK government, with industry names such as Roche and IQVIA also committing to projects. The deals are part of the government’s second Life Sciences Sector Deal, with 10 compan...


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    NOVARTIS TAKES XOLAIR FOLLOW-UP INTO PHASE III HIVES TRIAL

    Dec 05, 2018

    Novartis says it intends to move a drug for chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU), a severe form of hives, into a phase III programme on the strength of a mid-stage study. The new drug – called ligelizumab (QGE031) – is being positioned as an improved follow-up to the Swiss company’s...


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    OPEN HEALTH MERGES WITH MED COMMS SERVICES PROVIDER PELOTON

    Dec 05, 2018

    UK-based Open Health Communications has merged with Peloton Advantage to create a global healthcare communications and market access group. The combined company will continue under the Open Health brand and be led by Open’s CEO David Rowley, with an executive team of Open Health co-founder San...


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    NEW DRUG TARGET DISCOVERED FOR POTENTIAL BLOOD PRESSURE TREATMENT

    Dec 05, 2018

    Scientists have identified a key player in blood pressure regulation and have shown that switching it off reduces blood pressure in mice, according to new research in eLife. Their study ends much uncertainty about the contribution this molecule makes to high blood pressure and could lead to the deve...


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    GENES LINKED TO DEMENTIA IDENTIFIED

    Dec 04, 2018

    A UCLA-led research team has identified genetic processes involved in the neurodegeneration that occurs in dementia – an important step on the path toward developing therapies that could slow or halt the course of the disease. The researchers discovered two major groups of genes involved in mu...


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    URINE TEST TO IMPROVE BLADDER CANCER DETECTION

    Dec 04, 2018

    A research team led by Tufts University engineers has developed a non-invasive method for detecting bladder cancer that might make screening easier and more accurate than current invasive clinical tests involving visual inspection of the bladder. In the first successful use of atomic force microscop...


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    SEMA4, MOUNT SINAI, SANOFI ANNOUNCE LAUNCH OF NEW COLLABORATIVE ASTHMA STUDY

    Dec 04, 2018

    Sema4, a patient-centered predictive health company, and the Mount Sinai Health System today announced the launch of a five-year collaborative study with Sanofi designed to provide new insights into the biological mechanisms and other factors implicated in asthma. The project will follow nearly 1,20...


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    ASURAGEN LAUNCHES ASSAY TO HELP DIAGNOSE STEINERT’S DISEASE

    Dec 04, 2018

    Asuragen, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company delivering easy-to-use products for complex testing in genetics and oncology, today announced the CE marking and launch of the AmplideX DM1 Dx Kit, which simplifies the analysis of repeat expansions within the DMPK gene and is intended to aid in the di...


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    CELGENE SCORES AT ASH18 WITH DOUBLE LUSPATERCEPT DATA

    Dec 03, 2018

    A pair of clinical trial wins for Celgene’s luspatercept at the American Society of Haematology (ASH) meeting have set up a filing for the new drug in mid-2019. The MEDALIST trial in second-line myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and BELIEVE study in transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT) both me...


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    REGENERON RECORDS 80% COMPLETE RESPONSE RATE IN LYMPHOMA TRIAL

    Dec 03, 2018

    Regeneron’s CD20xCD3 bispecific antibody has achieved an 80% complete response rate in a small trial of patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma. The strong early signs of efficacy led Regeneron to target a 2019 start date for a potentially registrational phase 2 study. REGN197...


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    ASH18: J&J SHELLS OUT $500M TO SEW UP ARGENYX'S BLOOD CANCER HOPEFUL CUSATUZUMAB

    Dec 03, 2018

    As the biggest and brightest in the blood cancer world came together for the ASH conference this weekend, European biotech Argenx was busy making a big biobucks deal. It has teamed up with Cilag, a subsidiary of Janssen, to work on the company’s cusatuzumab. The team is testing the candidate, ...


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    STENTRODE DEVELOPED FOR BRAIN TREATMENTS WITHOUT MAJOR SURGERY

    Dec 03, 2018

    Australian researchers have developed a tiny device that electrically stimulates the brain and could one day be used to treat conditions such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease without invasive surgery. They have shown for the first time that electrical stimulation can be delivered into the bra...


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    VIACYTE BAGS $80M TO TRIAL DIABETES STEM CELL THERAPIES

    Nov 29, 2018

    ViaCyte has raised $80 million to continue clinical development of its cell therapy treatments for diabetes. The series D positions ViaCyte to generate phase 1/2 data on one candidate while working to get another back into the clinic. San Diego-based ViaCyte is at the forefront of efforts to develop...


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    ASTELLAS’ XOSPATA WINS FDA NOD IN AML, WITH DAIICHI COMPETITION LOOMING

    Nov 29, 2018

    On an acute myeloid leukemia (AML) roll, the FDA has green-lighted Astellas’ Xospata, also known as gilteritinib. For Astellas, it marks the first step toward challenging Novartis’ Rydapt and likely just a slim head start against Daiichi Sankyo. Xospata’s nod makes it the first mon...


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    PHILADELPHIA LOOKS TO CRACK DOWN ON PHARMA REPS WITH REGISTRATION, GIFT BANNING

    Nov 29, 2018

    It may soon be tougher to be a pharma sales rep in Philadelphia. Its city council will hold a public hearing Friday on a proposed bill (PDF) to regulate pharma manufacturer reps, with measures including registering with the city and prohibiting any gifts to healthcare providers and office staff. The...


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    THE TOP 3 HOUSE DEMOCRAT LEADERS HAVE POCKETED MILLIONS FROM PHARMA

    Nov 29, 2018

    Three of the lawmakers who will lead the House next year as Congress focuses on skyrocketing drug costs are among the biggest recipients of campaign contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, a new KHN analysis shows. On Wednesday, House Democrats selected Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland to serve ...


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    HEALIOS BEGINS TRIALS OF MENTAL HEALTH APP FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

    Nov 28, 2018

    Digital health firm Healios is beginning clinical trials of ThinkNinja, an app designed to help children with mental health problems. ThinkNinja is aimed at helping young people aged 11 to 17 years old with their mental health, emotional well-being, and resilience, and supports symptoms of anxiety a...


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    BAYER/LOXO DRUG APPROVED IN CANCERS WITH CERTAIN MUTATION

    Nov 28, 2018

    The FDA has approved Bayer and Loxo’s Vitravki (larotrectinib) for adults and children whose cancers have a specific genetic feature, or biomarker. This is only the second time the agency has approved a cancer treatment on the basis of its efficacy against a specific biomarker, rather than the...


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    'MINI-PLACENTAS' COULD PROVIDE A MODEL FOR EARLY PREGNANCY

    Nov 28, 2018

    Researchers say that new 'mini-placentas'—a cellular model of the early stages of the placenta—could provide a window into early pregnancy and help transform our understanding of reproductive disorders. Details of this new research are published today in the journal Nature. Many ...


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    ANTIBIOTIC COULD PROTECT AGAINST NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DURING AGING

    Nov 28, 2018

    An antibiotic, minocycline, can increase the lifespan of roundworms by preventing the build-up of proteins during aging, a study in the open-access journal eLife reports. Protein aggregation causes several progressive age-related brain diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Alzheimer'...


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    NHS SAVING £300M WITH HUMIRA BIOSIMILAR DEAL

    Nov 27, 2018

    The NHS is to save £300 million after striking deals with several manufacturers of low cost biosimilars of AbbVie’s Humira inflammatory diseases drug. Before the deal, NHS England spent more on Humira (adalimumab) than any other drug, and the deal, which also included a cut-price bid fro...


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    SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS UNVEILS MAGNETOM ALTEA 1.5 TESLA MRI SCANNER

    Nov 27, 2018

    Siemens Healthineers has unveiled a new 1.5 Tesla MRI scanner, the MAGNETOM Altea, at the RSNA conference in Chicago. The device features a generous 70-centimeter bore that will fit some of the largest patients, as well as the company’s BioMatrix technology that helps to prepare for scans base...


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    LUNG DISEASE MAY INCREASE DEMENTIA RISK

    Nov 27, 2018

    Dementia refers to a series of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, where a person's memory and other cognitive abilities decline. A recent study may have found a new risk factor that might predispose people to dementia: lung disease. According to the study by researchers from th...


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    COPD AND ANXIETY: RESEARCHERS TEST PROMISING APPROACH

    Nov 27, 2018

    The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affects millions of people worldwide. Its main symptom is breathlessness, which can be distressing and causes many people with this lung condition to experience anxiety. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 3.17 million pe...


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    SLUGGISH BRAINWAVE ACTIVITY IN DEMENTIA PREDICTS SEVERITY OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

    Nov 26, 2018

    To turn back the clock on Alzheimer’s disease, many researchers are seeking ways to effectively diagnose the neurodegenerative disorder earlier. One potential way to do this is by tracking a person’s brainwave activity, which slows down in certain brain regions that are likely to be affe...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=21702170

    TYPE 2 DIABETES: HOW DO FRUCTOSE-SWEETENED DRINKS AFFECT RISK?

    Nov 26, 2018

    A new review of existing studies published in The BMJ finds that sugary drinks that contain fructose raise the risk of type 2 diabetes more than other fructose-containing foods. A range of recent studies has pointed out the potential health risks of sugary drinks. Studies have confirmed that there i...


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    MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE: APPLICATION IN BLOOD CANCERS

    Nov 26, 2018

    A diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) can mean a long road with many twists and turns as patients try to achieve long-term remission from this chronic, complex and progressive form of blood cancer. Living with CLL has meant co-existing with a disease often marked by a cycle of remissions...


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    ‘GENERATION Z’ HAPPY TO BE DIAGNOSED BY CHATBOTS

    Nov 26, 2018

    A survey involving young people from ‘Generation Z’ has revealed they want to see the NHS introduce digital solutions to help manage their care, with nearly two-thirds saying they would be comfortable with a chatbot giving them a diagnosis. The new research from Roche UK showed 82% of th...


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    ITALY FREE TO REIMBURSE OFF-LABEL AVASTIN, RULES EU COURT

    Nov 23, 2018

    Novartis and Roche’s long-running battle to try to prevent off-label prescribing of Roche’s Avastin in place of their approved Lucentis product for the eye disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has been dealt a blow by the European Court of Justice. Four years ago, Italy’s...


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    CELLULAR MECHANOSENSING KEY FOR 3D FORMATION

    Nov 23, 2018

    If you want to build an organ, such as for transplant, you need to think in 3D. Using stem cells, scientists for some time have been able to grow parts of organs in the lab, but that is a far cry from constructing an actual, fully-formed, functioning, three-dimensional organ. For students of regener...


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    THE SURPRISING CULPRIT FOR HIV PERSISTENCE DURING THERAPY

    Nov 23, 2018

    Reducing the population size of this "reservoir" of infected cells represents the largest challenge for the cure of HIV. Based on these results, study authors believe reducing cellular proliferation could help to deplete the reservoir and potentially lead to a functional cure. Led by Drs. ...


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    BREAST CANCERS ENHANCE THEIR GROWTH BY RECRUITING CELLS FROM BONE MARROW

    Nov 23, 2018

    Researchers in Israel have discovered that breast tumors can boost their growth by recruiting stromal cells originally formed in the bone marrow. The study, which will be published November 23 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, reveals that the recruitment of bone marrow-derived fibroblasts lo...


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    THOUSANDS TO BENEFIT AS NHS FUNDS KEYTRUDA LUNG CANCER COMBO

    Nov 22, 2018

    NICE has said MSD’s cancer immunotherapy, Keytruda, should receive interim funding on the NHS in certain patients with untreated lung cancer, in combination with chemotherapy. In the first draft guidance, NICE said Keytruda (pembrolizumab) will be reimbursed by the Cancer Drugs Fund, with peme...


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    FDA APPROVES SOBI’S GAMIFANT FOR RARE, FATAL CHILDHOOD DISEASE

    Nov 22, 2018

    The FDA has approved Sobi’s Gamifant, a treatment for primary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). The extremely rare condition usually manifests within the first year of life, progresses quickly and is usually fatal, with a median survival of fewer than two months. HLH is caused by hyper...


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    SONS OF FATHERS WHO SMOKE HAVE 51% LOWER SPERM COUNT

    Nov 22, 2018

    Studies have repeatedly linked maternal smoking during pregnancy with reduced sperm counts in male offspring. Now a research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered that, independently of nicotine exposure from the mother, men whose fathers smoked at the time of pregnancy had half as many s...


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    CEO OF UK DRUGS REGULATOR QUITS, AS BREXIT NEARS

    Nov 21, 2018

    The CEO of the UK’s medicine regulator has announced he will leave his post in September next year. With just months to go before the Brexit deadline, Dr. Ian Hudson, who has worked at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for 17 years, said he was stepping down for &l...


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    MACHINE LEARNING MODELS HELP PREDICT WHICH PATIENTS NEED A&E

    Nov 21, 2018

    Machine learning a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to enable computer systems to ‘learn’ from data can be used to analyze electronic health records and predict the risk of emergency hospital admissions, a new study from The George Institute for Global He...


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    TAKEDA MUST SELL GASTRO DRUG TO MERGE WITH SHIRE – EU REGULATORS

    Nov 21, 2018

    European regulators have officially rubber-stamped Takeda’s $62 billion takeovers of Shire, although the merged company will have to sell off a pipeline clinical trial drug for inflammatory bowel disease. Takeda already markets Entyvio (vedolizumab) and EU regulators are concerned that the mer...


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    HOW ASPIRIN AND OMEGA-3 MAY REDUCE CANCER RISK

    Nov 20, 2018

    Acetylsalicylic acid, best known as aspirin, and omega-3 fatty acids support various aspects of health, and scientists continue to uncover how these substances work. One recent study suggests that both could have an impact on colon cancer risk. The National Cancer Institute estimates that doctors wi...


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    MERCK AND PFIZER CHALK UP ANOTHER FAIL FOR BAVENCIO

    Nov 20, 2018

    Merck KGaA and Pfizer’s late entrant to the checkpoint inhibitor category has failed a phase III trial in ovarian cancer, denting their hopes of building momentum for the product. The JAVELIN Ovarian 200 study was testing Bavencio (avelumab) alone or in combination with chemotherapy (pegylated...


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    NEJM PAPER BUOYS AIMMUNE’S PEANUT ALLERGY DRUG PROSPECTS

    Nov 19, 2018

    Results from Aimmune’s phase 3 trial of oral immunotherapy AR101 for peanut allergy have been published and bode well for the program’s planned FDA filing next month. The PALISADE study shows that children who were classed as highly allergic to peanuts were able to tolerate a much higher...


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    INFLAZOME RAISES €40M TO GET NLRP3 DRUG INTO HUMANS

    Nov 19, 2018

    Inflazome has raised €40 million ($46 million). The Forbion-led series B tees up Inflazome to trial its NLRP3 inflammasome inhibitors in several inflammatory diseases. Irish-British biotech Inflazome is working on a pipeline of small molecules designed to block signals that lead to unwanted inf...


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    NOVARTIS’ CAR-T CANCER DRUG AVAILABLE ON NHS TO YOUNG PEOPLE

    Nov 16, 2018

    Novartis’ cutting-edge CAR-T therapy Kymriah has officially become available on the NHS for young people with blood cancer. The chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) drug, also known as tisagenlecleucel, is available for young people with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic le...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=21372137

    BLUEPRINT EYES QUICK FILING FOR GIST DRUG AVAPRITINIB

    Nov 16, 2018

    Blueprint Medicines has new data for its lead cancer drug avapritinib in gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) that set it on course for regulatory filings – and a close race to market with rival Deciphera. Avapritinib is an oral inhibitor of KIT and PDGFRA kinases and is being developed for...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=21382138

    DEFINED HEALTH BECOMES CELLO HEALTH BIOCONSULTING

    Nov 15, 2018

    Cello’s US health consulting business Defined Health has been rebranded as Cello Health BioConsulting, following its acquisition by the group last year. Cello said the move was prompted by industry evolution and outlined how even the most scientifically-driven biotech companies need to think c...


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    LITMUS HEALTH PUBLISHES CENSUS OF WEARABLE DEVICES FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH

    Nov 15, 2018

    Real-world data firm Litmus Health has published its first census of wearable devices for clinical research, profiling the body and wrist-worn hardware offerings from over 190 brands and manufacturers. The company recommends its 15 top devices based on a rubric scoring the transparency of their data...


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    AI DEVICE COULD BE CHEAPER AND MORE ACCURATE THAN SMEAR TESTS

    Nov 14, 2018

    UK startup Lancor Scientific has secured funding to launch a medical device that aims to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect cervical cancer with 90% accuracy and at a lower cost than currently available tests. Conventional smear tests have an accuracy of 60%-70%, but the company hopes its Tu...


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    ATLANTIC NETS DE NOVO CLEARANCE FOR PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE STIMULATOR FOR URINARY INCONTINENCE

    Nov 14, 2018

    The FDA granted a de novo clearance to Atlantic Therapeutics’ electrical muscle stimulator for women, for treating stress urinary (SUI) incontinence. The externally worn Innovo device, the first transcutaneous stimulation device cleared by the FDA for incontinence, according to the company, ca...


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    EYEING NOVARTIS DEAL, AKCEA TRUMPETS LIPOPROTEIN DRUG DATA

    Nov 14, 2018

    Ionis affiliate Akcea Pharma has new data for its antisense drug for elevated lipoprotein levels in patients with cardiovascular disease that it hopes will entice Novartis into a licensing deal. The phase II results – reported at the American Heart Association meeting – show that AKCEA-A...


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    GOOGLE HIRES GEISINGER CEO AS NEW HEALTH STRATEGY LEADER

    Nov 13, 2018

    Google has hired Geisinger Health CEO David Feinberg to provide strategic leadership as the tech giant moves into the health sector. In a statement, the Pennsylvania-based health firm Geisinger said Feinberg is leaving on 3 January, with chief medical officer Jaewon Ryu taking over as interim presid...


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    NANONEEDLE SKIN PATCH TO INJECT DRUGS INTO CELLS

    Nov 13, 2018

    Delivering drugs directly into skin cells using microscopic nanoneedles may allow for highly effective treatment of skin conditions without injuring the cells that are treated. Silicon nanoneedles have been developed in the past that can do such a trick, but they’re stiff and can be painful, i...


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    ROCHE’S TECENTRIQ GETS FAST REVIEW IN TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER

    Nov 13, 2018

    The FDA has granted a fast review for Roche/Genentech’s Tecentriq in combination with Celgene’s Abraxane for certain patients with tough-to-treat ‘triple negative’ breast cancer. The regulator has granted the immunotherapy Tecentriq (atezolizumab) and Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel...


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    CARDIVA’S VASCULAR CLOSURE STUDY SHOWS REDUCTIONS IN BED REST, OPIOID USAGE FOLLOWING ABLATION PROCEDURES

    Nov 12, 2018

    A clinical study by Cardiva Medical evaluating its bioabsorbable vascular closure system for electrophysiology procedures met all of its primary and secondary endpoints compared to manual compression, the current standard of care. The company’ s Vascade MVP system—designed for multi-acce...


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    T CELL’S ‘SUICIDE’ HANDSHAKE COULD FEND OFF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

    Nov 12, 2018

    Autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis occur when immune cells become overactive and attack healthy tissues in the body. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a process the body uses to eliminate the T cells that cause autoimmune disorders&m...


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    HARPOON RAISES $70M TO TRIAL SOLID TUMOR T-CELL ENGAGERS

    Nov 12, 2018

    Harpoon Therapeutics has raised $70 million to advance its pipeline of T-cell engagers. The series C sets Harpoon up to move candidates targeting mesothelin and BCMA into human testing next year. South San Francisco-based Harpoon set up shop to create T-cell engagers capable of treating solid tumors...

