Recent doubts about traditional egg-based flu shots could mean more business for vaccines manufactured in cells. Protection against the dominant H3N2 flu strain offered by the coming season’s flu vaccine will still be far from optimal—putting it mildly. And that's thanks to the widely used manufacturing process based on eggs, a new study predicts.
The FDA confirmed in a March 16, 2012 communication released to Bloomberg News that the vaginally placed pelvic mesh product known as the Prolift, sold by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon, Inc. since March, 2005, was initially marketed without any clearance or approval from the FDA.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has accepted for review Sanofi’s regulatory submission for sotagliflozin. If approved, the oral treatment would be used as an addition to insulin therapy to improve blood sugar control in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2017.
NICE has become the latest organisation to champion digital health, recommending that the NHS should trial an online and mobile programme to treat depression.
The year’s merger-and-acquisition trend continues. Today, the last day of January, Bothell, Washington-based Seattle Genetics announced it is buying Seattle-based Cascadian Therapeutics for about $614 million.
It's not just specialty drugmakers raising prices in recent days. Big Pharma has pushed through a spate of increases, and while all of them are sub-10%—the cap some companies have adopted—some of them will cost payers and consumers plenty.
New drug approvals all but screeched to a halt in 2016, with a measly 22 new OKs after a pair of bountiful years. But the FDA wasted no time in 2017, signing off on 12 drugs in the first quarter alone—besting its record for the same period of any year in recent history.
Curisium, a new healthcare technology that builds blockchain-based contracting technology for payers, providers, and life sciences companies, officially launche with the announcement that it has secured $3.5 million in seed funding.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approved Admelog (insulin lispro injection), a short-acting insulin indicated to improve control in blood sugar levels in adults and pediatric patients aged 3 years and older with type 1 diabetes mellitus and adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Admelog is the first short-acting insulin approved as a “follow-on” product (submitted through the agency’s 505(b)(2) pathway).
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