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October 1, 2015 Off

NIH totals $85M for BRAIN initiative in 2015

The National Institutes of Health has shared its second wave of grants to support the goals of the Brain Research through…

October 1, 2015 Off

Pfizer:A Story Half Told Continues

By Dino Mustafić

Pfizer Inc., in partnership with five leading breast cancer advocacy organizations, has announced the next chapter of the Breast Cancer: A Story Half Told initiative, launched in 2014 to identify public misperceptions and gaps in knowledge surrounding metastatic breast cancer (MBC), the most advanced form of breast cancer.

September 29, 2015 Off

Pfizer’s Sayana Press first self injectable contraceptive in UK

By Dino Mustafić

Pfizer Inc., the specialist in making contraceptive medicine, best known for making Viagra, has announced that its injectable contraceptive, Sayana Press (medroxyprogesterone acetate), is now available to women in the United Kingdom (UK) for administration by self-injection.

September 29, 2015 Off

Eli Lilly, Incyte: positive top-line results of RA-BEGIN

By Dino Mustafić

Eli Lilly and Company and Incyte Corporation have announced positive top-line results of RA-BEGIN, the third Phase 3 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of baricitinib, an investigational medicine for patients with moderately-to-severely active rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

September 28, 2015 Off

HHS sponsors development of drug for hospitalized influenza patients

By Dino Mustafić

HSS is sponsoring drug developed for use in treating patients hospitalized with influenza.

September 28, 2015 Off

NIH awards $46 million for research for Human Placenta Project

By Dino Mustafić

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $46 million for research for the Human Placenta Project, an initiative to revolutionize understanding of the placenta.

September 28, 2015 Off

NIH grants $144M to help investigate exposures from womb through later years in life

By Dino Mustafić

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded nearly $144 million in new grants to develop new tools and measures that can be used to investigate more effectively environmental exposures from the womb through later years in a child’s life.