The U.S. Food and Drug(FDA) Administration today granted accelerated approval to Calquence (acalabrutinib) for the treatment of adults with mantle cell lymphoma who have received at least one prior therapy.
Keytruda (pembrolizumab) was the main bright spot for Merck as it weathered blows from the NotPetya cyber attack, new competition and pricing pressures in hepatitis C.
AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Bydureon® BCise™ (exenatide extended-release) injectable suspension, a new formulation of Bydureon (exenatide extended-release) injectable suspension in an improved once-weekly, single-dose autoinjector device for adults with type-2 diabetes whose blood sugar remains uncontrolled on one or more oral medicines in addition to diet and exercise, to improve glycemic control.
Cardiovascular drugs are medicines used to treat medical conditions associated with the heart or the circulatory system (blood vessels), such as arrhythmias, blood clots, coronary artery disease, high or low blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart failure, and strokes, whose therapeutic effects aim to improve cardiac functions, regulate blood flow of heart and change the circulatory system of blood distribution among other things.
For decades, Chinese patients have struggled to gain access to cutting-edge medicines thanks to bureaucratic delays that have hamstrung drug development. Now a sweeping government overhaul of drug approvals is poised to change that.
Merck took a dominant position in frontline lung cancer with the approval of a combination of Keytruda and chemo. And it isn’t just waiting around to see if any combination of a PD-(L)1 with a CTLA4 can come along and knock it off its market-leading perch.
Boehringer Ingelheim has reason to believe its diabetes medication Jardiance can help fend off cardiovascular death, kidney failure and hospitalization for heart failure. And now, it’s developing a model to help predict which patients are best suited for treatment with the therapy.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Adherium for its new inhaler monitoring device for AstraZeneca’s Symbicort aerosol inhaler.
AstraZeneca and Merck & Co have announced a global strategic oncology collaboration to co-develop and co-commercialise the former’s Lynparza and selumetinib for multiple cancer types.
EU regulators are permitting the use of AstraZeneca’s breast cancer drug Faslodex at an earlier stage of the treatment pathway in patients with certain forms of the disease.
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