China's top food and drug authority announced on Friday that it has approved the country's first vaccine for Ebola virus disease.
GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Shingrix (Zoster Vaccine Recombinant, Adjuvanted) for the prevention of shingles (herpes zoster) in adults aged 50 years and older. Shingrix is a non-live, recombinant subunit vaccine given intramuscularly in two doses.
To promote the adjustment of industrial structure and technological innovation in the drug and medical device sector, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee and the State Council jointly released a guideline on the reform of the review and approval system, which came into effect on October 8, 2017.
Synthetic gene circuits that only trigger powerful, tumor-specific immune responses when they detect certain disease markers may help immunotherapies to fight cancer more effectively, according to a new study.
Just as GlaxoSmithKline nears a decision from the U.S. FDA for its key shingles vaccine, Shingrix, Canada has become the first country to approve the shot—and it's a key piece of CEO Emma Walmsley's prescription for growth at the drugmaker.
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited and HemoShear Therapeutics, LLC, a privately held biotechnology company, today announced a partnership to discover and develop novel therapeutics for liver diseases, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
US regulators have accepted an application by AstraZeneca and MedImmune to expand the scope of Imfinzi (durvalumab) to include patients with a certain form of lung cancer.
Warp Drive Bio, Inc., a drug discovery company developing therapeutics that exploit the molecules and mechanisms of nature, announced today that it has formed a strategic collaboration with Roche to discover and develop multiple novel classes of antibiotics. The serious global health threat of multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections has created an urgent need for new antibiotics with novel structures and mechanisms of action.
Pfizer Inc. today announced full results from the Phase 2 clinical trial of the investigational, next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor lorlatinib that exhibited clinically meaningful activity against lung tumors and brain metastases in a range of patients with ALK-positive and ROS1-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including those who were heavily pretreated.
Back in April, England’s cost watchdogs said they wouldn’t cover Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo in head and neck cancer due to “uncertain” clinical evidence. Now, though, they’re singing a different tune.
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