schizophrenia

Horizon Therapeutics Bolsters its Rare Disease Portfolio in a $3B Viela Bio Buyout Horizon Therapeutics has announced to acquire Viela Bio for about $3.1 billion to augment its portfolio and pipeline of treatments for rare diseases. The shares of Viela Bio skyrocketed more than 52% in premarket trading after the...

Mitochondria destruction can help in Cancer Treatment  Human cells require structures known as mitochondria for the generation of energy for their biochemical activities. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden thought that destroying these could be a strategy for cancer treatment.  Follo...

Florence-based Menarini Group has announced a USD667 million acquisition of the Stemline Therapeutics, an oncology-focused company. As per the agreement, Menarini plans to help Stemline to build a strong foothold in the U.S., and will also continue the development of Elzonris, a CD123 targeted therapy. Th...

Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder (BD) are most of the times difficult to distinguish. Schizophrenia is characterized by hallucinations, and delusions when a patient loses reality and feels detached. On the other hand, Bipolar disorder a person suffers from extreme phases of mood swings from sometimes depression t...

AstraZeneca has announced the licensing-out of two of its drugs Seroquel and Seroquel XR in Europe and Russia to Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH. According to the deal signed between the companies, AZ will receive an upfront payment of USD 178 Million, in addition to other payments upon achieving sales milestones...

Alkermes Gets FDA approval for Aristada Initio (aripiprazole lauroxil) as Part of  Schizophrenia Treatment Combination  Alkermes has announced that the U.S. FDA approved ARISTADA INITIO (aripiprazole lauroxil) for the initiation of ARISTADA (aripiprazole lauroxil), a long-acting injectable atypical antipsychotic f...

M&A activity of Sanofi and Bioverative for rare blood diseases Sanofi has strengthened its position in hematology & speciality medicine by acquiring Bioverativ, Biogen hemophilia & blood disorders-focused company for USD 105 per share on March 8, 2018. This will increase Sanofi’s hemophilia portfolio for...

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals and the Duke Clinical Research Institute have expanded their collaboration to create the largest patient registry for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) The IPF-PRO Registry will be widened to cover 1500 patients spread over 45 clinical sites which will stimulate understand...