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Sep 07, 2018

New areas of cancer treatment pop up every now and then without escaping our attention. And this time, it is—getting drugs directly into cancer tumors using Nanoparticles. If the buzz doing the rounds in the industry circles is to be believed, then a new cancer therapy, which will use Nanoparticles to deliver combi...

Sep 06, 2018

Gene therapy company 4D Molecular Therapeutics raises USD 90 Million to collaborate with AstraZeneca and Roche for moving gene therapies into clinical testing 4D Molecular Therapeutics has upraised USD 90 million in venture capital funds for progressing its vector platform and treatments, which use adeno-associate...

Sep 05, 2018

Merck & Company virology business is flickering, after announcing two of its new HIV medications that bagged approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The oral medications, Pifeltro and Delstrigo, are taken once-daily with or without food for adult HIV-1 patients, who have never received antiretrovir...

Sep 04, 2018

Food and Drug Administration repudiates ADHD drug by Sunovion Sunovion’s ADHD drug for the treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has not been accepted by the Food and Drug Administration, FDA. It is so because the drug for ADHD treatment in its current form needs additional clinical trials and...

Sep 04, 2018

The Orphan Drug Act of 1983 was created to encourage pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs for so-called rare or ultra-rare diseases. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines rare diseases as afflicting as fewer than 200,000 individuals. Generally speaking, it has worked. Many companies are willing to inv...

Aug 31, 2018

NICE Rejects Gilead Sciences’ Yescarta on Cost Concerns The United Kingdom’s government-funded health service isn’t being so nice to Gilead Sciences’ CAR-T blood cancer treatment Yescarta. The country’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said the therapy is too expensive for th...

Aug 31, 2018

Use of Placebo is Necessary Only in Certain Types of Oncology Trials: USFDA In a new draft guidance released, the USFDA is questioning whether or not the use of a placebo in a double-blind, randomized clinical trial is always necessary. The FDA said sometimes the use of a placebo can present practical or ethical co...

Aug 31, 2018

AbbVie Receives USFDA Approval for Imbruvica Plus Rituximab as First Chemotherapy-Free Combination Treatment for Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia Adults AbbVie announced that the USFDA approved Imbruvica (ibrutinib) plus rituximab (Rituxan) for the treatment of adult patients with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia (W...

Aug 31, 2018

A digital pill is a tablet or capsule with embedded indigestible sensors that communicate about data outcomes related to when the medication is taken to a mobile application for access by the patient and treating their physicians. The novel digital pill system is designed to facili...

Aug 30, 2018

For all-in-one dialysis system, Outset Medical captures USD 132 Million to extend U.S. expansion Outset Medical bagged USD132 Million in series D capital. This ensued in encouraging the production capabilities and accelerating the commercial expansion for all-in-one dialysis system. The FDA cleared the Tablo Hemodia...