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    VERTEX WINS EUROPEAN APPROVAL FOR NEW CYSTIC FIBROSIS COMBINATION

    Nov 02, 2018

    European regulators have approved Vertex’s new cystic fibrosis (CF) combination treatment Symkevi. The European Commission’s greenlight for Symkevi (tezacaftor/ivacaftor) will allow it to be used in combination with Kalydeco (ivacaftor) for patients aged 12-plus. In doing so it will offe...


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    SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS REVEALS HOW MELANOMA CELLS RESIST IMMUNOTHERAPY

    Nov 02, 2018

    Unleashing the immune system to fight tumors—an approach enabled by immunotherapy—has led to remarkable outcomes in some cancer patients, but in many more, cancer cells evade the treatment and continue to spread. Now, a team led by researchers from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and ...


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    GENE PPM1D GIVES STEM CELLS A 'WINNING BOOST' AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY

    Nov 02, 2018

    Chemotherapy has been associated with an increased risk of leukemia years after the treatment, but what leads to that association is not clear. In this study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, a team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center combined clinic...

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    ABBVIE, ROCHE EYE FIRST-LINE USE OF VENCLEXTA IN LEUKAEMIA

    Nov 01, 2018

    AbbVie and Roche’s Venclexta has hit the mark in a combination trial that could help it move into the treatment-naive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) arena. Top-line results from the CLL14 study showed that giving Venclexta (venetoclax) alongside Roche’s Gazyva (obinutuzumab) improved...


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    UK OPENS DOORS TO CANNABIS-BASED THERAPIES VIA NHS

    Nov 01, 2018

    Medical cannabis is available to certain patients across the UK for the first time from today. The groundbreaking decision was made so that people suffering from illnesses where other medicines have failed, have a way to treat their symptoms. It follows a campaign mounted in June after two boys with...


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    BAXTER’S PRIXMAX RENAL REPLACEMENT AND ORGAN SUPPORT SYSTEM CLEARED IN EUROPE

    Oct 31, 2018

    Baxter won European CE mark approval to bring to the continent its PrisMax continuous renal replacement and organ support therapy system, as well as the TherMax blood warmer. The PrixMax is based on the company’s Prismaflex system and is designed to make extracorporeal simpler, faster, and mor...


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    APPENDIX IDENTIFIED AS A POTENTIAL STARTING POINT FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

    Oct 31, 2018

    Removing the appendix early in life reduces the risk of developing Parkinson's disease by 19 to 25 percent, according to the largest and most comprehensive study of its kind, published today in Science Translational Medicine. The findings also solidify the role of the gut and immune system in th...


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    INCREASE COLLABORATION TO WIDEN ACCESS TO DMD DRUGS, TRIALS AND CARE

    Oct 31, 2018

    When it comes to fighting a rare disease like Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), it’s a matter of strength in numbers. Three Duchenne experts talk to us about how international collaboration between patients, pharma, clinicians and regulators could accelerate access to drugs, trials, and quali...


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    NOVEL TECHNIQUE CAN POTENTIALLY IMPROVE SUCCESS OF OVARIAN CANCER TREATMENT, STUDY REVEALS

    Oct 30, 2018

    Novel Technique Can Potentially Improve Success of Ovarian Cancer Treatment, Study Reveals Instead of destroying a tumor's blood supply, a first-ever University of Guelph study has proven that opening up the vessels is potentially more effective when it comes to fighting ovarian cancer. This is ...


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    AUGMENTED REALITY PRE-SURGERY TECH APPROVED BY US REGULATOR

    Oct 30, 2018

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a pre-surgery augmented reality imaging system that will allow doctors to see inside patients before a surgical procedure. Tech firm Novarad’s OpenSight Augmented Reality System was given the green light by the US regulator, who granted 51...


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    LEO PHARMA TEAMS UP WITH WEARIFI FOR DERMATOLOGY RESEARCH WEARABLE

    Oct 29, 2018

    LEO Pharma is developing a wearable device based on miniature sensors and plans to assess its clinical potential in dermatology drug development. The pharmaceutical company’s Boston-based R&D innovation unit, the LEO Science & Tech Hub, will work on the device with Illinois’ Nort...


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    BIOLOGISTS DISCOVER SOURCE FOR BOOSTING TUMOR CELL DRUG SENSITIVITY

    Oct 29, 2018

    DNA-damaging agents, or "DDAs," make up the most widely used group of cancer drugs. Yet their therapeutic success has been curtailed by drug resistance either present in cancer cells from the disease onset or arising during treatment. Now, biologists at the University of California San Die...


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    NOVIOSENSE ANNOUNCES POSITIVE CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS OF TEAR GLUCOSE MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGY

    Oct 25, 2018

    NovioSense has demonstrated the measurement of tear glucose in diabetic patients and a close correlation to blood glucose with clinically relevant accuracy. A second, 24-patient study, to validate the use of the new glucose sensor in type 1 diabetic patients is already commencing. NovioSense BV, a c...


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    OPTOACOUSTIC GUIDEWIRE SYSTEM FOR BREAST CANCER LOCALIZATION

    Oct 25, 2018

    Breast lumpectomy for breast CA is an imprecise procedure that too often results in cancerous tissue being left behind. About a quarter of patients have to come back and go through the surgery yet again. This is in large part due to the fact that guidewires are the standard way to point to the locat...


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    BAYER PLANS FILINGS FOR PROSTATE CANCER DRUG DAROLUTAMIDE

    Oct 24, 2018

    Bayer is planning regulatory filings of darolutamide in prostate cancer following phase III trial results showing it helped prevent the disease from spreading, in a niche where Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson have already gained a foothold. The German pharma developed darolutamide in partnership wi...


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    STUDY FINDS TALLER PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO GET CERTAIN CANCERS DUE TO CELL NUMBERS

    Oct 24, 2018

    A researcher at the University of California's Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology has found evidence that taller people are more prone to getting cancer due to their larger number of cells. In his paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Leonard Nunney describe...


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    NEW COMBINATION TREATMENT FLIPS THE SWITCH ON MELANOMA CELLS

    Oct 23, 2018

    Think of the protein BH3 like a finger that turns off a cancer cell survival switch. The problem is that most cancer cells have found ways to remove this "finger commonly, by breaking the action of a gene called p53 that puts the BH3 finger in motion. Now think of Bcl-2 as the switch itself. Wh...


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    WEEK 34 OF PREGNANCY REDUCES BREAST CANCER RISK: STUDY

    Oct 23, 2018

    Women's bodies undergo a "striking" change during a specific week of pregnancy that can significantly reduce their risk of developing breast cancer later in life, scientists said Tuesday. Previous research has highlighted how women under the age of 30 can reduce their risk of contracti...


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    SANGAMO VET GARY LEE JOINS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY OUTFIT SENTI AS CSO

    Oct 23, 2018

    Gary Lee, Ph.D.a 13-year veteran of Sangamo Therapeutics, has joined Senti Biosciences as its new chief scientific officer. In his new role, Lee will head up the expansion of Senti’s synthetic biology platform and oversee the advancement of oncology cell therapy programs into the clinic. Durin...


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    ASTRAZENECA AND IONIS TARGET DIABETES WITH ANTISENSE APPROACH TO REGENERATING PANCREATIC CELLS

    Oct 22, 2018

    Type 2 diabetes is caused by a progressive loss of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, and current remedies can’t do much beyond just relieving symptoms. Now AstraZeneca and Ionis are working together to investigate a new way to target beta cells with antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs...


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    NEW AT-HOME FETAL HEART RATE MONITOR WITH CLINICAL ACCURACY

    Oct 22, 2018

    These days patients that are still in the womb have their heart rates measured on a regular basis to spot conditions such as fetal bradycardia or tachycardia or decreased variability. This is typically done in a hospital using specialty equipment that is too expensive for use in the home. Now resear...

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    NOVARTIS WANTS TO BLAZE A TRAIL IN BREAST CANCER WITH PIK3 DRUG

    Oct 22, 2018

    Novartis is preparing to file its PIK3 drug combination for a certain group of breast cancer patients, after late stage trial results showed its alpelisib combination stopped the disease progressing for twice as long as standard therapy, with “manageable” side effects. Drugs from this cl...


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    GILEAD, AELIX ALLY TO TRIAL HIV-SUPPRESSING COMBINATION

    Oct 18, 2018

    Gilead has teamed up with Aelix Therapeutics to trial a combination designed to free people with HIV from the need to take antiretroviral drugs. The planned clinical trial will test Gilead’s TLR7 agonist in combination with Aelix’s T-cell vaccine. Gilead began testing the TLR7 agonist, v...


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    IMPROVING CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY BY CONTROLLING RNA EXPRESSION

    Oct 18, 2018

    Gene therapy has become one of the hottest areas of biotech research. Some gene therapies, like Spark Therapeutics’ eye drug Luxturna, deliver healthy genes to replace mutated ones, while others, such as Alnylam Pharmaceuticals’ RNA interference therapy Onpattro, work by silencing diseas...


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    PFIZER’S TALZENNA PARP BREAST CANCER DRUG APPROVED IN US

    Oct 17, 2018

    The US drug regulator has approved Pfizer’s breast cancer medicine Talzenna (talazoparib) for patients with a certain mutation. The drug was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCAm), HER2‑negativ...


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    MEDICAL MANAGEMENT OF OPIOID-INDUCED CONSTIPATION DIFFERS FROM OTHER FORMS OF CONDITION

    Oct 17, 2018

    Traditional laxatives are recommended as first-line agents to treat patients with a confirmed diagnosis of opioid-induced constipation (OIC), according to a new guideline from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). If an adequate trial of laxatives results in suboptimal symptom control,...


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    NEW TEST RAPIDLY IDENTIFIES ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT SUPERBUGS

    Oct 16, 2018

    When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to fight them. A simple and inexpensive new test developed by UC Berkeley researchers can diagnose patients with antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteri...

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    MICROLAPAROSCOPIC ROBOTIC SURGERIES NOW CLEARED ON TRANSENTERIX SENHANCE SYSTEM

    Oct 16, 2018

    TransEnterix, the maker of the Senhance robotic surgical system, won FDA clearance for its new 3-millimeter line of instruments, as well as some more 5 mm instruments. At only 3 mm in diameter, the new instruments make it possible to use the Senhance system for micro-laparoscopic surgeries with inci...

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    ANTIDEPRESSANTS COULD STAVE OFF DEMENTIA

    Oct 15, 2018

    People with a diagnosis of dementia can also face depression. For this reason, they may end up taking antidepressant drugs. Now, a study has found that these drugs may be able to treat not just depression, but dementia itself. According to data cited by the Alzheimer's Association, 1 in 10 ...

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    ASPIRIN MAY REDUCE LIVER CANCER RISK

    Oct 15, 2018

    Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that regular aspirin use can reduce the risk of developing liver cancer. The findings — which appear in JAMA Oncology — support the results of prior studies on the same topic. Data from this report show that taking aspirin on a reg...


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    CANCER STEM CELLS USE 'NORMAL' GENES IN ABNORMAL WAYS

    Oct 12, 2018

    CDK1 is a "normal" protein its presence drives cells through the cycle of replication. And MHC Class I molecules are "normal" as well they present bits of proteins on the surfaces of cells for examination by the immune system. But a University of Colorado Cancer Center study publ...


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    NUMBER OF UK CLINICAL TRIALS IN DECLINE SINCE BREXIT VOTE

    Oct 12, 2018

    Ongoing uncertainty and concern about Brexit have already cut the number of clinical trials carried out in the UK. The number of drug trials started in Britain in 2017 was a staggering 25% lower than the average for 2009-2016. A Fitch analysis showed that 597 trials were initiated in Britain in 2017...

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    BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT STIMULATES INJURED NERVES TO SPEED UP HEALING

    Oct 11, 2018

    Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine and Northwestern University created an implant to deliver electric impulses to damaged nerves, helping to heal them, and that eventually biodegrades and leaves the body. It’s about the size of a U.S. quarter coin and operates for about two...


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    NEUROCRINE, JNANA TEAM UP TO DISCOVER CNS DRUGS

    Oct 11, 2018

    Neurocrine Biosciences has teamed up with Jnana Therapeutics to develop drugs that target solute carrier (SLC) metabolite transporters. The collaboration gives Neurocrine a potential source of small molecules to treat disorders of the central nervous system. SLCs are a 400-strong family of membrane ...


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    ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUG COULD TREAT AGGRESSIVE BREAST CANCER

    Oct 09, 2018

    A commonly-used anti-psychotic drug could also be effective against triple negative breast cancer, the form of the disease that is most difficult to treat, new research has found. The study, led by the University of Bradford in the UK, also showed that the drug, Pimozide, has the potential to treat ...


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    GENE THERAPY BREAKTHROUGH IN TREATING RARE FORM OF BLINDNESS

    Oct 09, 2018

    Positive results of the world's first gene therapy trial for a genetic cause of blindness known as choroideremia have been reported in Nature Medicine. The trial involved 14 patients receiving a single injection into the back of the eye of a virus containing the missing gene and began in 2011 at...


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    SCIENTISTS CREATE NEW MAP OF BRAIN REGION LINKED TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

    Oct 08, 2018

    Curing some of the most vexing diseases first requires navigating the world's most complex structure—the human brain. So, USC scientists have created the most detailed atlas yet of the brain's memory bank. Cartographers of the cranium, a USC research team has illustrated the internal c...


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    NERVE DAMAGE: USING ELECTRONIC IMPLANTS TO HASTEN HEALING

    Oct 08, 2018

    An implantable electronic device that can heal injured peripheral nerves by stimulating them with electric pulses before the body biodegrades and absorbs it has shown successful results in preliminary tests. A study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and Northwestern U...


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    SANDOZ ENCOURAGES DIGITAL HEALTH INNOVATION IN SECOND COMPETITION

    Oct 05, 2018

    Sandoz has announced a second competition inviting entrepreneurs and innovators in digital health to submit ideas that could complement or even disrupt established approaches to access to healthcare. The competition, known as the Sandoz Healthcare Access-Challenge (HACk) opened this week and entries...


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    DNA SEQUENCING AND PATIENT DATA USED TO HALT INFECTION OUTBREAK

    Oct 05, 2018

    Clinical and research teams at Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust, using infection prevention and control best practice, whole genome sequencing, and electronic patient data, have halted an outbreak of a potentially deadly fungal pathogen after detecting that multi-use patient eq...


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    PERSONALIZING CROHN’S DISEASE THERAPIES WITH MICRORNA AS INDICATOR

    Oct 04, 2018

    Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that involves lifelong management. Because disease development and potential complications vary among patients, it’s hard for physicians to determine a prognosis for each patient or to devise the best management plan accordingly. But a Uni...


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    SAREPTA SEES MUSCLE FUNCTION GAINS WITH DMD GENE THERAPY

    Oct 04, 2018

    Sarepta’s case for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy is getting stronger, with early data now linking its effects on a critical protein with improved muscle function. An earlier readout from the phase 1/2 trial in June from three patients treated with the gene therapy showed t...


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    GOLD NANOPARTICLES WITH ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ADD-ON HELP INJURED MUSCLES HEAL RAPIDLY

    Oct 02, 2018

    Inflammation in the body is an important mechanism that helps to heal. But, as is well known, it can also create problems by aggravating injuries and intensifying various medical conditions. Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have been working on getting a handle on the process ...

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    POWERFUL NEW X-RAY LASER IMAGES BIOMOLECULES LIKE NEVER BEFORE

    Oct 02, 2018

    At the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a research center of the Helmholtz Association in Germany, a team of scientists working within the newly built European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, have unveiled the structure of an enzyme involved in antibiotic resistance. While the finding is...

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    SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY BUILDS MULTICOLOUR 3D IMAGES FROM 2D

    Oct 01, 2018

    Super-resolution microscopy is a method that can ‘see’ beyond the limits of light. By exploiting fluorescence, super-resolution microscopy allows scientists to observe cells and their interior structures and organelles. The interior structures of cells are made up of multiple proteins, a...

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    INEXPENSIVE TB TEST HOLDS PROMISE FOR LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES

    Oct 01, 2018

    A low-cost, easy-to-replicate test for tuberculosis might help developing nations better identify and treat the infectious and sometimes deadly disease, new research suggests. A study of the $2 test in rural Malawi in southeastern Africa found that it was reliable and could be easily employed in are...


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    ‘STAR TREK’ PROTEIN COULD BE KEY TO REPURPOSING EGFR LUNG CANCER DRUGS IN LEUKEMIA

    Sep 27, 2018

    EGFR inhibitors, which block a key signaling pathway in solid tumor growth, are best known as treatments for lung cancer. But a new study led by scientists at the University of Liverpool found that some of them could potentially be used against blood cancers, too.
    Their effectiveness in blood...


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    ALEXION PREPARES FILINGS FOR NEW RARE DISEASE USE FOR SOLIRIS

    Sep 27, 2018

    Alexion is preparing filings in major markets for its rare disease drug Soliris in a new indication after a positive readout in a rare neurological disease. The Boston biotech enjoys blockbuster revenues thanks to Soliris, which is already approved in three other rare diseases. Approved since 2007 i...


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    ZIKA AND YELLOW FEVER—VACCINES WITHOUT EGGS

    Sep 26, 2018

    A team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg is developing methods with which viruses for vaccines can be replicated in significantly higher concentrations than before. The researchers produce the pathogens in cell cultures in small b...


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    MICROBIAL DARK MATTER DOMINATES EARTH'S ENVIRONMENTS

    Sep 26, 2018

    Uncultured microbes those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture could be dominating nearly all the environments on Earth except for the human body, according to a new study published in systems. The research was led by Karen Lloyd, asso...

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    DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK IDENTIFIES LUNG CANCER TYPES FROM BIOPSY SLICES

    Sep 24, 2018

    Many of us think of artificial intelligence (AI) as computers mimicking humans in thinking and behavior. Thankfully, the reality is still very different and AI is more of an evolving tool that can tackle narrow tasks that humans are otherwise not good enough at. One of those tasks is looking at comp...


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    SPINAL CORD EPIDURAL STIMULATION LETS PARALYZED WALK AGAIN

    Sep 24, 2018

    While paralysis is common following a serious spinal injury, it seems that many patients may be treated with a new therapy that has already proven to restore walking and standing in a few study volunteers. Researchers at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, reporting in New England Journal of M...

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    PEROVSKITE SEMICONDUCTORS SEEING RIGHT THROUGH NEXT GENERATION X-RAY DETECTORS

    Sep 21, 2018

    From observing celestial objects to medical imaging, the sensitive detection of X-rays plays a central role in countless applications. However, the methods used to detect them have undergone an interesting evolution of their own.
    X-ray detector designs vary in shape, function and ultimately p...

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    EARLY WARNING SIGN OF PSYCHOSIS DETECTED

    Sep 21, 2018

    Brains of people at risk of psychosis exhibit a pattern that can help predict whether they will go on to develop full-fledged schizophrenia, a new Yale-led study shows. The findings could help doctors begin early intervention therapies for those most likely to develop the disabling disorder.
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    STUDY IDENTIFIES STEM CELL THAT GIVES RISE TO NEW BONE AND CARTILAGE IN HUMANS

    Sep 20, 2018

    A decade-long effort led by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists has been rewarded with the identification of the human skeletal stem cell. The cell, which can be isolated from human bone or generated from specialized cells in fat, gives rise to progenitor cells that can make new bone, ...

