Mallinckrodt, which has landed in hot water multiple times this year, is diversifying beyond its controversial lead seller.
Boehringer Ingelheim has won its first biosimilar approval in Europe with authorisation of Cyltezo for a range of chronic inflammatory conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
In a new study, a Yale-led research team uncovers how a very low calorie diet can rapidly reverse type 2 diabetes in animal models. If confirmed in people, the insight provides potential new drug targets for treating this common chronic disease, said the researchers.
Authorities in the city of Nanjing, the capital of China’s Jiangsu province, announced at the end of October that they would sequence the genes of 1 million individuals to build a genetic database of Chinese residents. This project is part of the National Health and Medicine Big Data Nanjing Center, a new data storage facility under construction in the region.
Dicerna Pharmaceuticals and Boehringer Ingelheim today announced a research collaboration and license agreement to discover and develop novel RNAi therapeutics for the treatment of chronic liver diseases. Dicerna can get up to $201 million in upfront and success-based development and commercialization milestones for an undisclosed target.
Medtronic has secured the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its next generation spinal cord stimulator branded as Intellis platform for the management of certain forms of chronic intractable pain.
The FDA has granted Fast Track designation to Shire's SHP607 for the prevention of chronic lung disease in extremely premature infants.
A five-year strategic research collaboration between AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm MedImmune and Ethris, a company focussed on mRNA-based therapeutics with specific expertise in pulmonary disease.
The future of researching ways to prevent AD should probably focus on people at risk for developing the disease, said researchers, and should highlight how to improve management of chronic health conditions and education about living healthier.
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