Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical division of Merck, today announced that the European Commission has approved the Type II variation to amend the Erbitux® (cetuximab) product information, updating the indication for Erbitux to the ...
Ventana Medical Systems (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, has announced that its Ventana HER2/neu (4B5) rabbit monoclonal primary antibody assay is now a companion diagnostic for detecting HER2 protein expression for patients who, in ...
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VBL Therapeutics has secured fast track status from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its lead oncology drug VB-111, for prolongation of survival in patients with Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme (rGBM). VB-111 was already ...
Germany-based Bayer HealthCare and US-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals have announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Nexavar (sorafenib), an oral multi-kinase inhibitor, for the treatment of patients with ...
Pfizer has secured regular approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Xalkori (crizotinib) capsules to treat patients with metastatic ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The approval was based on ...
A new study out of California has identified some practical steps that men can take to avoid developing prostate cancer, and all of them involve making simple dietary changes. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco ...
Bayer HealthCare has received marketing authorization from the European Commission (EC) for its Xofigo injection for the treatment of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral ...
Transgenomic, a global biotechnology company, and US-based PerkinElmer have entered into a collaboration agreement for marketing and distributing Transgenomic’s line of molecular diagnostic oncology products in territories outside the ...
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has announced the nationwide availability of QIAGEN’s therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR kit, a new US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved companion diagnostic for certain colorectal ...
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Boehringer Ingelheim has submitted a marketing authorisation application to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the approval of its oral triple angiokinase inhibitor nintedanib. Nintedanib to be used in combination with docetaxel is ...
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US-based biopharmaceutical firm Tracon Pharmaceuticals has started dosing in a Phase Ib clinical of TRC105 for the treatment of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. The trial evaluates the combination of TRC105 and a standard ...
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Swiss drugmaker F. Hoffmann-La Roche has announced that the EU’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion recommending authorization of Kadcyla as a single agent for the treatment of adult ...
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Dfine, a manufacturer of spinal disease treatment devices, has obtained CE Mark approval for its STAR tumor ablation system, designed to treat painful metastatic spinal tumors. The STAR tumor ablation system uses radiofrequency (RF) ...
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Celgene has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its drug 'Abraxane' to treat patients with late-stage adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Adenocarcinoma is a sub-type of exocrine tumors which accounts for ...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has received an application from Bayer HealthCare for marketing authorization of its oral multi-kinase inhibitor, regorafenib, for the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GlST). ...