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    EXICURE PLANS CHECKPOINT COMBO AFTER TLR9 DRUG CLEARS EARLY TEST

    Sep 20, 2018

    Exicure is set to move toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonist AST-008 into a phase 1b/2 trial after getting a look at data from healthy volunteers. The first-in-human clinical trial suggested that AST-008 is safe, tolerable and boosts cytokine levels.
    AST-008, Exicure’s lead asset, is base...


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    FIRST GUT BACTERIA MAY HAVE LASTING EFFECT ON ABILITY TO FIGHT CHRONIC DISEASES

    Sep 18, 2018

    New research showing that the first bacteria introduced into the gut have a lasting impact may one day allow scientists to adjust microbiomes the one-of-a-kind microbial communities that live in our gastrointestinal tracts to help ward off serious chronic diseases. Findings by U of A microbial ecolo...


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    SCIENTISTS SEE AT-HOME BIOHACKING AS FUTURE OF MEDICINE

    Sep 17, 2018

    The cost and regulatory environment in which drugs are currently created lead to a number of difficulties for patients, providers, and drug manufacturers. Clearances and approvals, patents, and terms of use agreements, among other things, have forced some patients to turn to “biohacking”...

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    STUDY OF ONE MILLION PEOPLE LEADS TO WORLD'S BIGGEST ADVANCE IN BLOOD PRESSURE GENETICS

    Sep 17, 2018

    Over 500 new gene regions that influence people's blood pressure have been discovered in the largest global genetic study of blood pressure to date, led by the Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London. Involving more than one million participants, the results more than triple ...

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    FDA APPROVES TEVA’S HIGHER-DOSE OPIOID DEPENDENCE THERAPY

    Sep 10, 2018

    US regulators have approved Teva’s under-the-tongue film Cassipa for maintenance and treatment of opioid dependence. The decision gives a new dose strength of 16 milligrams and 4 milligrams of the respective active ingredients, buprenorphine, and naloxone. With an opioid addiction crisis gripp...


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    IS REGULAR SCREENING FOR PROSTATE CANCER REALLY NECESSARY?

    Sep 07, 2018

    A BMJ commission considered whether or not regular screening for prostate cancer using the prostate-specific antigen test is truly necessary, despite the possible risks it carries.
    According to an official statement released by the United States Preventive Services Task Force in JAMA, men in ...


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    ELECTRON MICROSCOPY PROVIDES NEW VIEW OF TINY VIRUS WITH THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL

    Sep 07, 2018

    The imaging method called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allows researchers to visualize the shapes of biological molecules with an unprecedented level of detail. Now, a team led by researchers from the Salk Institute and the University of Florida is reporting how they used cryo-EM to show the s...


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    A NEW THEORY FOR PHANTOM LIMB PAIN POINTS THE WAY TO MORE EFFECTIVE TREATMENT

    Sep 06, 2018

    Dr. Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious condition, 'phantom limb pain'. Published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, his hypothesis builds upon his previous work on a revolutionary treatment for the c...

    CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=19411941

    HISTORIC FLUORINE DISCOVERY

    Sep 06, 2018

    A groundbreaking discovery by chemists at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) will have a significant impact on how pharmaceutical companies develop new drug treatments. The breakthrough involves fluorine, which forms the second strongest carbon bond (C-F) known to science, after the carbo...


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    DEMENTIA: 10-YEAR RISK ESTIMATES MAY INFORM PREVENTION

    Sep 05, 2018

    A large study provides 10-year absolute estimates for dementia risk. The scientists hope that by identifying people at high risk, specialists might be able to put in place early strategies for prevention.
    According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every 3 seconds a new case of dementia...


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    NEW SMALLER FLEXIBLE ROBOTIC SURGICAL SYSTEM FROM SOUTH KOREA

    Sep 05, 2018

    At KAIST, a major South Korean science, and technology university, researchers have developed a flexible robotic surgical system that is designed to work on difficult to reach places. The K-FLEX endoscopic surgical robot has arms that are only 3.7 mm in diameter, allowing them to work through standa...


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    WEIGHT LOSS: PLANT-BASED DRUG 'SWITCHES OFF' HUNGER

    Sep 04, 2018

    Designing a pill that is able to dampen hunger without causing significant side effects is the holy grail of obesity research. According to a new study, we might be one step closer. Obesity affects more than 1 in 3 people in the United States that's more than 93 million people. Worryingly, that ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=19341934

    REGULATOR PROTEIN KEY TO MALARIA PARASITE'S LIFECYCLE

    Sep 04, 2018

    Malaria remains a significant threat to human health with approximately 216 million cases annually and over 400,000 deaths worldwide. It is caused by the Plasmodium parasite, which has a complex lifecycle involving transmission to humans via the Anopheles mosquito. 

    New experimental re...

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    MORE US ADOLESCENTS UP TO DATE ON HPV VACCINATION

    Sep 03, 2018

    The number of adolescents who are up to date on HPV vaccination – meaning they started and completed the HPV vaccine series – increased five percentage points from 2016 to 2017, according to results from a national survey published in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MM...


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    CHAOS-INDUCING GENETIC APPROACH STYMIES ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT SUPERBUGS

    Sep 03, 2018

    A genetic disruption strategy developed by University of Colorado Boulder researchers effectively stymies the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as E. coli, giving scientists a crucial leg up in the ongoing battle against deadly superbugs. These multidrug-resistant pathogens—which...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=19301930

    DECTIN-1 PATHWAY MAY BE CRUCIAL FOR TREATING FUNGAL INFLAMMATION AND PAIN

    Aug 31, 2018

    Researchers from Osaka University identified how the Dectin-1 to TRP channel pathway is a signaling mechanism in the onset of pain, and how inhibition of the VNUT ATP transporter blocks candidiasis-mediated pain. Candidiasis, Candida albicans infection, can cause skin, genital or oral pain. Many stu...


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    ASTRAZENECA IMPROVES DIABETES PEN TO MAINTAIN ITS MARKET SHARE

    Aug 31, 2018

    The European Commission (EC) has approved AstraZeneca’s Bydureon BCise, a new weekly formulation of established GLP-1 diabetes drug with the added benefit of glucose reduction, better weight loss results and a new injection pen. AstraZeneca announced that the EC green-lighted the new formulati...


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    PFIZER DRUG REDUCES MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH FATAL HEART DISEASE

    Aug 30, 2018

    Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is a rare, fatal under-diagnosed disease that usually affects men aged 60-plus, whereby amyloid fibrils made from misfolded transthyretin protein accumulate in the heart. In most patients, death is caused by sudden heart failure or heart-related issues....

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    FDA WARNS OF COMMON DIABETES MEDS' LINK TO DANGEROUS GENITAL INFECTION

    Aug 30, 2018

    (HealthDay) Rare but serious genital infections, as well as one death, have been reported in some patients taking a certain class of type 2 diabetes medicine, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. As a result, the FDA has ordered a new warning about this risk to be added to the prescribing inf...


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    DIGITAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY HAS POTENTIAL TO TRANSFORM CANCER CARE

    Aug 29, 2018

    Digital and connected health technology has real potential to transform cancer care, writes Piotr Wnuk. Start-ups are utilizing well-established devices from technology firms like Microsoft and Apple to implement their specialized software, targeting particular conditions. Recent developments and in...


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    HOW UNSECURED, OBSOLETE MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEMS AND MEDICAL DEVICES PUT PATIENT LIVES AT RISK

    Aug 29, 2018

    A team of physicians and computer scientists at the University of California has shown that it is easy to modify medical test results remotely by attacking the connection between hospital laboratory devices and medical record systems. These types of attacks might be more likely used against high-pro...


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    LIVIO AI HEARING AIDS WITH PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE HEALTH MONITORING

    Aug 28, 2018

    Starkey, one of the big hearing aid firms, is releasing a new device that works as a combination hearing aid, fitness monitor, and, surprisingly, as a tracker of cognitive health. In addition to all this, the new Livio AI hearing aids feature integrated language translation, connectivity to Amazon A...

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    SECOND TIME LUCKY? ALZHEON TRIES FOR MUCH-REDUCED IPO

    Aug 28, 2018

    After an aborted attempt earlier this year, Alzheon is having another go at an IPO to help fund new trials of its Alzheimer’s candidate tramiprosate. However, the biotech has dialed down its target for the fundraising, and bookrunners on the IPO have also changed from Piper Jaffray and Citi to...

    PHIL TAYLOR
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    FIRMS URGED TO STOCKPILE DRUGS TO PREVENT BREXIT SHORTAGES

    Aug 27, 2018

    The UK government has outlined how it will ensure the supply of medicines continues in the event of a “no deal” Brexit, urging companies to stockpile six weeks’ worth of medicine. With the March 2019 Brexit deadline looming ever closer, there are mounting concerns that the UK will ...


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    EBOLA SPECIES FOUND IN BATS AHEAD OF ANY POTENTIAL OUTBREAK

    Aug 27, 2018

    For the first time, scientists discovered a new ebolavirus species in a host prior to detection in an infected human or sick animal. The discovery of the Bombali virus in bats in Sierra Leone and the sequencing of the complete genome was officially published today in the journal Nature Microbiology....


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    FOR FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS, CURE FOR ACUTE LEUKEMIA WITHIN REACH

    Aug 24, 2018

    Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the most aggressive cancers. While other cancers have benefitted from new treatments, there has been no encouraging news for most leukemia patients for the past 40 years. Until now. As published today in the scientific journal Cell, Professor Yinon Ben-Neriah and his...


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    TRACKING THE EVOLUTION AND TRANSMISSION OF YELLOW FEVER

    Aug 23, 2018

    A pioneering Oxford University research collaboration into yellow fever virus (YFV) has shed new light on the exceptional recent outbreak in Brazil and how the virus spreads. The findings have implications for monitoring viral transmission and could potentially contribute to a strategy for eliminati...


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    KEEPING CANCER OUT OF BREATH BLOCKS DRUG RESISTANCE

    Aug 23, 2018

    A new combination of existing drugs shows promise that it could reduce the size of cancerous tumors much more effectively than current treatments. As cancer patients know all too well, many highly effective anti-cancer drugs don't stay effective long. Most tumors will become drug resistant over ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18951895

    CELLULAR CHANGES LEAD TO CHRONIC ALLERGIC INFLAMMATION IN THE SINUS

    Aug 22, 2018

    Chronic rhinosinusitis is distinct from your average case of seasonal allergies. It causes the sinuses to become inflamed and swollen for months to years at a time, leading to difficulty breathing and other symptoms that make patients feel miserable. In some people, this condition also produces tiss...

    MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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    NEW IMPLANT FOR GERD AVOIDS SWALLOWING COMPLICATIONS

    Aug 22, 2018

    A new implantable device has been approved for use in Europe to help treat acid reflux disease. The IM RefluxStop device from Implantica, a company based in Zug, Switzerland, is designed to avoid some of the limitations of current minimally invasive reconstructive acid reflux procedures, such as dif...

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    DEHYDRATION ALTERS HUMAN BRAIN SHAPE AND ACTIVITY, SLACKENS TASK PERFORMANCE

    Aug 21, 2018

    When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and do monotonous tasks can get harder. With the help of brain scans and a simple, repetitive task to test responsiveness, exercise physiologists at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied volunteer subjects w...

    GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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    NO CANCER RISK FOR TELOMERASE GENE THERAPY

    Aug 21, 2018

    Representative images of lungs treated with gene therapy vectors. The nuclei are in blue, alveolar type II cells in green and telomeres in red. Notice that lung cells treated with active telomerase present more intense telomeres indicating that they are longer as compared to lung cells treated with ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18851885

    NEW DEVICE FOR STUDYING BACTERIAL BIOFILM FORMATION

    Aug 20, 2018

    Biofilms are large groups of bacterial cells that stick together and protect each other like a Roman legion. Drugs and other therapies can poke at the exterior of a biofilm, but killing the mass can be extremely challenging. Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan dec...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18791879

    BRAINSWAY TRANSCRANIAL STIMULATION CLEARED IN U.S. FOR OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

    Aug 20, 2018

    Brainsway, Israel’s leading magnetic stimulation company, won FDA de novo clearance for its system to be used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the United States. The company’s Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation system is used to deliver magnetic field pulses to the fro...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18801880

    REGENERON/TEVA PAIN DRUG FASINUMAB ON TARGET IN PHASE 3

    Aug 17, 2018

    Regeneron and Teva have announced positive top-line phase 3 results from their fasinumab, as the companies chase Pfizer and Lilly in the race to market a new class of non-opioid painkillers. Fasinumab is from a class of drugs targeting nerve growth factor (NGF), which plays a central role in the reg...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18751875

    HACKERS COULD TAKE CONTROL OF MEDICAL DEVICES, MCAFEE WARNS

    Aug 16, 2018

    Research published by the cybersecurity company, McAfee, shows it is possible to modify real-time patient heart monitor data by hacking into a hospital network and gaining control of medical devices. The report published by McAfee proves that hackers could easily alter patients’ vital signs by...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18741874

    ACTISOUND INTENSE THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND DEVICE CLEARED IN EUROPE

    Aug 14, 2018

    Guided Therapy Systems, based in Mesa, Arizona, landed EU CE mark approval (via Ardent Sound Inc., Guided’s partner, and manufacturer) for the Actisound Intense Therapeutic Ultrasound device. It’s intended to help recover from a variety of injuries and chronic pain resulting from interna...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18691869

    GN HEARING UNVEILS RESOUND LINX QUATTRO ADVANCED HEARING AID

    Aug 14, 2018

    GN Hearing, a company that makes audio technology that appears under names such as Beltone, Interton, and Jabra, just announced new hearing aid called ReSound LiNX Quattro. The firm describes it as “the world’s first Premium-Plus hearing aid,” delivering what it believes is the bes...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18701870

    STUDY REVEALS BROAD 'GENETIC ARCHITECTURES' OF TRAITS AND DISEASES

    Aug 13, 2018

    Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a powerful method for characterizing the broad patterns of genetic contributions to traits and diseases. The new method provides a "big picture" of genetic influences that should be particularly helpful in designi...

    UNIVERSITY BLOOMBERG
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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18611861

    HAILIE INHALER MONITORING SYSTEM NOW AVAILABLE DIRECT TO CONSUMERS

    Aug 13, 2018

    Adherium, a Silicon Valley firm, is releasing its Hailie system for inhaler monitoring in the United States. The company received FDA clearance to sell the product over the counter, allowing patients to work toward improved compliance with regards to their medications. The system includes a sensor t...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18651865

    FIRST PATIENT RECEIVES MEDTRONIC’S EXTRAVASCULAR IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR

    Aug 10, 2018

    A pilot study is getting underway to evaluate a new Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillator that doesn’t require leads to be placed inside the heart or veins. The Extravascular Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (EV ICD) system can deliver defibrillation shocks as well as pacing s...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18601860

    NEW DEVICE FOR TESTING IMMUNOTHERAPIES ON TUMOR FRAGMENTS

    Aug 09, 2018

    Immuno-oncology, a rapidly developing field that harnesses the body’s immune system to attack cancers, lacks effective methods of testing potential therapies. In addition to animal studies, tiny bits of tumors are placed, along with chemical compounds being tested, within multiwell plates and ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18591859

    MOLECULAR SENSOR TO DETECT IF CANCER DRUG IS WORKING

    Aug 08, 2018

    Being able to monitor the chemical content of cancer cells may help scientists develop new anti-cancer medications. Additionally, it may also lead to personalized drug therapies for cancer patients that all too often end up trying multiple medications before finding one that works. Chemists at MIT h...

    MIT
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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18541854

    WRISTBAND PERFORMS BLOOD CELL COUNTS TO MONITOR HEALTH ANYWHERE

    Aug 08, 2018

    The popularity of smartwatches, activity trackers, and other wearable devices is in large part due to the hope that such tools can help monitor health. While new products keep coming out, progress on embedding sensors that can monitor things other than one’s heart rate and activity level has s...

    RUTGERS
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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18551855

    NOVEL PET IMAGING COULD GUIDE THERAPY FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES

    Aug 07, 2018

    Researchers have discovered a new positron imaging tomography (PET) imaging method to improve the care of patients with type 1 diabetes. The new PET method could measure beta-cell mass which would enhance the ability to monitor a diabetes patient and guide their therapy. Dr. Jason Bini, Yale Un...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18501850

    GENETIC DIVERSITY IMPACTS DISEASE SEVERITY

    Aug 07, 2018

    New research offers clues as to why some diseases are highly variable between individuals. The phenomenon is apparent in people with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that causes the light-sensing cells in the eye to degenerate. While some only develop night blindness, others completely lose their s...

    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
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    FLOW DIVERTER WITH HEMODYNAMIC SENSOR TO MONITOR ANEURYSM TREATMENT

    Aug 06, 2018

    Flow diverters are implants that are commonly used to prevent blood from flowing into aneurysms. They look very similar to stents and are often combined into one device, but instead of providing structural strength, they provide a way for blood to pass from one part of a vessel to another without fl...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18411841

    REGENERON FORGES CAR-T R&D PARTNERSHIP WITH BLUEBIRD BIO

    Aug 06, 2018

    Regeneron is pushing forward with its investment in cancer immunotherapy, striking a deal with bluebird bio to develop cell therapies. Through its partnership with Sanofi, Regeneron is poised to bring the sixth checkpoint inhibitor therapy to the market with its cemiplimab, which the FDA is set to m...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18421842

    REGENERA PHARMA STARTS PHASE III STUDY, LOOKS TO TAP US VENTURE CAPITAL

    Aug 03, 2018

    An Israeli drugmaker has come out of stealth and enrolled the first patient in its Phase III study that aims to treat an eye disorder using a drug derived from a type of tree resin. Regenera Pharma announced Thursday the enrollment of the first patient in the 234-patient study of RPh201 in nonarteri...

    ALARIC DEARMENT
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    HOW HOSPITALS ARE INTEGRATING AUGMENTED REALITY AND OTHER TECH TO IMPROVE THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE

    Aug 03, 2018

    New, emerging technologies are turning patients into savvy healthcare consumers with higher expectations around the services they receive. From wearables to telemedicine, virtual and augmented reality, 3D imaging, and artificial intelligence, patients are increasingly drawn to cutting-edge experienc...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18371837

    NEW TUBERCULOSIS DRUG COULD HELP ERADICATE GLOBAL KILLER

    Aug 02, 2018

    A groundbreaking drug, rifampin, could help to end the global tuberculosis epidemic, according to researchers. Clinical trials carried out at the McGill University Health Centre showed that rifampin is less toxic and is more effective than the standard of care treatment, isoniazid. The results of tw...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18311831

    FDA GRANTS LEUKAEMIA DRUG ‘BREAKTHROUGH’ STATUS

    Aug 02, 2018

    A leukemia drug has been granted ‘breakthrough therapy’ status by the US drug regulator. Daiichi Sankyo announced that it had been awarded the designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for quizartinib, which is used to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This means the pro...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18321832

    JOHNSON & JOHNSON LEADS THE WAY TO A WORLD WITHOUT DISEASE

    Aug 01, 2018

    Cat Oyler, Global Head of External Innovation Strategy and Operations at Johnson & Johnson (J&J), has an ambitious and compelling vision for the future of healthcare: a world without disease. She spoke to pharmaphorum as part of the latest in the eye-on-innovation series of articles. As one ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18261826

    FDA APPROVES FIRST DRUG TO TREAT RARE ADRENAL CANCER

    Aug 01, 2018

    Azedra has received FDA approval to become the first and only treatment for a type of rare adrenal cancer. Progenics Pharmaceuticals shares soared after its drug Azedra, a new version of the radiopharmaceutical injectable drug iobenguane I-131, was given the green light by the US Food and Drug Admin...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18271827

    A MINIATURIZED SEMICONDUCTOR BIOCHIP TO IDENTIFY DRUG-RESISTANT PATHOGENS

    Jul 31, 2018

    Evolving strains of multi-drug resistant pathogens are a growing global concern, outpacing drug discovery efforts and undermining the efficacy of existing antibiotics. The development of comprehensive diagnostics for clinical applications will become crucial to control escalating health risks. Exist...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18211821

    PARKINSON'S DISEASE: BREATH TEST FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS STEPS CLOSER

    Jul 31, 2018

    Scientists in Israel have developed a breath test that can detect people with early-stage Parkinson's disease. Neurons in Parkinson's disease The team from Technion Israel Institute of Technology had previously shown that the test can detect people with Parkinson's disease who are alread...


