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Medecins Sans Frontieres urges India not to "cave to pressure" on affordable drugs
Friday, June 12, 2015Charity Medecins Sans Frontieres appealed to India on Thursday not to give in to pressure from Europe the United States and Japan to make it easier for big firms to get patents in the country potentially blocking the production of cheap generics MSF...
Consumer watchdog Public Citizen accuses FDA of wrongly expanding Vanda sleep drug Hetlioz use
Friday, June 12, 2015US regulators have inappropriately expanded the approved use of Vanda Pharmaceuticals Incs sleep disorder drug Hetlioz beyond its original indication for use in blind people the consumer watchdog Public Citizen said on Thursday The US Food and Drug...
FDA panel backs approval of GSK asthma drug, mepolizumab in adults
Friday, June 12, 2015An advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration recommended approval on Thursday of GlaxoSmithKline Plcs drug mepolizumab for severe asthma in patients aged and older The panel voted to against approving it in children aged to The...
Lilly shares sizzle as investors await Alzheimer's data
Friday, June 12, 2015Shares of Eli Lilly and Co have jumped percent this week confounding many industry experts amid speculation investors were placing bets ahead of expected longterm data on an Alzheimers disease treatment once considered a dud With those gains Lilly...
Healthcare investor Malin acquires 65 percent stake in Altan Pharma for $39.03 million
Thursday, June 11, 2015Private healthcare company investor Malin which floated in March said on Thursday it had acquired a percent stake in fellow Irishbased drug company Altan Pharma for million euros million its second investment in two days Malin set up by a number...
Horizon Discovery Group plc and DefiniGEN announce Collaboration to Develop Gene-Engineered iPS-based Cell Lines
Thursday, June 11, 2015Horizon Discovery Group plc the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines and DefiniGEN Ltd a leading provider of stem cell products and service...
Canadians hope $250 mln trial can revive failed Roche heart drug
Wednesday, June 10, 2015A Canadian team hopes to revive a heart drug ditched by Roche three years ago by running a major clinical trial targeting only those patients with the right genetic profile to benefit from its ability to boost good cholesterol The Swiss drugmaker wh...
Roche's Actemra receives FDA breakthrough therapy designation
Wednesday, June 10, 2015Roche said it received breakthrough therapy designation from the US health regulator for its Actemra treatment in systemic sclerosis The Baselbased drugmaker said it will present new data from two studies on the drug in patients with early rheumatoi...
Drug switch study bolsters case for copies of biotech medicine
Wednesday, June 10, 2015New clinical data has bolstered the case for using cheaper copies of expensive biotech drugs by showing that patients with rheumatic diseases can be safely and effectively switched from originalbrand medicine to a lowercost version While the first c...
FDA Approves Mid-Stage Trial of Vaccine to Reverse Type 1 Diabetes
Wednesday, June 10, 2015Diabetes researchers are hoping that the almost centuryold bacillus CalmetteGuerin BCG vaccine for preventing tuberculosis may also reverse type diabetes The FDA has approved a midstage trial to test BCG vaccine in adults with advanced cases of th...
