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.
The quest to better detect cancer has made a potentially huge strides. A study out of Yokohama, Japan, has potentially harnessed artificial intelligence to help detect colorectal cancer even before benign tumors become malignant.
Investors in digital health have been busy this year. In the first half of 2017, 188 startups took in $3.5 billion in investments—a record setting amount. It’s not hard to see why. Patients and providers are both looking to digital health tools to get better treatment and improve the relationship dynamic. With all that money flowing into some very intriguing startups, and it’s a good idea to know what the digital health industry holds for us in the coming years.
Samsung Biologics has announced it has expanded its strategic alliance with MSD, or Merck as it is known in the US and Canada, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding. The relationship has come into force to streamline process development and clinical material production for small biotech start-ups focusing on novel drugs.
Fresh off the heels of its CAR-T approval, Novartis expanded its oncological arsenal with a $3.9 billion acquisition of French cancer firm Advanced Accelerator Applications.
The International Pharmaceutical Networking Exhibition (CPhI Worldwide 2017), was held at Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1 in Messe, Frankfurt, Germany from the 24th to the 26th of October 2017. As the leading global pharmaceutical & medical device B2B online platform, Ddu attended the exhibition, gaining attention from the whole industry.
BioMarin Pharmaceutical announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted its valoctocogene roxaparvovec for Hemophilia A Breakthrough Therapy Designation.
Prospects for GlaxoSmithKline’s new shingle vaccine Shingrix have been raised after US advisors recommended that it should be used instead of rival Zostavax from Merck & Co.
Pfizer plans to kick off an auction process for its consumer healthcare business in November, paving the way for a potential $15 billion-plus sale of the headache pill to lip balm business, sources close to the matter told Reuters.
In the first randomized controlled trial in pediatric multiple sclerosis, fingolimod (Gilenya) significantly cut relapses compared with interferon beta-1a (Avonex), researchers reported here.
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