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    NANO-OPTIC ENDOSCOPE SEES DEEP INTO TISSUE AT HIGH RESOLUTION

    Jul 30, 2018

    The diagnosis of diseases based on internal organs often relies on biopsy samples collected from affected regions. But collecting such samples is highly error-prone due to the inability of current endoscopic imaging techniques to accurately visualize sites of disease. The conventional optical elemen...

    HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
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    HOW CELLS ACTIVELY STOP BREAST CANCER FROM BECOMING INVASIVE

    Jul 30, 2018

    A new study shows that the cells surrounding the breast's milk ducts form an active barrier that extends and grabs cancer cells before they spread to the rest of the body. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2017, there were over 310,000 new cases of breast cancer among American women....


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18171817

    BLOCKING ONE ENZYME COULD HELP TREAT MANY CHRONIC DISORDERS

    Jul 27, 2018

    Researchers have identified an enzyme that plays a key role in a biological mechanism common to many chronic inflammatory disorders. The discovery — which has been reported in a paper now published in the journal Nature — could lead to new drugs for treating diverse inflammation-related ...

    CATHARINE PADDOCK PHD
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    MERCK & CO’S KEYTRUDA SHOWS POTENTIAL IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER USE

    Jul 27, 2018

    Merck & Co might be able to find another use for its immunotherapy Keytruda in first-line head and neck cancer, after revealing promising phase 3 trial results. US-based Merck said the pivotal phase 3 trial investigating Keytruda monotherapy as a first-line treatment in recurrent or metastatic h...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=18111811

    HOW DO JUMPING GENES CAUSE DISEASE, DRIVE EVOLUTION?

    Jul 26, 2018

    Almost half of our DNA sequences are made up of jumping genes also known as transposons. They jump around the genome in developing sperm and egg cells and are important to evolution. But their mobilization can also cause new mutations that lead to diseases, such as hemophilia and cancer. Remarkably ...

    CARNEGIE INSTITUTION FOR SCIENCE
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    MADE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA TURNS CLINICIANS’ IDEAS INTO MEDICAL PRODUCTS

    Jul 26, 2018

    New medical devices and technologies are being unveiled on a daily basis, as readers of Medgadget know well. Medical professionals are provided so much newly discovered knowledge that they end up creating new devices to take advantage of that knowledge. The medical device industry has a problem keep...

    JORDAN KAUFMANN
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    ACCU-CHEK SOLO TUBE-FREE INSULIN MICROPUMP CLEARED IN EUROPE

    Jul 25, 2018

    Roche will soon release in Europe its tube-free Accu-Chek Solo insulin micropump following the CE marking of the device. The micropump comes with a smartphone-like wireless remote control that features glucose monitoring and provides advice on how much insulin to administer. Moreover, the remote con...

    ROCHE
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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=17991799

    THE DARK SIDE OF ANTIBIOTIC CIPROFLOXACIN

    Jul 25, 2018

    `The use of ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics of the class of fluoroquinolones may be associated with disruption of the normal functions of connective tissue, including tendon rupture, tendonitis, and retinal detachment. These observations reported in a number of journals resulted in the drugs cur...

    BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
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    POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH IN UNDERSTANDING HOW ANTIBIOTICS TREAT BACTERIA

    Jul 24, 2018

    Scientists from Newcastle University and the UK's ISIS Neutron and Muon research facility have worked together on a new project that is increasing our understanding of how antibiotics treat bacteria. With the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria increasing in recent years, the ability to deve...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=17961796

    ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN A LEECH'S GUT: EVEN TRACE AMOUNTS OF ANTIBIOTICS BOOST RESISTANT BACTERIA

    Jul 24, 2018

    Plastic surgery patients were getting infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and no one knew why. UConn microbiologists found the answer in a leech's gut. Their research, published today in mBio, provides proof that tiny levels of antibiotics found in the environment can encourage bacter...

    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
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    LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN IMPROVES MEMORY IN MICE WITH ALZHEIMER’S SYMPTOMS

    Jul 23, 2018

    Aspirin is one of the most widely used drugs. Besides providing pain relief, it has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer and heart attacks. Some suggest that aspirin might also protect against Alzheimer’s disease because the disease is less common in aspirin users than nonusers. But w...


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    FDA OPENS DOOR TO IMPORTING DRUGS

    Jul 23, 2018

    Rising pressure to do more to control drug prices is prompting Trump administration officials to explore where more flexible import policies may help ensure access to safe, effective, and more affordable medicines. For years, consumer advocates and state officials have pushed for access to less expe...


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    LINK BETWEEN DIABETES AND CANCER RISK FIRMLY ESTABLISHED

    Jul 20, 2018

    That diabetes and cancer are linked in some way is by no means a new idea, but it had never previously been confirmed. Now, a major new study draws a firm conclusion: diabetes raises a person's risk of developing cancer. The person taking blood sugar test New research warns that the risk of canc...


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    NOVARTIS PAYS UP TO $1 BILLION FOR POTENTIAL ECZEMA DRUG

    Jul 19, 2018

    Swiss pharma Novartis is to pay up to $1 billion to Galapagos and MorphoSys for exclusive rights to a skin drug, which will further strengthen Novartis’s leadership position in the immunology field. Belgo-Dutch biotech Galapagos and Germany’s MorphoSys have signed a global license agreem...

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    AZ SUFFERS SETBACK AS NICE SLAPS RESTRICTIONS ON FASENRA

    Jul 19, 2018

    NICE has recommended in a draft decision that AstraZeneca’s latest lung drug Fasenra can be funded by the NHS in severe asthma – but only in patients that are ineligible for GlaxoSmithKline’s rival. AstraZeneca’s Fasenra (benralizumab) is one of a group of new drugs it hopes ...


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    RISK OF HEART ATTACK RISING FOR PREGNANT WOMEN

    Jul 18, 2018

    Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States who are pregnant or have given birth. Heart disease can lead to heart failure, heart attack, stroke, and sudden cardiac arrest. A recent study from the NYU School of Medicine shows that heart attack rates are on the rise in...

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    IMMUNOTHERAPY INCREASES SURVIVAL OF MELANOMA BRAIN METASTASES PATIENTS

    Jul 18, 2018

    Melanoma, a form of skin cancer, accounts for about 1% of all skin cancer cases and a vast majority of skin cancer deaths. In Stage IV melanoma more than 60% of patients will develop brain metastases, which is difficult to treat and carries an overall survival of about 4-5 months. A recent study out...

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    CANCER: CAN TESTOSTERONE IMPROVE PATIENTS' QUALITY OF LIFE?

    Jul 17, 2018

    Studies have noted that "[a]pproximately half of all patients with cancer experience cachexia," severely impairing their quality of life. It appears to be "responsible for the death of 22 [percent] of cancer patients." What exactly causes this condition which appears in some pati...


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    TACKLING CANCER AT GROUND ZERO WITH DESIGNER MOLECULES

    Jul 17, 2018

    A new molecule designed by University of Adelaide researchers shows great promise for future treatment of many cancers. The new molecule successfully targets a protein that plays a major role in the growth of most cancers. This protein target is called proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), othe...

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    TREATMENT PREVENTS SYMPTOMS OF SCHIZOPHENIA IN TESTS WITH RATS

    Jul 16, 2018

    Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have tested a treatment with sodium nitroprusside in a strain of rats that spontaneously develop some of the symptoms associated with schizophrenia. The results obtained with a group of adolescent animals suggest that prev...

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    FDA ANNOUNCES VOLUNTARY RECALL OF SEVERAL MEDICINES CONTAINING VALSARTAN

    Jul 16, 2018

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is alerting healthcare professionals and patients of a voluntary recall of several drug products containing the active ingredient valsartan used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. This recall is due to an impurity, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), whi...

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    SCIENTISTS A STEP CLOSER TO PREDICTING EPIDEMICS

    Jul 13, 2018

    Ecologists at the University of Georgia have taken an important step in their efforts to develop an early warning system for infectious disease outbreaks. A team led by Eamon B. O'Dea created a mathematical model that analyzes statistical patterns in public health reports to identify when a popu...

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    RESMED JOINS GOOGLE TO RESEARCH SLEEP APNOEA THERAPIES

    Jul 13, 2018

    Sleep apnoea firm ResMed has joined with Google’s life science division Verily to form a new joint venture studying the health and financial impact of the undiagnosed and untreated disease and find new ways to treat it. The joint venture will combine ResMed’s expertise in sleep apnoea an...


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    PFIZER BACKED OFF, BUT THE PRICE HIKE GAME CONTINUES

    Jul 12, 2018

    Donald Trump may have convinced the US pharma giant Pfizer to defer a price increase for dozens of drugs, but there are others that have escaped such intense scrutiny according to a report. According to the story published today by Bloomberg at least ten other leading pharmaceutical companies increa...


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    RESEARCHERS NARROW IN ON GENETIC FACTORS THAT CAUSE PRETERM BIRTH

    Jul 12, 2018

    Mutations in a gene involved in steroid signaling likely contribute to preterm birth, report Johanna Huusko of the University of Oulu and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and colleagues, in a study of European women who had experienced at least one early delivery. The researchers re...

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    AZ HOPES DIABETES DRUG COULD BE AS EFFECTIVE AS GASTRIC BAND

    Jul 11, 2018

    AstraZeneca is preparing an assault on the growing market for GLP-1-class diabetes drugs with a dual action molecule that the firm hopes could be as effective as a gastric band – and may even have potential in the lucrative market to treat “fatty liver” disease nicknamed NASH. In a...


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    JOHNSON & JOHNSON, LOOKING FOR ITS TREMFYA NICHE, STARTS UP NEW TRIAL PROGRAM IN CROHN'S

    Jul 11, 2018

    Johnson & Johnson immunology newcomer Tremfya is looking to follow in the footsteps of its big brother. MorphoSys, partnered with the New Jersey drugmaker’s Janssen unit, said Tuesday that the drug giant had started up a phase 2/3 clinical trial program in Crohn’s disease, reaching f...

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    AXOVANT AND BENITEC ESTBALISH GENE THERAPY PARTNERSHIP

    Jul 10, 2018

    Pharmaceutical company Axovant Sciences has signed a gene therapy licensing and development deal with Australia-based Benitec Biopharma to expand its pipeline of products. Under the terms of the collaboration, Axovant will have exclusive global licensing rights to Benitec’s Silence-and-Replace...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=17451745

    BLOOD PRESSURE DRUG VERAPAMIL MAY HELP TYPE 1 DIABETICS

    Jul 10, 2018

    A human clinical trial has found that a common blood pressure drug called verapamil can decrease insulin requirements and hypoglycaemic episodes in adults with recent-onset type 1 diabetes. The study, conducted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center, revealed oral v...

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    MORE RESEARCH WITH LAB-GROWN ORGANOIDS

    Jul 09, 2018

    When researching diseases that affect the brain, it's difficult to ethically use human patients. There are experiments that cannot be performed on living subjects. Brain banks are an option for tissue samples, but the need is greater than the supply. What researchers often need to do is cre...

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    PHARMA TAKES LEADING ROLE IN NHS 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

    Jul 06, 2018

    The pharmaceutical industry celebrated the 70th anniversary of the NHS by recognizing the myriad contributions that the sector has made to the lives of many people. The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) ran a series of announcements headlining the life-changing effects o...

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    ORION HAS STARTED A PHASE III TRIAL TO DEVELOP A DRUG FOR ALS

    Jul 06, 2018

    Orion has recruited the first patients in the Phase III clinical trial (REFALS) in which orally administered levosimendan (ODM-109) is being evaluated for the treatment of symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The purpose of the trial is to demonstrate that orally administered levosimenda...

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    NICE REJECTS BMS IMMUNOTHERAPY IN ADVANCED BLADDER CANCER

    Jul 05, 2018

    Bristol-Myers Squibb’s immunotherapy Opdivo (nivolumab) will not be available to advanced bladder cancer patients for at least three years in much of the UK after NICE published final guidance that rejected the drug for regular NHS funding in this use. Following its usual review process, NICE ...

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    PFIZER INCREASES PRICES IN THE US FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS YEAR

    Jul 04, 2018

    The largest standalone drug maker in the US, announced it increase the prices of around 100 drugs for the second time this year, despite president Donald Trump’s pledge to slash the cost of drugs and treatments. The Financial Times reported on Monday that Pfizer upped the prices of prescriptio...

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    ABBVIE, PARTNER ORDERED TO PAY $448M IN ANDROGEL ANTITRUST CASE BROUGHT BY FTC

    Jul 02, 2018

    Even as AbbVie defends against thousands of AndroGel liability cases, the company and partner Besins Healthcare must pay nearly $450 million for illegally blocking generic competition to the testosterone product with "baseless" patent litigation, a judge said.U.S. District Judge Harvey Bar...

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    JOHNSON & JOHNSON SHAKEUP LEAVES JOAQUIN DUATO WITH LARGEST PORTFOLIO

    Jun 25, 2018

    The executive pyramid at Johnson & Johnson is going through a significant revamp with head of pharmaceuticals Joaquin Duato taking on most of the responsibilities held by Group Worldwide Chairman Sandra Peterson as she prepares to retire. Duarto will become a vice chairman of the executive commi...

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    IN RARE SLIP, PFIZER STEAMROLLER IBRANCE FAILS TO SHOW IT HELPS PATIENTS LIVE LONGER

    Jun 25, 2018

    More than two years ago, Pfizer’s Ibrance won an FDA nod to treat some breast cancer patients whose disease had progressed after endocrine therapy. But new study results suggest the drug may not actually help patients live longer.On Monday, Pfizer said Ibrance, in combination with fulvestrant,...

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    FDA GREENLIGHTS GW'S EPIDIOLEX, THE FIRST U.S. DRUG MADE FROM MARIJUANA

    Jun 25, 2018

    The FDA just approved Epidiolex, the GW Pharma seizure drug derived from cannabis, giving children with two rare and serious forms of epilepsy a new treatment—and companies looking to develop marijuana-based drugs a model for their own path to market. The agency approved Epidiolex, or purified...

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    OPIOID MAKER PURDUE DEEP-SIXES SALES TEAM AMID MASS LAYOFF AND MOUNTING LEGAL WOES

    Jun 20, 2018

    Even though opioid addiction emerged years ago as an epidemic, it wasn’t until February of this year that OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma finally stopped promoting the drug to physicians and laid off 200 salespeople. Now the company—which is facing a mountain of legal woes related to the o...

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    UNIVERSAL FLU VACCINE BIOTECH SEEKS BIG PHARMA PARTNERSHIP FOR PHASE 3 TESTING: CEO

    Jun 19, 2018

    Problems with seasonal flu shots have been well documented, and now U.K. biotech Imutex believes it has the next big advance for flu vaccine technology. The company this week reported phase 2b data showing that its universal flu shot, FLU-v, boosted immune responses and lowered infection rates. Imut...

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    VALEANT DEALT 'A MAJOR SETBACK' AS PSORIASIS DUAL-DRUG LOTION DUOBRII FAILS TO IMPRESS FDA

    Jun 18, 2018

    Besides getting a new name, troubled Valeant is also in desperate need of some regulatory success to rebuild its image. But it’s not going to get it from a key plaque psoriasis combo drug Doubrii—at least not soon. The FDA has just rejected Doubrii, one of the seven products that Valeant...

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    CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY INVESTOR GROUP TOUTS SUPPORT OF FIRST-YEAR RESOLUTIONS OVER EXECUTIVE PAY, DRUG PRICING

    Jun 18, 2018

    After pressing five pharma companies for answers about how executive pay plays into drug pricing decisions, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has generated some interest in the issue among the investor community. A group of investors at AbbVie, Amgen, Biogen, Bristol-Myers Squibb and...

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    NICE DOGS ROCHE'S PERJETA AGAIN, THIS TIME IN POSTSURGERY BREAST CANCER PATIENTS

    Jun 15, 2018

    Earlier this month, European regulators approved Roche’s Perjeta for some postsurgery patients with early breast cancer. But England’s cost watchdogs are blocking its path.Friday, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence released draft guidance recommending against NHS use o...

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    CAN SANOFI COMPETE IN LUNG CANCER? WITH I-O MED CEMIPLUMAB, IT’S AIMING FOR THIRD

    Jun 14, 2018

    Same or different that’s a big question rattling around the immuno-oncology field, where PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors have put up differing results in clinical trials.The assessment from Sanofi? The PD-1 drugs themselves are essentially equal. It’s the trial designs that make the...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=17051705

    TRUST PHARMA? NOT SO MUCH, ANNUAL SURVEY SHOWS, WITH BIGGEST LOSS EVER

    Jun 13, 2018

    Trust has hit a new low for pharma in Edelman’s annual Trust Barometer survey. The 13-point drop from 51% to 38% in the U.S. was the category’s biggest plummet in the five years the public relations and marketing firm has been tracking sentiment.Plus, it’s a turnaround in the wrong...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=17031703

    SPROUT'S OLD CEO IS BACK, AND SHE'S GOT SOME NEW MARKETING IDEAS FOR FEMALE LIBIDO DRUG ADDYI

    Jun 12, 2018

    Now that former shareholders of Sprout Pharmaceuticals, maker of controversial female libido pill Addyi, have the company back in their hands, they’ve reinstalled a familiar face at the helm. Cindy Eckert, who went by Cindy Whitehead during her last stint as CEO, is once again in the company&r...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=17011701

    DOCTORS ARE COMING AROUND TO TEVA'S AUSTEDO AS TD DRUGS GET MORE PLAY: ANALYST

    Jun 11, 2018

    In the brand-new tardive dyskinesia market, doctors initially preferred Neurocrine’s Ingrezza over Teva’s Austedo. But that edge is weakening, one analyst says. These days, doctors are viewing the two drugs as “more similar than different,” Leerink Partners analyst Ami Fadia ...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16981698

    CITING 'SUBSTANTIAL BENEFIT' FOR PATIENTS, SANOFI HIKED FLUBLOK PRICE 12.5% LAST SEASON

    Jun 06, 2018

    Amid an industrywide look into pharma's pricing, Sanofi has pledged to limit its drug price hikes to the rate of medical inflation. The company recently tweaked its policy to provide rationale for any hikes above that level, and in the first year of the policy, detailed a 12.5% increase for a fl...

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    ROCHE'S MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS DRUG OCREVUS LOWERED PATIENTS' VACCINE RESPONSES: STUDY

    Jun 06, 2018

    Roche’s multiple sclerosis newcomer Ocrevus was approved by the FDA last March bearing a warning about immunization. Now, researchers have gathered clinical data showing it could weaken the effectiveness of certain vaccines. In a Roche-sponsored phase 3b study, scientists examined over 100 MS ...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16941694

    ASTRAZENECA PRESSURES FELLOW PHARMAS WITH VOW TO REVEAL DOCTOR PAYMENTS WORLDWIDE

    Jun 04, 2018

    Pharmas’ payments to doctors raise concerns about prescription bias and have triggered bribery investigations, too. So, to win patients' trust, transparency matters. And now, AstraZeneca is going beyond its Big Pharma fellows to disclose all its doc payments, even in regions where it's...

