Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Futura Medical’s pivotal efficacy study of MED2002, a novel gel for the treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) is underway and recruitment of patients for the study is proceeding well, with 118 patients having enrolled in the study to date.
One worker died in a fire that broke out at India’s Shashun Pharmaceutical’s new production block during trial & commissioning in Cuddalore API facility on November 16, 2015.
Faron Pharmaceuticals Oy (Faron), the clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, has started dealing its Ordinary Shares on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange with effect from 8.00 a.m. Tuesday after placing and subscription for 3,846,154 new Ordinary Shares, raising £10.0 million at a price of 260p per ordinary.
Amgen will present eight IMLYGIC (talimogene laherparepvec) abstracts, including data from the Phase 3 trial and new data from its Phase 1b combination trial with Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, at the 12th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research …
Gilead Sciences, Inc. said Monday that its Phase 3 Study 115 evaluating Zydelig (idelalisib) added to standard therapy in previously-treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients will be unblinded early.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Darzalex (daratumumab) injection for intravenous infusion for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma
A clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health has found that the drug ranibizumab (Lucentis) is highly effective in treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy.
The OSIRIS trial Phase II a investigating once daily OLYSIO (simeprevir) in combination with sofosbuvir in hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4 infected patients, with and without liver cirrhosis, demonstrated treatment to be safe.
A Roche drug that can prolong the lives of some women with advanced breast cancer has been plunged back into the centre of a drug pricing row after Britain’s health cost agency declared that it is still too expensive.
A single dose of Bimatoprost Sustained-Release (SR) lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in 92 percent (n= 69) of glaucoma patients at 4 months and 71 percent (n=53) at 6 months while demonstrating a favorable efficacy and safety profile.