TERS solution shows immediate results after installation
4 January 2016 | By HORIBA Scientific
Joint HORIBA and AIST-NT solution provided spatial resolution below 15 nm...
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Existing drugs show promise as antibiotic agents
4 January 2016 | By Victoria White
University of Illinois researchers have found that a number of existing drugs approved for the treatment of various conditions, such as cancer or infertility, show promise as antibiotic agents...
Sanofi Pasteur’s Dengvaxia approved in Brazil
Dengvaxia was shown to reduce dengue due to all four serotypes in two-thirds of the participants in clinical trials and prevent 8 out of 10 hospitalisations due to dengue and up to 93% of severe dengue cases...
Demand for over-the-counter drugs rising, says GBI Research
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Increasing pressures from customers, drug manufacturers and regulators to convert prescription medications to non-prescription status is one of the main drivers of growth within the market...
Trial of Adcetris and Opdivo in non-Hodgkin lymophoma starts
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The phase 1/2 clinical trial will evaluate Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with Opdivo (nivolumab) in patients with CD30-expressing relapsed or refractory B-cell and T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas...
Systemic sclerosis treatment market to reach $500m by 2024
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
According to GlobalData, this rise will be driven by a number of factors, including an increased use of expensive biologics, and off-label use of therapies to treat the disease...
FDA approves Uptravi for pulmonary arterial hypertension
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Uptravi (selexipag) acts by relaxing muscles in the walls of blood vessels to dilate (open) blood vessels and decrease the elevated pressure in the vessels supplying blood to the lungs...
FDA approves Zurampic for patients with gout
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The FDA has approved AstraZeneca’s Zurampic (lesinurad) in combination with xanthine oxidase inhibitor for the treatment of hyperuricemia associated with gout...
Sanofi Pasteur’s Dengvaxia approved in the Philippines
Dengvaxia is the first vaccine licensed for the prevention of dengue in the world...
World’s first clinical guidelines for chronic fungal lung infections
23 December 2015 | By Victoria White
These new guidelines describe the important features of this disease and provide comprehensive treatment recommendations...
Boehringer Ingelheim to open new biopharmaceutical facility in Vienna
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The facility will produce ingredients manufactured using cell cultures and will create more than 400 new jobs in the Austrian capital...
Merck KGaA and Pfizer advance avelumab clinical development programme
22 December 2015 | By
Merck KGaA and Pfizer have announced the opening of trial sites for an international Phase III study of avelumab in patients with ovarian cancer...
Pharmaceutical industry to pay £550 million in 2016 as part of the PPRS
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The PPRS is a unique scheme where pharmaceutical companies agreed to contribute towards the cost of medicines, with the aim of making the latest treatments affordable for the NHS...
PsiOxus initiates study of Keytruda and enadenotucirev in carcinomas
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Enadenotucirev is an oncolytic virus that has been shown in Phase I clinical trials to reach and selectively infect cancer cells when administered by intravenous infusion...
Adynovate meets endpoint in paediatric Haemophilia A study
21 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The study enrolled 73 previously-treated patients with severe haemophilia A younger than 12 years of age and assessed the treatment's haemostatic efficacy in prophylaxis and treatment of bleeding episodes...