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    MEDICARE WANTS INSURERS TO MONITOR SUSPICIOUS PRESCRIBING OF LAUGHING DRUG NUEDEXTA

    Jun 04, 2018

    For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has been hearing concerns that laughing drug Nuedexta was being aggressively pushed by maker Avenair Pharmaceuticals and some doctors for questionable use on dementia patients. Now, the CMS is asking insurers to be on alert for that kind of...

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    AMGEN IS THE LATEST DRUGMAKER TO HAVE A HERCEPTIN BIOSIM SIDELINED BY A CRL

    Jun 01, 2018

    Amgen, in a two-sentence announcement today, said it received a complete response letter for the biosimilar of Roche’s cancer med Herceptin it developed with Allergan. It marks the third Herceptin biosimilar that has been stalled by the FDA but has won approval in Europe. The Thousand Oaks, Ca...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16881688

    GILEAD WINS CHINESE APPROVAL FOR EPCLUSA, BUT THE EMERGING MARKET IS GETTING CROWDED

    May 31, 2018

    Epclusa was just greenlighted by China’s Drug Administration (CDA). For hepatitis C patients in China, that means the first pangenotypic treatment will soon be available to them. But for Gilead, it might be too little, too late.The Chinese authority based its decision on five international pha...

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    JOHNSON & JOHNSON HAS THE MOST BUCKS FOR BIOPHARMA M&A, ASTELLAS THE EASIEST TARGET: ANALYST

    May 29, 2018

    The $62 billion Takeda-Shire deal surprised everyone—and worries some—as Takeda is borrowing an enormous $31 billion to help pay for the purchase. Does it refresh the industry’s understanding of M&A affordability and open up more possibilities for future deals? Leerink’s ...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16751675

    FDA HITS CHINESE API MAKER JILIN SHULAN SYNTHETIC PHARMA WITH WARNING LETTER

    May 29, 2018

    Chinese API maker Jilin Shulan Synthetic Pharma was hit with a warning letter by the FDA, which cited numerous quality control and data integrity issues.The letter, which was posted on the regulatory agency’s website, came in reaction to the company’s response to an FDA inspection conduc...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16781678

    NOVARTIS' UNDER-PRESSURE SANDOZ UNIT OFFLOADS QUEBEC PLANT TO FAST-GROWING AVARA

    May 25, 2018

    Novartis has been looking to jettison some assets in its North American generics business, but as it turns out, it is a manufacturing facility in Canada that will be sold off first. Avara Pharmaceutical Services has inked a deal to buy Novartis Technical Operations’ sterile manufacturing facil...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16841684

    HELLO, $200B: SUPER-PRICEY NEW CANCER DRUGS DRIVE MEGA INCREASES IN TREATMENT SPENDING

    May 24, 2018

    It wasn't all that long ago that a six-figure price on a debut cancer drug was big news. Now, it would be more surprising if an oncology launch didn't carry a price tag of $100,000 or more—and the high cost of those new rollouts is helping drive cancer treatment costs toward $100 billi...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16721672

    LILLY'S CANCER BUSINESS LOSES ITS CHIEF JUST AS IT'S LEANING ON ONCOLOGY FOR GROWTH

    May 24, 2018

    Eli Lilly is leaning on oncology as a key pillar for growth going forward, but with news that its president of the business, Sue Mahony, is retiring, the drugmaker will need to find new leadership for the unit. During her 18 years at Lilly, Mahony has ascended the ranks—earning a spot on the e...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16731673

    ASTELLAS CUTS 600 POSITIONS IN JAPAN AS NEW CEO MAKES HIS MARK

    May 23, 2018

    Joining a host of other drug companies announcing slim-down efforts in recent months, Astellas is shedding 600 positions in Japan in R&D and sales and marketing. The company announced an early retirement program for eligible employees, hoping to enroll 600 staffers for an early exit.As part of t...

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    NOTE TO PHARMA AI COMPANIES COULD USE YOUR HELP DETAILING DOCTORS

    May 16, 2018

    Artificial intelligence companies are coming up with all kinds of ways to help pharma improve clinical trials, zero in on which patients will benefit most from their drugs and go well beyond the pill. So how can pharma return the favor? By convincing reluctant doctors to jump on board, for starters....

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16681668

    AZAR THREATENS DRUGMAKERS WITH TRUMP'S TEMPER IF THEY HIKE PRICES FOR NO REASON

    May 15, 2018

    HHS Secretary Alex Azar hinted Monday that drugmakers intent on raising prices could not only see some public shame, but a crackdown from Medicare Part D plans pushing discounts.Drug companies looking for intel about how the Trump administration plans to deploy its "friendly to pharma" pri...

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    FROM OLD BEHEMOTH LIPITOR TO NEW KING HUMIRA: BEST-SELLING U.S. DRUGS OVER 25 YEARS

    May 14, 2018

    Take a look at 25 years' worth of drug sales, and some familiar names pop up: the megablockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor, for one. But you'll also find some drugs that aren't the mass-market successes Lipitor was. Amgen's staple anemia treatment Epogen, for one.Beyond the drugs the...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16661666

    MERCK'S EXPERIMENTAL EBOLA SHOT GETS SET TO FIGHT DEADLY NEW OUTBREAK IN CONGO

    May 14, 2018

    As the death toll mounts in a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health officials are preparing to deploy Merck & Co.'s experimental vaccine against the virus. The pharma giant revved up the development project amid a major Ebola breakout in 2014 and 2015.The new outbrea...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16621662

    SANOFI’S SHIFT TO ROBOTS AND ‘DIGITAL TWINS’ AT U.S. BIOLOGICS SITE COSTS 95 JOBS

    May 10, 2018

    Sanofi is investing more than $300 million in its Framingham, Massachusetts, plant as it continues a global manufacturing transformation that at some plants leans heavily on robots and digital processes. But more robots translates into fewer people and so the company will cut nearly 100 jobs at the ...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16561656

    GILEAD SHELVED SAFER HIV DRUGS FOR YEARS TO PROTECT ITS TDF MONOPOLY, ANOTHER LAWSUIT SAYS

    May 09, 2018

    Gilead Sciences is no stranger to furious patients and advocates, many of whom have said over the years that the company puts shareholder interests over their own. Now, two patients allege that the drugmaker shelved better HIV treatments in favor of monopoly sales and at the detriment of their healt...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16571657

    WHO DO YOU TRUST? FOR DOCTORS, IT'S BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB AND BIOGEN

    May 09, 2018

    When it comes to pharma partners, doctors prefer quality digital content. While that makes sense, new research shows that it also fosters trust with U.S. physicians.For the first time, DRG Digital’s Manhattan Research queried doctors about which pharma companies they trust in its annual Taking...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16511651

    HYPE OR HOPE? NEW E-BOOK TACKLES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PHARMA AND HEALTHCARE

    May 07, 2018

    Pharma companies want to know what all the hype's about when it comes to artificial intelligence. Intouch Solutions and Digital Health Coalition have been asked that question often, so the two teamed up to write a book about AI. The e-book will be released in stages, eventually with five chapter...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16521652

    FRESENIUS ALLEGES ‘BLATANT FRAUD AT THE VERY TOP LEVEL’ OF AKORN OPERATIONS

    May 07, 2018

    Fresenius continues to hammer Akorn with allegations of fraud in its drug development and manufacturing as the German company battles to extract itself from its $4.3 billion buyout of the U.S. sterile injectables maker. Fresenius CEO Stephan Sturm in the German company’s earnings call Friday q...

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    TEVA EXPECTS FDA PREAPPROVAL INSPECTION OF TROUBLED CELLTRION PLANT THIS YEAR

    May 04, 2018

    Teva said in its first-quarter earnings report that it expects an FDA pre-approval inspection in the coming months of the plant where its partner Celltrion produces the API for Teva's migraine treatment fremanezumab. Wall Street speculation had focused on the fremanezumab approval and rollout to...

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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=16441644

    DRUG CONTAMINATION TEST MAKER RAPID MICRO SECURES $60M IN FINANCING TO EXPAND

    May 03, 2018

    Rapid Micro Biosystems, maker of microbial detection technology for drug manufacturers, secured $60 million in financing to expand its global reach and develop new products. The equity financing was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences and Xeraya Capital. Also included in the funding round were Asahi K...

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    BIOGEN CEO’S PAY JUMPS AS HE TAKES THE TOP SEAT, BUT THE STOCK'S STILL FALLING

    Apr 30, 2018

    Biogen CEO Michel Vounatsos totted up a healthy $13.6 million in the usual mix of pay, shares and other compensation last year, but he'll likely need some big R&D deals and wins to boost the company's outlook—and lift his pay for 2018. Long-standing Biogen CEO George Scangos left t...

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    SANOFI SUFFERS A DIABETES BLOODBATH AS MEDICARE AND PRICE CUTS COMPOUND THE FORMULARY PAIN

    Apr 27, 2018

    It was bad enough when Sanofi announced during its fourth-quarter earnings back in February that its diabetes sales in the U.S. fell nearly 30% after CVS Health and UnitedHealthcare axed the company’s top sellers from their formularies. But today the French pharma giant revealed that its pain ...

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    ROCHE'S OCREVUS IS ONE OF THE BEST MS LAUNCHES EVER, BUT TECENTRIQ IN I-O? NOT SO MUCH

    Apr 26, 2018

    Don't worry about biosimilars, Roche says. Our new drugs will have it handled. In fact, we're in the middle of one of the most successful multiple sclerosis launches ever. That was the essential message from the Swiss drugmaker's executives Thursday as they reported first-quarter results...

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    FEDS ALMOST READY TO CHARGE DRUGMAKERS AND EXECUTIVES IN GENERICS PRICE-FIXING PROBE

    Apr 25, 2018

    U.S. prosecutors have been digging into potential price-fixing in the generics world, and along the way, they've searched corporate offices and tracked executive movements at industry conferences. Now they're close to slapping charges on two companies and several execs, Bloomberg reports. Th...

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    SHIRE AND TAKEDA COME TO TERMS WITH A $64B DEAL, THE BIGGEST PHARMA M&A IN YEARS

    Apr 25, 2018

    Late Tuesday, after a fifth buyout offer from Takeda, Shire said the Japanese drugmaker had finally landed on a proposal worth recommending to shareholders. It's a cash-and-stock bid now worth $64 billion or so, about $4 billion more than its first offer. The deal still has to be approved by bot...

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    SQUEEZED MYLAN AXING 500 JOBS IN WEST VIRGINIA TO 'RIGHT-SIZE' MASSIVE PLANT

    Apr 23, 2018

    To "right-size" what Mylan says is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical plants, the generic drugmaker is laying off about 500 employees in Morgantown, West Virginia. The cuts come during a tough time for the generic industry at large Mylan included but ahead of some potentially lu...

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    AMID TOUGH RESPIRATORY COMPETITION, ASTRAZENECA INKS SYMBICORT OUTCOMES-BASED DEALS

    Apr 19, 2018

    It's no secret that respiratory drugs make up a crowded field, and forthcoming generics will make the competition tougher still. AstraZeneca's Symbicort is no stranger to the fallout, either, what with payers pressing prices and new rivals grabbing share. But AstraZeneca is fighting back wit...

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    NOVO NORDISK TACKLES OUTCOMES AND AFFORDABILITY WITH PILOT TYING COPAYS TO ADHERENCE

    Apr 18, 2018

    In a new approach to the pricing and payer issues beleaguering pharma in general and diabetes drugmakers in particular, Novo Nordisk has teamed up on a project that puts patients with diabetes to work earning drug discounts for good behavior. The Danish drugmaker is working with Sempre Health on a p...

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    ARMED WITH FIRST-EVER FDA NOD, RIGEL PREPS MAY LAUNCH FOR AUTOIMMUNE DRUG TAVALISSE

    Apr 18, 2018

    After one false alarm or false celebration, rather, with a premature website posting last week Rigel Pharmaceuticals has officially won FDA approval for its main product, Tavalisse. Regulators greenlighted the product Tuesday, opening up a new treatment avenue for patients with chronic immune thromb...

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    AMAZON FINDS IT'S NOT SO EASY TO SELL DRUGS AND NIXES ONE PLAN ENTIRELY: CNBC

    Apr 17, 2018

    Amazon's potential leap into pharmaceuticals has weighed on drug distributors and pharmacies for months, but those companies are getting relief from news that the online retail giant has put at least one of its plans on ice. CNBC reported that Amazon Business a unit that sells bulk products to c...

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    CHALLENGED BY GENERICS INDUSTRY, MARYLAND'S DRUG PRICING LAW FOUND UNCONSTITUTIONAL

    Apr 16, 2018

    With federal lawmakers dallying on drug pricing, Maryland's legislature decided to take action itself. But an appeals court struck down the state's price-gouging law, and that means legislators have to go back to the drawing board. In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circ...

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    THERMO FISHER SPOTLIGHTS ITS PROBLEM-SOLVERS IN CAMPAIGN AIMED AT PHARMA CLIENTS

    Apr 16, 2018

    Thermo Fisher is showing its real face to pharma clients. Make that faces those of its employees and the patients they help. In its new campaign directed at pharma companies, Thermo Fisher Scientific Pharma Services is looking to personalize its drug development and delivery services. Each print ad ...

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    CAN CAR-T AND GENE THERAPY CURES REALLY SUSTAIN BIOPHARMA? NOT FOR ALL, ANALYST SAYS

    Apr 12, 2018

    Ever since 2012 when Novartis invested in personalized CAR-T cancer treatments being developed at the University of Pennsylvania, analysts have pondered a difficult question: How can pharma companies profit from curing patients? Now Novartis’s CAR-T, Kymriah, is on the market, as is a similar ...

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    TRUST ME, PFIZER ISN'T INTERESTED IN BUYING BMS, ANALYST SAYS AT LEAST NOT YET

    Apr 12, 2018

    Investors who have been waiting to see whether serial acquirer Pfizer would strike a megadeal for Bristol-Myers Squibb can cool it, one analyst says. The Big Pharma isn’t interested in snagging its immuno-oncology rival, Citi analyst Andrew Baum wrote to clients in a note seen by The Fly, stre...

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    DESPITE REPORTS FROM MERCK AND JOHNSON & JOHNSON, PHARMA'S NET PRICES 'LIKELY NOT COMING DOWN': ANALYST

    Apr 10, 2018

    Are drug prices coming down? Two leading drugmakers presented numbers suggesting the industry is facing increased pricing pressure, but Bernstein analyst Ronny Gal remains skeptical. Johnson & Johnson recently reported that net prices fell 4.6% in 2017 after the company paid out $15 billion in r...

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    FUJIFILM EXPANDS ITS HEALTHCARE FOOTPRINT WITH $800M ACQUISITION OF CELL-CULTURE MANUFACTURERS

    Apr 05, 2018

    Fujifilm continues to expand its healthcare footprint with the recent acquisition of a pair of cell culture media units from Japan’s JXTG Holdings for about $800 million. The photography and imaging company, which has said it plans to be a major player in the healthcare sector, by June expects...

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    GREEK PROSECUTOR RATCHETS UP INQUIRIES IN NOVARTIS BRIBERY PROBE: REPORT

    Apr 04, 2018

    At Novartis’ annual meeting last month, an investor was quoted lamenting that the “Greek thing will be the swamp that keeps on giving.” The "Greek thing" in question is a widening scandal involving allegations that the Swiss drugmaker paid Greek government officials bribe...

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    BIOPHARMA CAUGHT IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF U.S.-CHINA TRADE TUSSLE

    Apr 04, 2018

    Just a week after Johnson & Johnson chief Alex Gorsky and Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan expressed longing for stable and fair trade, biopharmaceuticals and medical devices have been dragged into the $100 billion trade war between the U.S. and China, the world’s two largest economies. The ...

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    FDA HITS DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DRUG MANUFACTURING PLANT WITH WARNING LETTER

    Apr 03, 2018

    The FDA issued a warning letter to Labocont Industrial following an inspection last year and cited the company for not taking more concrete actions in its follow-up response to the agency. During the inspection conducted last June, the agency found Labocont wasn’t separating the production of ...

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    CADILA HEALTHCARE SAYS FDA INSPECTION AT AHMEDABAD FACILITY HAD NO OBSERVATIONS

    Mar 29, 2018

    Indian drugmaker Cadila Healthcare said a recent FDA inspection of its topical manufacturing facility at Changodar, Ahmedabad, resulted in no observations from the regulatory agency. The inspection was conducted from March 22 through Wednesday. Of the 10 ANDA approvals the company has received from ...

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    CUREVAC GRANTED PATENT FOR ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS TO PRODUCE RNA

    Mar 29, 2018

    CureVac, a biopharmaceutical maker focused on mRNA-based drugs, was granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its manufacturing process for producing RNA. The company said it is the first in its field to get a patent for the entire manufacturing process of in vitro transcribed RNA...

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    AS HEMOPHILIA MARKET HEATS UP, ROCHE CONFIRMS 5 HEMLIBRA PATIENT DEATHS

    Mar 28, 2018

    After hemophilia patient groups this week posted information about deaths during treatment with Roche's Hemlibra, the drugmaker confirmed that five patients using the drug have died. None of the deaths was determined to be linked to the drug, a Roche spokesperson said. One patient who received H...

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    BRISTOL-MYERS' OPDIVO-YERVOY COMBO SCORES AGAIN AT FDA, THIS TIME IN COLORECTAL CANCER

    Mar 27, 2018

    Last August, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo nabbed an indication in certain types of colorectal cancer. And Tuesday, it took a step toward nabbing that indication again but this time alongside fellow BMS immunotherapy Yervoy. U.S. regulators granted the Opdivo-Yervoy pairing priority review sta...

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    INVESTORS IN ABBVIE, LILLY, AMGEN AND MORE SET TO VOTE ON EXECUTIVE PAY, DRUG PRICING

    Mar 26, 2018

    Despite resistance from top pharma companies, shareholders are set to vote this spring on resolutions seeking more information about potential links between executive pay and rising drug prices. Several drug industry players resisted the proxy vote, but the SEC ruled in favor of the Interfaith Cente...

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    WILL PFIZER SPIN OFF CONSUMER HEALTH NOW THAT ITS PROSPECTIVE BUYERS HAVE BALKED?

    Mar 26, 2018

    Pfizer’s top two bidders may have both walked away from a consumer health deal last week, but that doesn’t mean the pharma giant doesn’t still have options. On the contrary, it’s got one path left to unloading the unit, and it’s one the company’s plenty familiar w...

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    ROCHE'S HEMLIBRA, GILEAD'S BIKTARVY TOP PHARMA'S BLOCKBUSTER 2018 LAUNCHES: REPORT

    Mar 23, 2018

    Despite concerns that payers are clamping down on new drug launches, a dozen new meds are slated to reel in blockbuster sales in the coming years, according to a new report. In fact, Clarivate Analytics expects pharma to launch more blockbusters in 2018 than in any year in recent history. The analys...

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    SUN, PIVOTING TO SPECIALTY PHARMA, WINS PSORIASIS NOD FOR ILUMYA. CAN IT HANG WITH J&J?

    Mar 22, 2018

    Sun Pharma’s $80 million psoriasis licensing deal with Merck & Co. just paid off with an FDA approval. But now, another challenge begins: The new med will go up against established psoriasis player Johnson & Johnson. The FDA has officially green-lighted the Indian drugmaker’s Ilu...

