Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Novartis has reported new data suggesting, for the first time, that Cosentyx (secukinumab) may modify the course of moderate-to-severe psoriasis leading to long-term, treatment-free skin clearance.
Congressional Republicans recrafted their Obamacare replacement bill on Monday in hopes of satisfying critics as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to promote his first major legislative initiative on Capitol Hill.
Allergan has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market JUVÉDERM VOLLURETM XC, for correction of moderate to severe facial wrinkles and folds, such as nasolabial folds, in adults over the age of 21.
Array BioPharma said on Sunday it has exited the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Division of Oncology Products 2 its new drug application (NDA) for binimetinib monotherapy for the treatment of NRAS-mutant melanoma, a rare, mutationally-driven subset of skin cancer.
AB Science pharmaceutical company, specialist in the protein kinase inhibitors (PKIs), said on Monday that it had the first successful phase 3 trial of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Bayer AG and Janssen Pharmaceuticals reported results from a study called Einstein Choice on Saturday.
New analysis shows Novartis’ Entresto improves glycemic control in reduced ejection fraction heart failure patients with diabetes. Novartis said on Saturday the new post-hoc analysis of PARADIGM-HF data demonstrates Entresto lowered levels of HbA1c (a measure of glycemic control) by 0.26% vs. 0.16% for ACE-inhibitor enalapril in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) patients who also had diabetes.
Roche has launched a new instrument for nucleic acid extraction and purification, the MagNA Pure 24 System. The new system offers an extraction solution with on-board primary sample handling for low to medium throughput customers who require high quality nucleic acid extractions, said Roche.
Oxford BioDynamics is one of six consortium partners to examine and address why immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) remit and relapse, with a particular focus on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
AstraZeneca’s subsidiary ZS Pharma has been developing an oral powder as a treatment for high potassium levels in the blood serum, called hyperkalaemia, for which it got a Complete Response Letter (CRL) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).