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The first stage of the Phase IIa study with YELIVA® for advanced cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), a highly lethal malignancy, achieved its pre-specified efficacy goal, and the study can therefore continue to its second stage, enrolling the full cohort of 39 evaluable patients who previous received other treatments
New High-Quality Shrimp Genome Assembly May Reveal Why Females are Superior
Cooperative effort will ensure top quality plants for medical treatment
CrystalGenomics, Inc. announced today that they have signed an Export Agreement with Apsen Farmacêutica for the commercialization of Acelex® (polmacoxib) in Brazil.
Dream-Kicker.com to offer donation-based, cryptocurrency support for cutting-edge regenerative medicine and medical equipment
SpringWorks Therapeutics and BeiGene, Ltd. have teamed up to develop therapeutics that will target advanced solid tumors that contain RAS mutations, as well as other MAPK aberrations.
Today Narasimhan and Novartis announced they were selling U.S. dermatology and generic drug assets, parts of its Sandoz division, to India’s Aurobindo Pharma for up to $1 billion. The deal includes approximately 300 products.
Active Biotech, headquartered in Lund, Sweden, regained the global development and commercialization rights to laquinimod from Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has had a busy August. In addition to the number of draft guidance documents the agency issued during the month, the FDA has also been busy approving a number of new treatments for a variety of diseases.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Biogen and Tokyo, Japan-based Eisai Co. announced results from an analysis of their ongoing long-term extension (LTE) Phase Ib trial of aducanumab for Alzheimer’s disease.
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