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    AMPLYX PHARMA’S ANTIFUNGAL PRODUCT CANDIDATE, APX001 RECEIVES FOURTH QIDP DESIGNATION FROM US FDA

    Mar 21, 2018

    Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, a company developing first-in-class products for life-threatening infections, including, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted a fourth Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) designation to APX001, the company’s lead antifungal produc...

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    ABBVIE, IMF TO PARTNER ON CANCER RESEARCH

    Mar 21, 2018

    "There are significant knowledge gaps about multiple myeloma, and among these gaps is the role of genetic mutations in response to treatment, and the related outcomes for patients," said Brian G.M. Durie, MD, IMF chairman, in a company press release. "This study has the potential to p...

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    NANOLOGICA AND STERLING PARTNER ON SILICA PRODUCTION

    Mar 21, 2018

    Nanologica AB has entered into a service agreement with contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Sterling Pharma Solutions for the large-scale production of silica particles. Nanologica specializes in the development and manufacture of silica for application in drug delivery and ch...

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    NOVARTIS WAS 'BUYING SCRIPTS,' FEDS SAY, AS DOCTORS AND REPS PREPARE TO TESTIFY IN KICKBACKS CASE

    Mar 21, 2018

    Novartis sales reps and doctors plan to testify in a long-running kickbacks case, court filings show, as prosecutors marshal evidence they say will show the company traded fancy dinners and entertainment and in some cases, jobs for physicians' relatives to increase prescription numbers. The doct...

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    ASIA PHARMA EXPO TO BOOST BANGLA PHARMA MANUFACTURING STANDARDS

    Mar 17, 2018

    More than 670 exhibiting companies representing 31 countries worldwide displayed their latest technologies at the three-day Asia Pharma Expo 2018 (APE 2018) & Asia Lab Expo 2018 held at Dhaka, Bangladesh, from February 8 to 10, 2018. According to experts, the expo will help take the pharma manuf...

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    PRESCRIBED READING: NEURO'S COMEBACK TOUR

    Mar 16, 2018

    Biopharma is a complex, rapidly evolving industry that is highly regulated and closely watched and that means there is constant news. Here's a closer look at the clinical trials, M&A, cool science and regulations that are driving the industry this week. It was all about the neuroscience spac...

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    NOVEL USES FOR ORAL SOLID DOSES DRIVING LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

    Mar 15, 2018

    With few potential blockbuster drugs in the pharma pipeline right now, drug companies are increasingly looking at other options to meet the needs of patients and increase revenue in the oral solid dosage (OSD) arena. Current areas of exploration include novel drug combinations, oral delivery of larg...

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    USE OF HIV-PREVENTION DRUG GROWS, BUT LAGS AMONG NON-WHITES

    Mar 15, 2018

    Eric Russell, 24, recently joined a health support group for young Latino and black gay men, where he learned about the HIV-prevention pill known as PrEP. He resisted the medication at first, convinced he didn’t need it and fearful that taking it would stigmatize him. But after Russell learned...

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    OPIOID MAKER FUNDS EFFORTS TO FIGHT ADDICTION: IS IT ‘BLOOD MONEY’ OR CHARITY?

    Mar 14, 2018

    A program to give naloxone overdose-antidote kits and training to front-line officers. Funding for pill disposal boxes in pharmacies, clinics and police stations across North Carolina. A radio campaign in Connecticut warning of the dangers of opioid abuse. A new medicine to treat opioid-induced cons...

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    OREGON, THE LATEST STATE TO TACKLE HIGH DRUG PRICES, PUSHES THROUGH TRANSPARENCY LAW

    Mar 14, 2018

    Pharma has suffered another defeat in the state-by-state war over drug prices. On Tuesday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill that seeks to fight high costs and bring transparency to pharmaceutical pricing. Oregon's HB 4005 requires drugmakers to report R&D and marketing costs, profits and...

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    SANOFI, REGENERON TO MAKE PRALUENT MORE ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE FOR PATIENTS WITH GREATEST HEALTH RISK AND UNMET NEED

    Mar 13, 2018

    To help ensure more affordable and timely access to patients most in need, Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, will offer US payers that agree to reduce burdensome access barriers for high-risk patients a further reduced net price for Praluent (alirocumab) injection in alignment with a new value a...

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    AZ ANNOUNCES RESULTS DELAY FOR KEY LUNG CANCER TRIAL

    Mar 12, 2018

    The Phase III MYSTIC trial is evaluating Imfinzi (durvalumab) as monotherapy and in combination with tremelimumab, versus platinum-based standard-of-care (SoC) chemotherapy in previously-untreated patients with metastatic (Stage IV) 1st-line non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The drug giant had bee...

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    SANOFI, REGENERON TO CUT PRICE OF PRALUENT

    Mar 12, 2018

    Data from the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES trial presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual scientific session (ACC) show that high-risk patients who added Praluent (alirocumab) Injection to maximally-tolerated statins experienced significantly fewer major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) ...

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    KSPC EMBARKS ON PRINT & TV ADVT CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT DANGERS OF SELLING DRUGS BY UNQUALIFIED PERSONS AT DRUG STORES

    Mar 12, 2018

    In order to highlight the dangers of selling drugs by unqualified persons in a pharmacy outlet, the Karnataka State Pharmacy Council (KSPC) is approaching the public directly through advertisements in print and electronic media. This is to educate them on the need for qualified pharmacist to be pres...

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    RISING HEALTH COSTS, SOARING DRUG PRICES, CONFUSING BILLS! WHAT’S A CONSUMER TO DO?

    Mar 09, 2018

    What should you do when you get a four-figure hospital bill? Are there any simple ways to bring down health costs? Kaiser Health News correspondent Shefali Luthra tackled these and other questions in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” chat on Friday. The takeaways: Health care prices are part of...

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    PFIZER CENTREONE RELEASES FIRST GREEN-CHEMISTRY-DRIVEN API

    Mar 08, 2018

    Pfizer CentreOne, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), has introduced Enviero progesterone to its contract customers. The API is made via a proprietary synthesis that significantly reduces waste, greenhouse gas emissio...

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    UK PM SIGNALS INTENT TO REMAIN WITH EMA

    Mar 05, 2018

    Prime Minister Theresa May has unveiled the government’s desire for the UK to remain part of the European Medicines Agency following its departure from the European Union. In a key speech on Brexit she revealed that the government will “explore with the EU the terms on which the UK could...

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    AZ’ FORXIGA TO BE REVIEWED FOR DIABETES TYPE I

    Mar 05, 2018

    The European Medicines Agency has accepted AstraZeneca’s filing for Forxiga as a treatment for diabetes type I. The submission contains data from the Phase III DEPICT clinical programme, which showed that Forxiga, when given as an oral adjunct to adjustable insulin in patients with inadequatel...

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    DOUBTING THE WONDER DRUG

    Mar 03, 2018

    Baclofen is a drug used to treat an alcohol use disorder. It has long been debuted as the "Wonder Drug" for several of its unique characteristics. For one, baclofen is secreted from the kidneys, not the liver which is particularly advantageous to individuals suffering from liver disease du...

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    CAN EARLY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES AVOID LATER-STAGE DISASTERS?

    Mar 02, 2018

    Pfizer CentreOne, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), has introduced Enviero progesterone to its contract customers. The API is made via a proprietary synthesis that significantly reduces waste, greenhouse gas emissio...

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    THE 24 HOUR FLU-KILLING DRUG

    Mar 01, 2018

    Influenza, mainly known as the “flu”, is a respiratory illness caused by a virus. The flu virus usually flourishes during the winter season affecting many people who are not protected. Every year, there is a new virus strain and every year individuals are recommended to vaccinate themsel...

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    RECORD NUMBER BENEFITTING FROM NHS TALKING THERAPIES

    Feb 27, 2018

    A record number of people are recovering from mental ill health after accessing talking therapies on the NHS, new figures show. The annual report on NHS England’s Improving Access to Talking Therapies (IAPT) programme shows that half of those completing a course of treatment recovered from the...

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    TWENTY PERCENT OF ANTIBIOTICS PRESCRIBED INAPPROPRIATELY

    Feb 27, 2018

    At least 20 percent of all antibiotic prescriptions written in primary care in England are inappropriate, estimates research published by Public Health England (PHE) in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Researchers found that the majority of antibiotic prescriptions in English primary care ...

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    AFRICAN UNION TO COME UP WITH AFRICAN MEDICINE AGENCY TO HARMONISE DRUG REGULATION OF MEMBER STATES

    Feb 26, 2018

    African Union (AU) is coming up with an African Medicine Agency (AMA) which will be tasked with cooperation and strengthening of healthcare activities to harmonize medicine regulation of member states of the Union in line with European Medicine Agency (EMA). There are 55 countries in African Union. ...

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    REGULATORS TO USHER IN EFFECTIVE PHARMACOVIGILANCE WITH SENSITIZATION OF MAHS ON GOOD PV PRACTICES

    Feb 26, 2018

    To help pharma industry develop pharmacovigilance system as per the good pharmacovigilance practices, the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) will soon roll out a series of workshops in Mumbai and Ahmedabad considering the fact that Market Authorisation Holders (MAHs) and regulators have to jointl...

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    TEACHING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO IGNORE FOOD ALLERGENS

    Feb 22, 2018

    An allergic reaction of any kind is a result of the immune system responding to an otherwise harmless allergen as if it were a pathogen. However, sending the right messages to the immune system can change the way it operates, as Duke University scientists found in their new study aimed at reducing t...

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    BOOSTING HYDROGEN ELECTROCHEMICAL PRODUCTION-WITH EGGS

    Feb 22, 2018

    We are not talking about cracking open eggs and put them into hydrogen fuel cells (not even during Easter). Chemical researchers from the Osaka City University (OCU) have reported their innovative idea of producing carbon-free hydrogen using a photocatalytic matrix made of an egg white ingredient, l...

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    DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING DIFFERENTIATES BENIGN BREAST LESIONS FROM MALIGNANCIES

    Feb 20, 2018

    An MRI breast imaging technique that requires no contrast agent, combined with sophisticated data analysis, could reduce the number of unnecessary breast biopsies, according to a new study. Researchers recently studied an alternative approach that eliminates the need for contrast agents in some case...

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    SHIRE, MICROSOFT AND EURODIS FORM RARE DISEASES ALLIANCE

    Feb 20, 2018

    According to the parties, the “long road to diagnosis” is key issue that affects the health, longevity and well-being for rare disease patients and their families. The Global Commission to End the Diagnostic Odyssey for Children is a multi-disciplinary group of experts who will develop a...

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    SMC APPROVES NHS FUNDING FOR UCB’S VIMPAT IN CHILDREN

    Feb 20, 2018

    The Scottish Medicines Consortium has accepted Vimpat (lacosamide) for NHS use as an adjunctive therapy for partial-onset (focal) seizures with or without secondary generalisation in children aged four years and older. In Scotland there are around 55,000 people living with epilepsy but, despite its ...

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    PSORIASIS DRUG FOUND TO REDUCE AORTIC VASCULAR INFLAMMATION

    Feb 19, 2018

    Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, led a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study and found patients who took the drug ustekinumab had a 19 percent improvement in aortic in...

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    HEROIN VACCINE BLOCKS LETHAL OVERDOSE

    Feb 15, 2018

    Scientists have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe and effective vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block lethal overdose of the drug. Their research shows how a new anti-heroin formulation that is safe in animal models remains stable at room temperature for at least 30 days....

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    CABOZANTINIB SHOWS PROMISE AS FIRST LINE TREATMENT FOR DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER

    Feb 15, 2018

    A kinase inhibitor called cabozantinib could be a viable therapy option for patients with metastatic, radioactive iodine-resistant thyroid cancer. In a trial initiated and led by the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, tumours shrunk in 34 ou...

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    SCOTLAND ENDORSES FIVE NEW THERAPIES FOR NHS USE

    Feb 13, 2018

    The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted MSD’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of advanced bladder cancer following consideration through SMC’s Patient and Clinician Engagement (PACE) process for medicines used to treat very rare and end of life conditions.

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    MSD’S VERUBECESTAT FAILS AGAIN IN ALZHEIMER’S TRIAL

    Feb 13, 2018

    Five new medicines are to be funded by the NHS in Scotland, bringing new treatment options for cancer, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as a new contraceptive. The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has accepted MSD’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the treatment of advanced ...

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    RE-CLASSIFICATION OF MSME CRITERIA FROM INVESTMENT TO TURNOVER WILL BRING IN MORE TRANSPARENCY

    Feb 12, 2018

    The Karnataka Drugs and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (KDPMA) sees that the Union government's effort to make a change in the criteria for classifying micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from investment in plant and machinery to annual turnover would make the process more tran...

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    VIIV HEALTHCARE FILES PATENT INFRINGEMENT LITIGATION AGAINST GILEAD SCIENCES OVER BICTEGRAVIR IN US & CANADA

    Feb 12, 2018

    ViiV Healthcare, the global specialist HIV company majority-owned by GSK, with Pfizer Inc. and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, has filed patent infringement litigation against Gilead Sciences Inc. over bictegravir in the United States and Canada. The United States case is filed in the US District ...

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    V CLINBIO ACQUIRES CELLIX TO GAIN PATENTED DRUG DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY

    Feb 09, 2018

    V ClinBio, a biopharmaceutical company focused on converting existing compounds into new therapeutics for treating immune and other related diseases, announced the acquisition of a 49.98% equity stake in Cellix Bio, a drug design and development biopharmaceutical company.
    The acquisition stre...

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    J&J AND THERAVANCE IN $1-BILLION DEAL FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

    Feb 07, 2018

    The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) announced that they have entered into a worldwide collaboration with Theravance Biopharma Ireland, a subsidiary of Theravance Biopharma, to develop TD-1473, an oral, gastrointestinal (GI) restricted pan-Janus kinase (JAK) inhibi...

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    PHARMA WADES INTO THE WORLD OF VIRTUAL REALITY MARKETING

    Feb 07, 2018

    The scene opens with ambulance alarms sounding. Emily, a bicyclist struck by a car, lies on the pavement as a team of EMT workers maneuver her onto a backboard. Viewers watch it all through the eyes of one of those workers, Han, a migraine sufferer. His vision slowly gets blurrier and the whooping o...

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    ROBOTIC METHOD ISOLATES HIGH-PRODUCING CELL LINES FOR HIV VACCINE PRODUCTION

    Feb 06, 2018

    Research on HIV over the past decade has led to many promising ideas for vaccines to prevent infection by the AIDS virus, but very few candidate vaccines have been tested in clinical trials. One reason for this is the technical difficulty of manufacturing vaccines based on the envelope proteins of t...

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    NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR ACCELERATED WOUND HEALING DISCOVERED

    Feb 06, 2018

    Researchers have found a new way of accelerating wound healing. The technology and the mode of action involve using lactic acid bacteria as vectors to produce and deliver a human chemokine on site in the wounds. The research group is the first in the world to have developed the concept for topical u...

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    BLOOD TEST DETECTS EARLY STAGES OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

    Feb 05, 2018

    Scientists have developed and validated a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, with the potential to massively ramp up the pace of Alzheimer’s disease drug trials. Scientists have teamed up to develop and validate a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, with the potential to massively...

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    BLOOD TEST DETECTS EARLY STAGES OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

    Feb 05, 2018

    Scientists have developed and validated a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, with the potential to massively ramp up the pace of Alzheimer’s disease drug trials. Scientists have teamed up to develop and validate a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease, with the potential to massively...

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    BIOPHARMA IN CHARTS: KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM Q4 EARNINGS

    Feb 05, 2018

    Biopharma in Charts aims to complement BioPharma Dive's daily news coverage with a data-driven look at a few of the top trends affecting the industry. This edition focuses on key takeaways from fourth quarter earnings, including strong returns from cancer drugs, growth drivers living up to the n...

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    NICE BACKS ROCHE’S PERJETA FOR BREAST CANCER

    Feb 01, 2018

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued a final green light securing routine NHS funding for Roche’s Perjeta in patients with a certain type of breast cancer. The guidelines follow a confidential commercial agreement for Perjeta (pertuzumab) agreed between NHS England ...


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    AS STATES TARGET HIGH DRUG PRICES, PHARMA TARGETS STATE LAWMAKERS

    Feb 01, 2018

    It was expected to be a perfunctory statehouse meeting — three lobbyists and a legislator discussing a proposal to educate Louisiana doctors about the price of drugs they prescribe. The bill seemed like a no-brainer in a country where even decades-old medicines can cost thousands and consumers...


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    MICROBUBBLES MAKE BREAST CANCER MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO RADIATION THERAPY

    Jan 31, 2018

    Bursting oxygen-filled microbubbles in breast cancer makes tumours three times more sensitive to radiation therapy in preliminary tests with animal models of the disease Injecting breast cancer with oxygen-filled microbubbles makes tumours three-times more sensitive to radiation therapy and improves...

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    BLOOD VESSEL-ON-A-CHIPS SHOW ANTI-CANCER DRUG EFFECTS IN HUMAN CELLS

    Jan 30, 2018

    Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo, CNRS and INSERM, report a new organ-on-a-chip technology for the study of blood vessel formation and drugs targeting this event. The technology recreates a human blood vessel and shows how new capillaries grow from a ...


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    UK PHARMA R&D PIPELINE ‘STRONGEST IN EUROPE’

    Jan 29, 2018

    The report, released by UK industry group the BioIndustry Association (BIA) and Informa Pharma Intelligence, shows that the UK held the largest number of clinical trials in Europe in 2017, with 351 pre-clinical trials, 43 in Phase I, 70 in Phase II, and 15 in Phase III. The next highest, France, hel...


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    ACCUSED OF STEALING TEVA SECRETS, APOTEX CEO EXITS ABRUPTLY EVEN AS FOUNDER'S DEATH RULED HOMICIDE

    Jan 29, 2018

    The turmoil at Canada’s largest homegrown pharma company, generics maker Apotex, continues with the resignation of CEO Jeremy Desai even as the company deals with the fallout from the murders of the company’s founder and his wife. Apotex said on Friday that Desai had resigned and was bei...

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    CARDIOME PHARMA RECEIVES EXTENDED INDICATIONS FOR AGGRASTAT IN CHINA

    Jan 25, 2018

    Canada-based Cardiome Pharma has received expanded indications from the Chinese Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) for the use of its Aggrastat (tirofiban hydrochloride) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients intended for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The ag...


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    BIOCRYST AND IDERA SIGN MERGER AGREEMENT FOR RARE DISEASE DRUGS

    Jan 24, 2018

    US-based BioCryst Pharmaceuticals and Idera Pharmaceuticals have entered a definitive merger agreement focused on the development and commercialisation of medicines for patients with rare diseases. To be renamed and led by Idera CEO Vincent Milano upon closing, the combined entity is set to leverage...


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    UK TO OFFER FUNDING FOR NEW MEDICINE MANUFACTURING CENTRES

    Jan 23, 2018

    The UK Government is set to offer a new grant through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) to create new manufacturing facilities to accelerate drug development. Announced by new Universities and Science Minister Sam Gyimah, the £70m funding will also be utilized for new medical proje...


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    NEW RESEARCH PAPER SHOWS THAT ASTRAZENECA HAS ACHIEVED GREATER THAN FOUR-FOLD IMPROVEMENT IN R&D PRODUCTIVITY

    Jan 19, 2018

    In a research paper published today by Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, AstraZeneca's IMED Biotech Unit documents a more than four-fold improvement in R&D productivity following significant revision of its approach and adoption of a '5R framework' - right target, right patient, right t...


