December 20, 2016
GSKs two-drug HIV treatment regimen could become one tablet
Two phase III studies of two-drug HIV treatment regimen conducted by GSK’s HIV specialist ViiV Healthcare, Pfizer and Shinogi Limited,…
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Category: Approval
December 20, 2016
FDA approves Clovis Oncology’s new drug for advanced ovarian cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to orphan drug Rubraca (rucaparib) to treat women with…
December 20, 2016
Novartis, Conatus in borad deal to make treatments for liver diseases
Novartis and Conatus Pharmaceuticals have signed a multipurpose deal which will help the two drug makers to make liver-disease treatment,…
December 19, 2016
GSK/Ivannova study Relvar/Breo once-daily cobination
GlaxoSmithKline and Innoviva have started a phase III study to compare certain triple combination asthma therapy with a double combination…
December 19, 2016
FDA takes down highest warnings from Pfizer’s and GSK’s quitting smoking drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that the mental-health side effect risk of Pfizer’s and GSK’s quitting…
December 19, 2016
Bangladesh-based drugmaker gets FDA’s approval for its generic Bristol-Myers’s diabetes tablets
Bangladesh-based drugmaker Beximco has received approval for its Bristol-Myers Squibb’s (BMS) generic equivalent Glucophage XR tablets, Metformin from the US…
December 19, 2016
Vertex announces German reimbursement agreement for its cystic fibrosis drug
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has reached a pricing and reimbursement agreement for Orkambi (lumacaftor/ivacaftor) with the German Federal Association of the…
December 19, 2016
Hungarian Richter withdraws biosimilar drug marketing authorisation application from EMA
Gedeon Richter Plc., a Hungarian drugmaker has withdrawn its Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for…
December 19, 2016
Adocia/Lilly successfully complete insulin pump study
Adocia and Eli Lilly have completed an insulin pump study under the Adocia-Lilly partnership evaluating BioChaperone Lispro, an ultra-rapid formulation…
December 19, 2016
Janssen asks FDA’s permission to treat adolescent plaque psoriasis patients with Solara
Janssen Biotech is looking to expand the usage of its prescription drug Stelara, as it has asked the U.S. Food…