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Every 3 minutes, one person in the United States (U.S.) is diagnosed with blood cancer, as estimated by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). A total number of 176,200 people are expected to be diagnosed with leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2019. Out of which, 61,780 people are expected to be diagnosed with ...

CHMP opines positively for 13 Drugs for a variety of disease The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has endorsed the use of 13 medicinal drugs for a variety of indications. These include five new medications and eight existing ones whose use is extended ...

FDA approves Fragmin- an anticoagulant for children   The FDA today approved Fragmin for the treatment of blood clots. Pfizer’s candidate Fragmin which was earlier approved for the treatment of only adults suffering from a fatal disease called VTE, which can include deep vein thrombosis (blood clot in the d...

AstraZeneca-Daiichi breast cancer treatment scored promising results The breast cancer drug trastuzumab deruxtecan developed by AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo showed positive results in a metastatic breast cancer trial. AstraZeneca remunerated Daiichi Sankyo USD 1.35 billion upfront and guaranteed up to USD 6.9 ...

EISAI now solely responsible for lemborexant Eisai today announced that its U.S. subsidiary has bought out  Purdue Pharma L.P.’s rights in the worldwide collaboration for the development and commercialization of lemborexant, an investigational sleep-wake regulation agent being studied for the treatment of multip...

Selumetinib gets the U.S. Breakthrough Therapy Designation Selumetinib- an investigational drug, for the treatment of pediatric patients aged three years and above suffering from symptomatic and/or progressive, inoperable neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), plexiform neurofibromas (PN)- a rare genetic condition, has...

Novartis comes up with an answer for breast cancer with PI3K drug alpelisib Novartis comes up with an answer with its recent data on BYL719 (alpelisib) in combination with fulvestrant. Their alpha-specific drug for PIK3CA mutated HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer, BYL719 plus fulvestrant nearly doubled the progressio...

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...

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...

AstraZeneca dragout Entasis files to fund antibiotic phase 3 for USD 86 Million IPO Massachusetts-based Entasis Therapeutics has spun out to raise up to USD 86 Million through an IPO. The AstraZeneca spinout is attempting to fund a phase 3 trial of a drug to overcome bacterial resistance to beta-lactams. In 2015, ...