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    SANDOZ ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE GLOBAL COLLABORATION WITH BIOCON ON NEXT-GENERATION BIOSIMILARS

    Jan 18, 2018

    Sandoz, a Novartis division and the global leader in biosimilars, today announced a global partnership with Asia's premier biopharmaceuticals company, Biocon, to develop, manufacture and commercialize multiple biosimilars in immunology and oncology for patients worldwide. Under the terms of the ...


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    MERCK TO DEVELOP ONCOLOGY DRUGS WITH CANCER RESEARCH UK AND ICR

    Jan 18, 2018

    Merck has entered a multi-project collaboration and licensing deal with Cancer Research UK and the Institute of Cancer Research, London (ICR) for the discovery and development of new drugs to treat cancer. The entities will collaborate on three different research projects. The scope of the R&D a...


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    HOSPITALS, SICK OF DRUG SHORTAGES, TAKE MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS

    Jan 18, 2018

    Sick and tired of dealing with generic drug shortages and unpredictable price increases, five large U.S. health systems are taking an unusual step: They're forming their own nonprofit generic drugmaker. Representing more than 450 hospitals, nonprofit groups Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension, S...

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    NEW RESEARCH COULD SIGNIFICANTLY ACCELERATE DRUG DISCOVERY

    Jan 17, 2018

    Many drugs work by inhibiting protein enzymes associated with a particular disease. Unfortunately, the same drugs can inhibit protein enzymes unrelated to the disease, resulting in harmful side effects. One potential solution is to better identify structural features that determine a protein enzyme&...


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    CABOMETYX TRIAL HALTED EARLY ON SUCCESS IN LIVER CANCE

    Jan 17, 2018

    A late-stage trial assessing Ipsen and Exelixis’ Cabometyx in advanced liver cancer has been halted early after a significant improvement in overall survival was observed.

    Results of the Phase III CELESTIAL trial showed a median overall survival of 10.2 months in patients taking...


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    US EXPANDS SCOPE OF BI’S LUNG CANCER DRUG GILOTRIF

    Jan 16, 2018

    US regulators have approved a supplemental New Drug Application for Boehringer Ingelheim’s lung cancer drug Gilotrif for first-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have non-resistant epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFRs). The new label ...


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    MEDTRONIC RECEIVES FDA CLEARANCE FOR RIPTIDE(TM) ASPIRATION SYSTEM

    Jan 16, 2018

    Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today announced that the company's Neurovascular business unit received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance of the Riptide(TM) Aspiration System, adding a valuable tool to the Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS) product portfolio. The Riptide Aspiration System is ...


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    FDA APPROVES FIRST TREATMENT FOR BREAST CANCER WITH A CERTAIN INHERITED GENETIC MUTATION

    Jan 12, 2018

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Lynparza (olaparib tablets) to include the treatment of patients with certain types of breast cancer that have spread (metastasized) and whose tumors have a specific inherited (germline) genetic mutation, making it the first dr...


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    NHS ENGLAND TO FUND MORE GP-BASED PHARMACISTS

    Jan 11, 2018

    NHS England has approved funding for more than 160 additional GP surgery-based clinical pharmacists able to offer expert medical advice and treatment to patients. Including previously approved posts, the move will increase the number of clinical pharmacists in general practice from around 580 to ove...


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    PSYCHIATRY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD--FDA APPROVES DIGITAL SENSOR IN ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUG TO ENFORCE PRESCRIPTION COMPLIANCE

    Jan 11, 2018

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an antipsychotic, aripiprazole, as the first drug to contain a "digital ingestion tracking system" that can tell whether the drug has been taken a technology that even a leading U.S. psychiatrist likened to "a biomedical Big Brother.&...


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    BEACON ENTERS DRUG DISCOVERY COLLABORATION WITH JANSSEN

    Jan 08, 2018

    US-based drug discovery firm Beacon Discovery has entered a multi-year collaboration agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals for small molecule compounds to treat metabolic diseases. The partnership is set to discover and develop compounds for various undisclosed G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) tar...


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    PFIZER, NOVARTIS AND MORE POST PRICE HIKES ON DOZENS OF DRUGS, BUT ABBVIE’S IS WORTH THE MOST

    Jan 04, 2018

    It's not just specialty drugmakers raising prices in recent days. Big Pharma has pushed through a spate of increases, and while all of them are sub-10% the cap some companies have adopted—some of them will cost payers and consumers plenty. A single price increase, in fact, could add more t...

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    ALLERGAN, TEVA AND OTHERS START 2018 WITH PRICE HIKES: ANALYST

    Jan 02, 2018

    A New Year often rings in higher drug prices, and many top drugmakers marked the occasion in just that way this year. List price increases hit dozens of drugs, including staple drugs and blockbuster hopefuls. None of the increases, however, topped the 10% price-hike cap that's been trendy in pha...

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    PROTALIX BIOTHERAPEUTICS’ PRX-102 GRANTED ORPHAN DRUG DESIGNATION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    Dec 27, 2017

    Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins expressed through its proprietary plant cell-based expression system, ProCellEx, announced today that the European Commission granted Orphan Drug Designatio...


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    EU OKS FIRST-LINE USE OF ROCHE’S LUNG CANCER DRUG ALECENSA

    Dec 21, 2017

    Roche’s Alecesna has been cleared for use in Europe as a first-line treatment for ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), offering a new option for patients newly diagnosed with the disease. The approval is based on data from the Phase III ALEX study, which showed that the drug signif...


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    ARTHRITIS DRUG SHOWS POTENTIAL IN SKIN CANCER

    Dec 19, 2017

    The effectiveness of melanoma treatment could be boosted if combined with a well-known drug for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), indicates early UK research. Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) found that combining the RA therapy leflunomide with the melanoma treatment selumetinib almost com...


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    US FDA ACCEPTS REGULATORY SUBMISSION FOR TAGRISSO IN 1ST-LINE EGFR-MUTATED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER

    Dec 18, 2017

    AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for the use of Tagrisso (osimertinib), a third-generation, irreversible epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) with clinical activity ag...


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    US CLEARS SANOFI’S ‘FOLLOW-ON’ INSULIN ADMELOG

    Dec 12, 2017

    The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Sanofi's Admelog, the first follow-on biologic version of Eli Lilly’s Humalog, to manage mealtime blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. Admelog is a short-acting insulin approved on the back of a clinical development programme involving...


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    PITTING PATHOGENS AGAINST EACH OTHER COULD PREVENT DRUG RESISTANCE EMERGING

    Dec 12, 2017

    Limiting the nutrient resources that pathogens depend on for replication could prevent the emergence of drug resistance, according to research findings. In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have taken advantage of the competition that occurs between hos...


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    NOVARTIS’ KYMRIAH SHOWS DURABLE RESPONSE IN BLOOD CANCER

    Dec 11, 2017

    A new analysis of trial data on Novartis’ CAR-T therapy Kymriah presented at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting show that the drug sustained complete responses at six months in adults with a difficult to treat a form of blood cancer. CAR-T offers a new treatment appro...


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    US SCIENTISTS FIND POTENTIAL THERAPY FOR EBOLA VIRUS INFECTION

    Dec 11, 2017

    Scientists from SRI International and Collaborations Pharmaceuticals in the US have identified a potential new inhibitor, tilorone dihydrochloride, for infection by Ebola virus. The researchers used machine learning methods to find the immunomodulatory drug, which is reported to have demonstrated si...


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    APHIOS PHARMA RAISING EQUITY CAPITAL TO DEVELOP FDA-APPROVED, CANNABIS-BASED DRUG FOR OPIOID ADDICTION

    Dec 08, 2017

    Aphios Pharma today announced plans to raise equity capital from investors to develop an FDA-approved, cannabis-based drug for treating opioid addiction, a highly unmet Central Nervous System (CNS) disorder. Opioid addiction has grown to epidemic proportions.  Current statistics indicate that h...


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    WORLD PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEM MARKET - OPPORTUNITIES & FORECASTS TO 2022 - RESEARCH AND MARKETS

    Dec 08, 2017

    The "World Pharmacy Information System Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 - 2022" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. Pharmacy information system plays an important role in minimizing the errors that often take place when dispensing medication. Besides this...


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    SHALBY LIMITED IPO SEES TEPID RESPONSE FROM INVESTORS ON DAY 1

    Dec 07, 2017

    Shalby Limited, Ahmedabad-based multi-speciality hospital chain, on Tuesday launched it's initial public offering (IPO)  received a tepid response from investors during the day.
    At 1526 hours, as per NSE data, the company received bids of 25,91,700 equity shares, subscribing by just ...

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    SANOFI EXPLORES COMBINATION TREATMENTS FOR MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN NEW LATE-STAGE TRIALS

    Dec 07, 2017

    Sanofi has launched two new late-stage clinical studies to determine if an investigational biologic called isatuximab, when used in combination with other commonly used cancer treatments, might be an effective treatment option for certain people with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer related to ...


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    SCIENTISTS FROM SRI INTERNATIONAL AND COLLABORATIONS PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. IDENTIFY POTENTIAL NEW EBOLA VIRUS THERAPY

    Dec 07, 2017

    In the search for drugs that are effective against Ebola virus, scientists from SRI International and Collaborations Pharmaceuticals, Inc., led a study that used machine learning methods to identify tilorone dihydrochloride as a potential new inhibitor of viral infection. The low molecular weight im...


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    INTERIM RESULTS OF FIRST-EVER GLOBAL SURVEY SHOW PEOPLE WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES UNDERESTIMATE THEIR CARDIOVASCULAR RISK

    Dec 06, 2017

    Today the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) presented the interim results of the first ever multi-country online survey on CVD risk awareness and knowledge among people living with type 2 diabetes, indicating low levels of awareness and limited dialogue between patients and healthcare professi...


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    FDA ACCEPTS NEW DRUG APPLICATION (NDA) FOR BUPRENORPHINE SUBLINGUAL SPRAY FROM INSYS THERAPEUTICS

    Dec 06, 2017

    INSYS Therapeutics, Inc. (“INSYS” or “the company”), announced today that its New Drug Application (NDA) for a novel formulation of buprenorphine as a sublingual spray for the management of moderate-to-severe acute pain has been accepted for filing by the U.S. Food and Drug A...


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    GIVE HONEY AND LEMON, NOT OTC COUGH MEDICINES, TO CHILDREN WITH COUGHS, SAYS LEADING PAEDIATRICIAN

    Dec 05, 2017

    Children with troublesome coughs should be treated with ‘old-fashioned’ honey and lemon rather than over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicines, a leading paediatrician has advised. When taken in large doses, many OTC cough and cold medicines and medications can be toxic or have adverse effec...


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    AMPEL BIOSOLUTIONS, HORIZON PHARMA PLC, AND LUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE PARTNER ON UNIQUE CLINICAL TRIAL FOR PATIENTS WITH LUPUS

    Dec 05, 2017

    AMPEL BioSolutions, a leading biomedical research firm based in Charlottesville, Va., Horizon Pharma plc and The Lupus Research Alliance today announced the launch of the RIFLE (RAYOS (delayed release prednisone) Inhibits Fatigue in Lupus Erythematosus) trial for patients with Systemic Lupus Erythem...


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    FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE CLINICS OF ALASKA OFFERS NEW ED TREATMENT

    Dec 04, 2017

    Functional Medicine Clinics of Alaska is pleased to announce they now offer GAINSWave™! This breakthrough noninvasive medical therapy uses low-intensity shockwave therapy to enhance sexual performance and to treat Erectile Dysfunction symptoms. As men age, the vessels in their penis weaken con...


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    DEALS THIS WEEK: XIANGXUE PHARMACEUTICAL, ASTRAZENECA, VANC PHARMACEUTICALS

    Dec 01, 2017

    Xiangxue Pharmaceutical has raised CNY500m ($75.56m) through the second tranche of a public offering of corporate bonds.


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    RXI PHARMACEUTICALS AND THE CENTER FOR CANCER IMMUNE THERAPY AT HERLEV HOSPITAL ANNOUNCE RESEARCH COLLABORATION

    Dec 01, 2017

    RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: RXII) a clinical-stage company developing a new class of RNAi-based therapeutics and the Center for Cancer Immune Therapy (CCIT) at Herlev Hospital.


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    FDA APPROVES FIRST BIOSIMILAR FOR THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN BREAST AND STOMACH CANCERS

    Dec 01, 2017

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Ogivri (trastuzumab-dkst) as a biosimilar to Herceptin (trastuzumab) for the treatment of patients with breast or metastatic stomach cancer (gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma) whose tumors overexpress the HER2 gene (HER2+). Ogivr...


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    NICE ASKS MERCK TO SUBMIT CANCER DRUGS FUND PROPOSAL FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY DRUG

    Nov 30, 2017

    The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has asked the pharmaceutical company, Merck, to submit a Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) proposal for its immunotherapy drug avelumab (Bavencio; Merck).


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    COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS IN WALES TO HAVE ACCESS TO GP RECORDS BY MARCH 2018

    Nov 30, 2017

    All pharmacies with access to the Choose Pharmacy IT system in Wales will be able to access the Welsh GP record by March 2018, it was announced at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Wales Medicines Safety Conference on 29 November 2017.


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    AZ TEAMS UP WITH G1 ON LUNG CANCER COMBO

    Nov 29, 2017

    AstraZeneca has signed a deal with US group G1 Therapeutics to test the potential of a new combination therapy for lung cancer.


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    SCOTLAND’S PHARMA INDUSTRY ‘A DRIVING FORCE’ FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

    Nov 28, 2017

    New analysis highlights that Scotland’s pharmaceutical industry “can be a driving force” for long-term sustainable economic growth, says the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry Scotland.


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    HIGHMARK HEALTH'S VITAL INNOVATION PROGRAM VALIDATES EFFECTIVE DRUG-FREE TREATMENT FOR PANIC ATTACKS

    Nov 28, 2017

    Highmark Health, Allegheny Health Network and Palo Alto Health Sciences, a manufacturer of Freespira, today announced the results of a pilot program completed through Highmark Health's VITAL Program.


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    UK TRIAL ASSESSING AZ’ AZD1775 IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER

    Nov 27, 2017

    A clinical trial testing AstraZeneca’s experimental drug AZD1775, an inhibitor of the cell cycle regulating protein WEE1, in patients with head and neck cancer has now launched in the UK.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13941394

    TEEWINOT, A GLOBAL LEADER IN PHARMACEUTICAL CANNABINOID PRODUCTION, TO PRESENT AT CBI'S BIOPHARMA FORUM ON CANNABIS-BASED THERAPIE

    Nov 27, 2017

    Teewinot Life Sciences Corporation ("Teewinot"), is an international cannabinoid biotechnology company focused on advanced pharmaceutical research and commercialization. Teewinot is a leader in the formulation, manufacturing.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13961396

    GSK, INNOVIVA SEEK TO EXPAND SCOPE OF TRELEGY ELLIPTA

    Nov 23, 2017

    GlaxoSmithKline and Innoviva have submitted new data to regulators in the US in support of expanding the label of Trelegy Ellipta in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13901390

    BAD NEWS FOR INNATE PHARMA AS BMS-BACKED DRUG STUMBLES

    Nov 23, 2017

    French biotech Innate Pharma says it can’t see a development path forward for its lead cancer drug lirilumab after another clinical trial miss. The Bristol-Myers Squibb-partnered checkpoint inhibitor, licensed in a $465m deal in 2011.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13921392

    AMERICAN HEALTH COUNCIL HONORS PAUL M. COLOMBANI, MD, FACS, FAAP AS “BEST IN MEDICINE”

    Nov 22, 2017

    Dr. Paul M. Colombani, Chairman of the Pediatric Surgery at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Robert Garrett Professor (Emeritus) of Pediatric.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13871387

    NOVARTIS' ORPHAN DRUG TASIGNA WINS EU EXPANDED INDICATION

    Nov 22, 2017

    Novartis has claimed another regulatory milestone for its chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) drug Tasigna (nilotinib), winning approval for its use to treat children in the EU.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13881388

    JANSSEN’S ZYTIGA APPROVED FOR EARLIER USE IN PROSTATE CANCER

    Nov 21, 2017

    European regulators are allowing earlier use of Janssen’s Zytiga in the treatment pathway for metastatic prostate cancer.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13831383

    NEW STUDY RESULTS SUPPORT USE OF DIVITUM FOR EVALUATION OF PANCREATIC CANCER

    Nov 21, 2017

    In collaboration with University of Heidelberg, Germany, results from a clinical study of pancreatic cancer is published in the Pancreas scientific journal. The results demonstrate that Biovica’s DiviTum assay can provide an accurate prognosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13841384

    ROCHE TO ACQUIRE VIEWICS, INC. TO PROVIDE DATA-DRIVEN LAB BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND ADD FURTHER DIGITAL CAPABILITIES ALONG THE LABORATORY VALUE CHAIN

    Nov 20, 2017

    Roche has announced an agreement with Viewics, Inc., a privately held software company focused on laboratory business analytics. Under the agreement, Roche is acquiring all shares of the company.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13781378

    2017 TECHNOLOGIES EMPOWERING DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT - RESEARCH AND MARKETS

    Nov 20, 2017

    The "Technologies Empowering Drug Discovery and Development" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering. This Drug Discovery TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides insights into new approaches fueling therapeutic advancements.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13801380

    CAN-FITE’S FORMER SUBSIDIARY OPHTHALIX SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES MERGER WITH WIZE PHARMA

    Nov 17, 2017

    Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd, a biotechnology company advancing a pipeline of proprietary small molecule drugs that address cancer, liver, and inflammatory diseases, today announced that its previously majority-owned subsidiary OphthaliX, Inc.


