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Genentech ( Roche ) has submitted a supplemental BLA to the US FDA for its first-in-class interleukin-6 inhibitor Actemra (tocilizumab) for an indication of prevention of structural joint damage and improvement of physical function in adults with ...
The MEP responsible for guiding the controversial patient information proposal through the European Parliament says he is not prepared to see it derailed by opposition from member state ministers and certain political groupings in parliament. ...
Merck / Portola Pharmaceuticals ' investigational Factor Xa inhibiting anticoagulant betrixaban was associated with significantly less clinically relevant bleeding than warfarin when given at 40mg/day to patients with atrial fibrillation, show new ...
Genzyme has just revealed that it found an impurity in a single vial of its Gaucher's disease drug Cerezyme (imiglucerase) from its fill-finish facility in Waterford, Ireland last December. However, it downplayed the problem, noting that the ...
Hypolipaemic fenofibrates such as Abbott s' TriCor, its next-generation Trilipix and generics, do not improve cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes when used in combination with simvastatin (Merck & Co's lipid-lowering Zocor). The ...
 
Hospitals' failure to pay pharmaceutical companies and newly announced price cuts are just some of the challenges facing the sector in Greece, Elizabeth Sukkar, Scrip's world editor, discovers. ...
The pharmaceutical industry has long eyed Turkey as one of its key emerging markets, but recent government action, which could see medicine access delayed by years, is giving it a wake-up call, ...
US agencies are making inroads in the use of comparative effectiveness research to support more robust decision-making. Observational studies are an emerging force in this area and promise to ...
 
Developing relationships with medicine regulators in China and India is just one of the challenges facing Emer Cooke, the international face of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Scrip's Elizabeth ...
Many pharmaceutical and biotech companies devote themselves to the discovery and development of novel drugs for unmet medical needs. However, with R&D costs and regulatory hurdles multiplying, and ...
After years of anti-obesity disappointments, Orexigen's Contrave, Vivus's Qnexa and Arena's lorcaserin stand on the verge of being filed with the US FDA. Professor Michael Cowley, inventor of ...
 
The US is a great place to do business. Being an almost free market, the profits are good, but so also are the temptations. So if you can't be bothered to put the money into a clinical trial to find ...
1. risk aversion converges with focus on quality The rise and rise of the biotech sector and big pharma's increasing reliance on biological products as sources of future innovation are well ...
Has the swine flu outbreak exposed a failure in US public health planning? Robert Hutchens, a partner at the consulting firm Booz & Co, describes the problems associated with developing and marketing ...
 
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis represent the most common forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), clinical conditions affecting the small and/or large bowel. It is well known that IBD is an ...
Sir James Black, the 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize for the invention of propranolol and cimetidine, opened the 2007 Safety Pharmacology (SP) Society annual meeting with a lecture on his ...
The primary goal of this meeting was to propose strategies for expediting the Phase 0 drug research process for valuable drug candidate identification by taking full advantage of innovative ...
 
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