Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted accelerated approval to Praxbind (idarucizumab) for use in patients who are taking the anticoagulant Pradaxa (dabigatran) during emergency situations when there is a need to reverse Pradaxa’s blood-thinning effects.
“These findings may help inform specialists treating patients with overactive bladder, that BOTOX is an effective and safe treatment option for patients not getting the relief from an anticholinergic.”
Medline Industries, Inc. announced that it will initiate a voluntary nationwide recall of lot # 45810 of Acetaminophen tablets, 500mg, uncoated compressed tablets to the consumer level.
Johnson & Johnson has had sales of $17.1 billion for the third quarter of 2015, a decrease of 7.4% as compared to the third quarter of 2014.
Skipanon Brand Seafoods LLC of Warrenton, Oregon is voluntarily recalling ALL LOTS, ALL SIZES of ALL Skipanon brand seafoods canned products because it has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death. Consumers are warned not to use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled.
Gene therapy preserved vision in a study involving dogs with naturally occurring, late-stage retinitis pigmentosa, according to research funded by the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health.
TF Supplements of Houston, TX, is voluntarily recalling RHINO 7 3000 capsules packaged in a bottle containing six capsules and Rhino 7 Platinum 3000 Capsules packaged in a single blister packs hang card count.
Eli Lilly and Company and the ACCELERATE study’s academic leadership have accepted the recommendation of the independent data monitoring committee to terminate the Phase 3 trial of the investigational medicine evacetrapib, due to insufficient efficacy.
Quantum Pharma has signed an out-licensing agreement with a German pharmaceutical company for its first licensed product, a cholecalciferol 20 000IU capsule, marketed in the UK under the brand name Aviticol.
Physiomics plc, the Oxford, UK based systems biology company has signed a new Virtual Tumour deal with a new pharmaceutical company, the 4th large pharma customer for this service.