Focus Products Group International, which owns the West Bend brand name, is recalling several hot cocoa drink makers today. According to the Food and Drug Administration, the small appliances have internal parts that may leach heavy metal ...
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Takeda Pharmaceuticals has entered into a deal with US-based DSI Renal for the supply of its OMONTYS (peginesatide) injection, designed for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adult patients on dialysis. ...
Tags: OMONTYS injection, anemia, chronic kidney disease, CKD patients
Nothing can sour a new pet-owner relationship like a shredded shoe or a chewed-up remote control. A dog's appetite for inedible objects can be exasperating and dangerous. Animal behavior consultant Arden Moore, author of "What Dogs Want: ...
AMAG Pharmaceuticals has submitted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for intravenous (IV) use of Feraheme injection, to FDA. The company is seeking approval for the label expansion of Feraheme to include all iron deficiency ...
Tags: Feraheme Injection, AMAG, SNDA
Medgenics has filed an investigational new drug (IND) application with the FDA to initiate a Phase IIb multi-center, 100-patient clinical trial. The trial is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of sustained erythropoietin (EPO) ...
Pluristem Therapeutics, a developer of placenta-based cell therapies, is seeking FDA orphan drug status for its PLacental eXpanded (PLX) cells for the treatment of aplastic anemia. Pluristem earlier received an orphan drug status from the ...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA)has started collecting and testing wild salmon off the coast of British Columbia to determine the presence of three salmon diseases:infectious hematopoietic necrosis,infectious pancreatic necrosis ...
Tags: CFIA, diseases, wild salmon, contagious
Affymax has earned $50m development milestone payment from Takeda Pharmaceutical Company for the US approval of OMONTYS (peginesatide) injection. The company has also received another $5m milestone payment, which was triggered by the ...
Medgenics Medical Israel (MMI) has received government grant worth NIS8.1m (approximately $2.2m) from the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor of Israel. The grant will support R&D expenses for ...
Tags: government grant, Biopump platform technology, hepatitis
Takeda Pharmaceuticals America (TPA) has signed a contract to supply Omontys (peginesatide) injection to Fresenius Medical Care North America and certain of its affiliates. Omontys (peginesatide) injection is a synthetic, pegylated, ...
The EMA Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the approval of AMAG Pharmaceuticals' ferumoxytol, an iron deficiency anemia (IDA) therapy. The intravenous (IV) iron therapy, indicated for the treatment of ...
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The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for AMAG Pharmaceuticals' intravenous iron therapy, ferumoxytol, to treat iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. The marketing authorization is ...
Tags: AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Intravenous Iron Therapy, chronic kidney disease
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company has introduced AMAG's iron deficiency anaemia drug, ferumoxytol, in the Europe. Ferumoxytol is launched as Rienso in Europe and is called as Feraheme in the US. Both the US and European regulatory bodies ...
Tags: Anaemia Drug, adult chronic kidney disease, treatment with Rienso
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted orphan drug status to AlphaCore Pharma's ACP-501 (rhLCAT) to treat familial LCAT deficiency (FLD). FLD causes lipid deposition in eyes, red blood cells and kidneys which can lead to corneal ...
Tags: EMA, orphan drug status, AlphaCore FLD
Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA (TPUSA) and Affymax have announced supply agreement with US Renal Care for Omontys (peginesatide) injection in the US. Under the agreement, US Renal Care will purchase Omontys for use within its organization and ...
Tags: Medicine, Omontys Injection