European regulators have issued a green light for Amgen and Allergan’s Mvasi, marking the first biosimilar of Roche’s Avastin to be approved in the region. The drug has been cleared to treat a range of indications spanning carcinoma of the colon or rectum, breast cancer; nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer, renal cell cancer; platinum-sensitive, or platinum-resistant recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer and cervical cancer. The companies noted that the approval came after trial data showed a high degree of similarity between Mvasi (biosimilar bevacizumab) and its reference drug, “with no clinically meaningful differences in terms of the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity between the products”. Mvasi is the first product borne out of an alliance between Amgen and Allergan to bag marketing authorisation from the European Commission, “highlighting the success of our joint commitment to developing cancer biosimilars,” noted David Nicholson, chief research and development officer at ...
Pfizer has collaborated with Foundation Medicine for the development of companion diagnostics (CDx) for its oncology portfolio.
NHS officials have surmised that a system that identifies seriously ill patients would save approximately 2,000 lives a year. They have also estimated that 627,000 ‘bed days’ could be saved as a result.
The ability to quantify the extent of kidney damage and predict the life remaining in the kidney, using an image obtained at the time when a patient visits the hospital for a kidney biopsy, now is possible using a computer model based on artificial intelligence (AI).
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.
There's no shortage of info (and misinformation) out there about when to get pregnant - or when not to. But no matter what your search engine, great aunt, or the random lady standing next to you in line for coffee says, there's no magical right time. However, there are plenty of factors that may offer a sneak peek into the type of pregnancy you'll have. How old you are? Yep, that's definitely one of them.
Boston biotech resTORbio has pocketed another $40 million from a second-round financing that it hopes gives it enough cash to move its lead candidate for respiratory tract infections in elderly patients into phase 3.
Novo Nordisk today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its New Drug Application (NDA) for OZEMPIC® (semaglutide) injection 0.5 mg or 1 mg, a once-weekly glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor agonist indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes.1 OZEMPIC® is administered once weekly, on the same day each week, and can be taken any time of the day, with or without meals.
On Friday, November 17, Genentech, a Roche company, sued Pfizer in a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, over Pfizer’s biosimilar for Genentech’s Herceptin. Genentech is claiming that Pfizer’s proposed biosimilar infringes 40 of its patents. Genentech also is demanding compensation for lost sales if Pfizer launches its copycat version before the Herceptin patents expire.
Antineoplastic or anticancer drugs, affect the process of cell division i.e. are antiproliferative. They damage the DNA and initiate apoptosis, preventing the development and spread of neoplastic cells. Commonly used antineoplastic drugs can be divided into the following six categories: alkylating agents, anti-metabolites, anticancerous, antibiaties, aminoglutethimide and others. Today, Ddu, the leading global pharmaceutical & medical device B2B online platform, shares China’s Import and Export Report of Antineoplastic Drugs with you. General situation of global market of antineoplastic drugs According to the IMS’s latest report, “Global Oncology Trends 2017” showed that in 2016 the global market sales of antineoplastic drugs were 89.6 billion USD and 85 billion USD in 2015. Over the past five years, the global market of antineoplastic drugs has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.7% and is expected to exceed 147 billion USD by 2021. As indicated on the chart, the United States, the European Union and Japan are still the driving ...
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