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    WUXI APPTEC ELECTED BY IQVIA STEM CELL CENTER TO SERVE AS GMP MANUFACTURER OF ADVANCED THERAPIES

    Nov 17, 2017

    WuXi AppTec (WuXi), a leading global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device open-access capability and technology platform company, announced that its Advanced Therapy Unit based in Philadelphia has been selected as a manufacturing partner for advanced therapies through the California Inst...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13761376

    FIRST DRUG WITH AN INGESTIBLE SENSOR APPROVED

    Nov 16, 2017

    The FDA has approved Abilify MyCite (Otsuka), tablets of aripiprazole embedded with an ingestible sensor that can record that the medication was taken. The tablet with the sensor is an attempt to help increase adherence to medication regimens.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13711371

    SONOMA PHARMACEUTICALS ANNOUNCES FDA APPROVAL OF EXPANDED INDICATION FOR ALEVICYN™ TO ADD ANTIMICROBIAL LANGUAGE

    Nov 16, 2017

    Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNOA, warrants SNOAW), a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and markets unique and effective solutions for the treatment of dermatological conditions and advanced tissue care.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13721372

    AZ’ FASENRA GETS US NOD FOR EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA

    Nov 15, 2017

    AstraZeneca’s biologic Fasenra has picked up its first global approval in the US as a treatment for severe, eosinophilic asthma, a difficult to treat a form of the condition.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13661366

    NOVARTIS, ASCP AND ACS JOIN FORCES TO FIGHT CANCER IN ETHIOPIA, UGANDA AND TANZANIA

    Nov 15, 2017

    Novartis, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) announced today they will work together to devise a common approach to improve access to cancer treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13681368

    EU PRIME STATUS FOR MEREO’S BRITTLE BONE DRUG

    Nov 14, 2017

    London, UK-based Mereo BioPharma’s experimental drug targeting brittle bone disease has been designated PRIME status by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Brittle bone disease, or osteoporosis imperfect (OI), is a rare genetic disorder characterized by fragile bones and reduced bone mass res...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13621362

    MEDICARE MONDAY: SAME BAD IDEAS CONTINUE TO THREATEN PART D AND BENEFICIARY ACCESS TO MEDICINES

    Nov 13, 2017

    Perhaps the biggest fact that is often overlooked in Part D is that there is already significant price negotiation in the program. Thanks to Part D’s competitive structure, large purchasers often negotiate steep discounts and rebates with prescription drug manufacturers.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13631363

    BIOTHERA PHARMACEUTICALS PRESENTS DATA BROADENING IMPRIME PGG MECHANISM OF ACTION

    Nov 13, 2017

    Biothera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today the presentation of clinical and preclinical research supporting the mechanism of action for the Company’s cancer immunotherapy Imprime PGG, which is currently being evaluated in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in multiple Pha...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13591359

    ARUP LABORATORIES AND APPLIED SPECTRAL IMAGING BRING MEDICAL INNOVATION TO PATHOLOGY

    Nov 13, 2017

    ARUP Laboratories, a national pathology reference laboratory, and Applied Spectral Imaging (ASI), a global leader in computer-assisted biomedical imaging, announced today they have completed a multi-year collaboration, leading to the launch of ASI's PathFusion™, a cutting-edge solution tha...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13601360

    SUNOVION ANNOUNCES FDA ACCEPTANCE FOR REVIEW OF NEW DRUG APPLICATION FOR DASOTRALINE FOR THE TREATMENT OF ADHD

    Nov 10, 2017

    Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Sunovion) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the New Drug Application (NDA) for dasotraline, a novel dual-acting dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (DNRI) being evaluated for the treatment of attention d...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13561356

    SUPER-RESOLUTION PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING COULD ALLOW SCIENTISTS TO WATCH BLOOD VESSELS WITH IMPROVED RESOLUTION

    Nov 09, 2017

    Researchers have reported an approach to photoacoustic imaging that offers a vastly improved resolution, setting the stage for detailed in vivo imaging of deep tissue. The technique is based on computational improvements, so it can be performed with existing imaging hardware, and thus could provide ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13521352

    SANOFI, PRINCIPIA AGREE TO DEVELOP MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS DRUG CANDIDATE

    Nov 09, 2017

    Sanofi will develop Principia Biopharma Inc.'s experimental oral treatment that shows promise in multiple sclerosis (MS) and, potentially, another central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Under the license agreement signed this week.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13531353

    REDHILL BIOPHARMA PRICES PUBLIC OFFERING OF ITS AMERICAN DEPOSITARY SHARES

    Nov 08, 2017

    RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange: RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on late clinical-stage development and commercialization of proprietary drugs for gastrointestinal and inflammatory diseases and cancer...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13471347

    NEURALSTEM STRENGTHENS EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM WITH APPOINTMENT OF DR. DAVID RECKER AS CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

    Nov 08, 2017

    Neuralstem, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for nervous system diseases, today announced the appointment of David Recker, MD, FACR, FACP, as Chief Medical Officer.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13481348

    SPARK THERAPEUTICS AND PFIZER AMEND LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR INVESTIGATIONAL SPK-9001 IN HEMOPHILIA B

    Nov 08, 2017

    Spark Therapeutics and Pfizer Inc. has entered into an amendment to their license agreement for SPK-9001, an investigational gene therapy for hemophilia B. Spark Therapeutics will enroll up to five additional participants in the current Phase 1/2 clinical trial who will receive SPK-9001 manufactured...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13491349

    AETNA INTRODUCES NEW LOW-COST PRESCRIPTION DRUG PLAN (PDP)

    Nov 07, 2017

    Aetna announced the launch of Aetna Medicare Rx® Select (PDP). This new, low-cost prescription drug plan is designed for active, cost-conscious consumers. The plan will be available beginning January 1, 2018, in 27 states2 and the District of Columbia.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13441344

    GSK’S R&D CHIEF TO LEAVE FOR UK GOV ROLE?

    Nov 06, 2017

    GlaxoSmithKline’s head of R&D Patrick Vallance is reportedly leaving the firm to take on the role of chief scientific advisor at the government. According to the Financial Times, which cited “two people briefed on the situation”, Vallance will also become head of the Government...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13391339

    CAN CANNABINOIDS BE USED TO TREAT CANCER?

    Nov 06, 2017

    When cannabinoids activate signaling pathways in cancer cells they can stimulate a cell death mechanism called apoptosis, unleashing a potent anti-tumor effect. Yet cannabinoids, which have also shown strong activity against human tumor tissue grown in animal models, have undergone minimal testing i...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13411341

    BASF TO ENTER MEDICAL FOODS MARKET IN THE US WITH DIEM LABS

    Nov 03, 2017

    As part of this agreement, BASF will use its scientific expertise and state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities to provide a first-to-the-market medical food product to patients with NAFLD. DIEM Labs will market the product to health care professionals in the U.S. and sell it through an online hub...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13361336

    AMGEN AND NOVARTIS ANNOUNCE EXPANDED COLLABORATION WITH BANNER ALZHEIMER'S INSTITUTE IN PIONEERING PREVENTION PROGRAM

    Nov 03, 2017

    Amgen and Novartis announced an expanded collaboration with the Banner Alzheimer's Institute (BAI) to initiate a new trial - the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative (API) Generation Study 2. This trial follows the launch of the Generation Study 1, and will determine whether the BACE1 inhibitor...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13381338

    US FDA GRANTS ORPHAN DRUG DESIGNATION FOR RETROTOPE’S RT001 IN THE TREATMENT OF PHOSPHOLIPASE 2G6 (PLA2G6)-ASSOCIATED NEURODEGENERATION

    Nov 02, 2017

    Retrotope announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) granted orphan drug designation for its chemically-modified polyunsaturated fatty acid drug (RT001) for the treatment of PLA2G6 associated neurodegeneration (PLAN).


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13311331

    UROGEN PHARMA APPOINTS FORMER KITE PHARMA CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER CYNTHIA M. BUTITTA TO ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Nov 02, 2017

    UroGen Pharma Ltd, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments to address unmet needs in the field of urology, with a focus on uro-oncology, today announced the appointment of Cynthia M. Butitta to its board of directors, effective immediately.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13321332

    AS AMAZON ENTRY INTO PHARMA LOOMS, CEOS SEE PLENTY OF ROOM FOR CHANGE IN DISTRIBUTION

    Nov 02, 2017

    Online retailing giant Amazon has yet to publicly disclose any plans to get into drug sales, but the mere speculation has pharma CEOs thinking, and speaking, about how it could entirely remake their world.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13341334

    CATAPULT OFFERS UK SMES HIGH-RESOLUTION ANALYSIS

    Nov 01, 2017

    Medicines Discovery Catapult is inviting UK SMEs working in medicines development to work together on high-resolution analysis of potential drug targets.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13261326

    CYCLACEL PHARMACEUTICALS ANNOUNCES THAT FULL RESULTS FROM THE PHASE 3 SEAMLESS TRIAL HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATION AT ASH ANNUAL MEETING

    Nov 01, 2017

    Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Cyclacel or the Company), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using cell cycle, transcriptional regulation and DNA damage response biology to develop innovative, targeted medicines for cancer and other proliferative diseases.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13271327

    SYSTEMATIC REVIEW LOOKS AT THE EFFECTIVENESS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF MEFLOQUINE

    Oct 31, 2017

    Researchers have published two systematic reviews revealing the safety of mefloquine (Lariam) for preventing malaria in travellers. “Mefloquine is at least as effective as other options,” says Dr Tickell-Painter, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, lead author on both papers, “But patien...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13231323

    AZ FARMS OUT RARE DISEASE THERAPY TO MEREO

    Oct 31, 2017

    AstraZeneca has licensed an experimental rare disease therapy to UK-based Mereo BioPharma, as it continues to shed products outside of its area of strategic focus.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13241324

    NOVARTIS ANNOUNCES THE PLANNED ACQUISITION OF ADVANCED ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS TO STRENGTHEN ONCOLOGY PORTFOLIO

    Oct 30, 2017

    Novartis announced today, that it has entered a memorandum of understanding with Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) under which Novartis intends to commence a tender offer for 100% of the share capital of AAA subject to certain conditions.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13171317

    2016 SAW JUMP IN COMPLAINTS TO UK PHARMA REGULATOR

    Oct 30, 2017

    The number of complaints to the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority, which polices adherence to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry’s Code of Practice, jumped significantly last year.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13181318

    SHIRE’S HAE DRUG FIRAZYR CLEARED FOR CHILDREN

    Oct 27, 2017

    European regulators have approved a label extension for Shire’s Firazyr, broadening its use include adolescents and children aged two years and older with a particular type of HAE.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13131313

    NEW INITIATIVE TO ACCELERATE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSAL INFLUENZA VACCINES

    Oct 27, 2017

    The Human Vaccines Project, a public-private partnership with a mission to decode the immune system to advance human health, has announced the launch of the Universal Influenza Vaccine Initiative (UIVI).


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13161316

    FDA REJECTS PTC’S DMD DRUG TRANSLARNA

    Oct 26, 2017

    PTC Therapeutics will need to carry out at least one further trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of its Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy therapy Translarna if it is to have a chance of bagging its approval in the US.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13081308

    FDA REJECTS PTC’S DMD DRUG TRANSLARNA

    Oct 26, 2017

    PTC Therapeutics will need to carry out at least one further trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of its Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy therapy Translarna if it is to have a chance of bagging its approval in the US.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13091309

    TRANSPLANTED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS REVERSE DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEURO-MUSCULAR DISORDER

    Oct 26, 2017

    Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that a single infusion of wildtype hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) into a mouse model of Friedreich's ataxia (FA) measurably halted cellular damage caused by the degenerative disease.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13101310

    GILEAD PRESENTS PROMISING DATA FOR NASH DRUG

    Oct 25, 2017

    Gilead has presented promising Phase II results for its experimental NASH drug GS-0976, showing significant reductions in the buildup of liver fat and a marker of fibrosis.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13041304

    FDA RECOGNIZES ORPHAN DRUG EXCLUSIVITY FOR ADAMAS’ GOCOVRI

    Oct 25, 2017

    Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Orphan Drug Products (OOPD) has recognized by letter to the company the seven-years of orphan drug exclusivity for GOCOVRI (amantadine) extended release capsules, the first and only FDA-approved m...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13071307

    EX-COPS + ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK ACTOR SAY NO TO THE DRUG WAR ON CANNABIS PLANET

    Oct 24, 2017

    Actor Matt Peters from the hit NETFLIX original series Orange is the New Black and a group of former law enforcement officers will speak out about the hypocrisy of America's war on drugs this weekend on Cannabis Planet.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13021302

    INNOVATION PHARMACEUTICALS PROVIDES DEVELOPMENT UPDATE ON BRILACIDIN FOR INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

    Oct 24, 2017

    Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, is pleased to provide a development update for Brilacidin as a promising novel, non-corticosteroid, non-biologic treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=13031303

    MEDICINES DISCOVERY CATAPULT, ANTRUK START ANTIBIOTICS PROJECT

    Oct 20, 2017

    Medicines Discovery Catapult and ANTRUK Enterprises, a wholly owned subsidiary of the charity Antibiotic Research UK, are working together on the inaugural project at the former’s new facility at the University.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12961296

    CPHI ANNUAL REPORT REVEALS SLOW AND DISCOURAGING TRENDS IN CURRENT DRUG PIPELINES

    Oct 19, 2017

    The current drugs pipeline is discouraging and slowing simple manufacturing innovations according to the CPhI Annual Report, undertaken by UBM, which focuses on the immediate and long-term trends in pharmaceutical manufacturing and ingredients.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12991299

    BMS SCORES AN EARLY VICTORY IN THE NEW CANCER BIOMARKER BATTLE

    Oct 16, 2017

    This is a measurement of the quantity of mutations carried by a tumour – and it is thought that cancer cells with a high TMB may have more antigens that could be targeted by cancer immunotherapies. Cancer cells with high TMB tend to have acquired, or somatic mutations, that have developed as the dis...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12921292

    IMMUNOGEN ANNOUNCES INVESTIGATIONAL NEW DRUG APPLICATION FOR IMGN632 FOR HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES IS ACTIVE

    Oct 16, 2017

    ImmunoGen, Inc., a leader in the expanding field of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed the safety review of its investigational new drug (IND) application for IMGN632 in patients with CD123-posit...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12951295

    ROCHE’S SKIN CANCER DRUG ERIVEDGE PULLED FROM CDF

    Oct 13, 2017

    Roche’s Erivedge could be removed from the Cancer Drugs Fund within months after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ruled that the drug was not a cost-effective treatment for skin cancer.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12891289

    MEDTRONIC AND MERCY ANNOUNCE DATA SHARING PARTNERSHIP TO ACCELERATE MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION

    Oct 13, 2017

    Medtronic plc, the global leader in medical technology, and Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic health care system in the U.S, together will establish a new data sharing and analysis network that helps gather clinical evidence for medical device innovation and patient access.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12911291

    MSD PULLS PLUG ON CHOLESTEROL DRUG ANACETRAPIB

    Oct 12, 2017

    MSD has decided to pull the plug on its late-stage cholesterol drug anacetrapib after a lacklustre performance in clinical trials. The company said it would not file for approval of the investigational cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor on the back of a review of its clinical profil...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12861286

    FIRST PATIENT TREATED WITH TITAN PHARMACEUTICALS' SUBDERMAL IMPLANT FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE

    Oct 11, 2017

    Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc, a company developing proprietary therapeutics for the treatment of select chronic diseases utilizing its ProNeura long-term, continuous drug delivery technology, announced today that the first patient has been treated in a Phase 1/2 trial of the company's ropinirole impla...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12821282

    INNOVUS PHARMACEUTICALS EXPANDS ITS INTERNATIONAL PROPRIETARY PRODUCT PATENT PORTFOLIO WITH ITS FIRST CHINESE PATENT

    Oct 11, 2017

    Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Innovus Pharma" or the “Company”) (OTCQB Venture Market: INNV), an emerging over-the-counter (“OTC”) consumer goods and specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the commercialization, licensing and development of safe and effective non-prescription medicine and con...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12831283

    ALLERGY DRUG IMPROVES FUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC INJURY FROM MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

    Oct 11, 2017

    In a remarkably rapid translation of laboratory research findings into a treatment with the potential to benefit patients, UC San Francisco scientists have successfully completed a Phase II clinical trial showing that an FDA-approved antihistamine restores nervous system function in patients with ch...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12841284

    AKCEA’S RARE LIPID DISORDER DRUG WINS PIM STATUS

    Oct 10, 2017

    Akcea Therapeutics’s volanesorsen has been granted a Promising Innovative Medicine (PIM) designation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for the treatment of familial chylomicronaemia syndrome (FCS), a rare genetic lipid disorder.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12781278

    AZ’ LUNG CANCER DRUG TAGRISSO BAGS BREAKTHROUGH STATUS

    Oct 10, 2017

    AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso has been awarded breakthrough status in the US as a first-line treatment for a specific type of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), potentially speeding up its development and regulatory pathway.


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12791279

    FDA GRANTS BREAKTHROUGH THERAPY DESIGNATION TO TAGRISSO FOR NSCLC

    Oct 09, 2017

    AstraZeneca has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) for Tagrisso (osimertinib) for the 1st-line treatment of patients with metastatic epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12751275

    FDA AWARDS 15 GRANTS FOR CLINICAL TRIALS TO STIMULATE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR RARE DISEASES

    Oct 06, 2017

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has awarded 15 new clinical trial research grants totaling more than $22 million over the next four years to boost the development of products for patients with rare diseases. These new grants were awarded to principal investigators from ...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12731273

    ENGINEERING APPROACH COMBINES DRUGS TO CONTROL PARASITIC WORMS

    Oct 05, 2017

    Researchers have developed an experiment that demonstrates an engineering technology – which can quickly identify potential drug combinations that are effective on a small-animal model organism. The experiment could lead to further work that produces effective treatments for parasitic roundworms, or...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12701270

    MOST CANCER DRUGS APPROVED BY EMA SHOW LITTLE BENEFIT: STUDY

    Oct 05, 2017

    The research, published in the BMJ, looked at the 48 cancer drugs in 68 indications approved by the Agency over the four-year time period. Of these, eight indications (12%) were approved on the basis of a single-arm study. At the time of market approval, 24 (35%) of the indications showed significan...


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    https://Pharmaceutical.report/news-article.aspx?ID=12711271

    FDA APPROVES MYLAN'S GENERIC COPAXONE

    Oct 04, 2017

    The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Mylan’s generic version of Teva’s blockbuster multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Copaxone. Several companies have already developed their own versions of Copaxone (glatiramer acetate), but it is a lucrative market with a great deal of scope: the branded pro...


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    INNOVUS PHARMA ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF THE FULL LABEL FOR ITS NASAL DRUG FLUTICARE FOR ALLERGY SYMPTOM RELIEF ON DAILYMED

    Oct 03, 2017

    Innovus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Innovus Pharma" or the “Company”) (OTCQB Venture Market: INNV), an emerging over-the-counter (“OTC”) consumer goods and specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the commercialization, licensing and development of safe and effective non-prescription medicine and con...


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    AMGEN AND CYTOMX THERAPEUTICS ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC COLLABORATION IN IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY

    Oct 03, 2017

    Amgen and CytomX Therapeutics, Inc, today announced that the companies have entered into a strategic collaboration in immuno-oncology. The companies will co-develop a CytomX ProbodyTM T-cell engaging bispecific against the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR), a highly validated oncology target e...


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    COMPUTER MODEL SHOWS AN OPTIMAL ANTI-AMYLOID TREATMENT

    Oct 02, 2017

    A group of scientists have created a computer model to analyse amyloid beta accumulation. Scientists from the Institute for Systems Biology Moscow took information from published papers and clinical studies, analysed it and described the laws by equations. Although there is a huge amount of the data...


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    COMPUTER MODEL SHOWS AN OPTIMAL ANTI-AMYLOID TREATMENT

    Oct 02, 2017

    A group of scientists have created a computer model to analyse amyloid beta accumulation. Scientists from the Institute for Systems Biology Moscow took information from published papers and clinical studies, analysed it and described the laws by equations. Although there is a huge amount of the data...


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    IDF AND NOVO NORDISK LAUNCH FIRST-EVER GLOBAL SURVEY ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AWARENESS AMONG PEOPLE WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES

    Sep 29, 2017

    To mark World Heart Day today, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has partnered with Novo Nordisk to launch the first-ever multi-country online survey investigating the level of CVD awareness and knowledge among people living with type 2 diabetes. The global survey - Taking Diabetes to Hear...


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    PATIENT GROUPS SHARPEN THEIR CAPABILITIES TO PROTECT ACCESS TO MEDICINES FOR TREATING RARE BLEEDING DISORDERS

    Sep 29, 2017

    The Great Lakes Hemophilia Foundation (GLHF) headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., the New York City Hemophilia Chapter (NYCHC) and the Ohio Bleeding Disorders Council (OBDC) in Columbus take on complex legislative and public policy issues to ensure patients' voices are heard in their statehouses.


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    PARKINSON’S DISEASE DRUG CARBIDOPA SHOWS ANTICANCER EFFECTS

    Sep 29, 2017

    Research shows the Parkinson’s disease drug carbidopa displays significant anticancer effects in both human cell lines and mice when given at normal patient dosage levels. This discovery may explain the low incidence of many cancers in patients with Parkinson’s disease and could lead the way to carb...


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