US regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that alerts doctors when the medication has been taken, offering a new way of monitoring patients but also raising privacy concerns. The digital pill approved Monday combines two existing products: the former blockbuster psychiatric medication Abilify—long used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder—with a sensor tracking system first approved in 2012.
Beijing Beishengyan biological Product’s Sabin Strain Inactivated Polioviurs Vaccine (Sabin IPV), secured approval from the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) in August 2017. On September 29th, Sabin IPV was officially on the market, offering one more option for IPV precaution. With the exception of time for material supplements, the CFDA took only 35 days to process production, registration and application of Beishengyan’s IPV and issue a drug approval number and certificate.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) has expanded the approval of Zelboraf (vemurafenib) to include the treatment of certain adult patients with Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD), a rare cancer of the blood. Zelboraf is indicated to treat patients whose cancer cells have a specific genetic mutation known as BRAF V600. This is the first FDA-approved treatment for ECD.
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 ...
A venture capital firm in the Netherlands — backed by some big names in Big Pharma — has raised $95 million in a new fund to fuel European biotech startups.
Ddu has gradually made its way through Europe by attending the CPhI Worldwide 2017 in Frankfurt and Medica 2017 in Düsseldorf, Germany. During conversations with manufacturers, ICH was frequently mentioned. Since China was admitted as one of the regulatory members of ICH in June of last year, it was now placed at the forefront of the discussions.
Thailand may be one of the countries that pose the biggest challenge for companies who would like to register their pharmaceutical products in Southeast Asia since they require more than your standard documents.
Coronary heart disease is a common illness of cardiovascular disease which is treated mainly through medicines, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Remarkably, PCI is preferable to both clinicians and patients for its short treatment course, small wound and significant therapeutic effects: doctors can use PCI to open coronary arteries that are narrowed or blocked by the buildup of atherosclerotic plaque without thoracotomy. Today, Ddu is going to share the market report of coronary stent with you.
The FDA has cleared Abbott’s smartphone-compatible insertable cardiac monitor (ICM), the first and only device of its kind in the U.S. This provides patients and physicians with another way to monitor and diagnose abnormal heart rhythms.
Novo Nordisk announced that the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted 16-0 in favour of the approval of once-weekly semaglutide to improve glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes. One member of the committee abstained.
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