US-based pharmaceutical firm Merck has received Breakthrough Therapy designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its investigational oral combination regimen MK-5172/MK-8742 for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus ...
US-based primary care system Community Health Center (CHC) is expanding its telehealth program to health centers in Delaware under an extension for community healthcare outcomes (ECHO) project. Project ECHO uses video-conferencing and ...
The Indonesian Ministry of Health is planning to launch a new immunization program and a pentavalent vaccine for infants two months old to one year. Produced by Bio Farma, the pentavalent vaccine is a combination of five antigens ...
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Pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will roll out two-dimensional (2D) barcodes on the inner containers as well as outer boxes for most of its US vaccines. According to the company, a 2D barcode is a small square ...
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India has partly suspended patents granted to Roche Holding for its breast cancer drug Herceptin, over issues that the patents had not been filed in accordance with the laid down process. An article published in Swiss newspaper Schweiz am ...
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US-based biotechnology company Life Technologies is expanding its global food safety solutions range with the worldwide distribution of its RT-qPCR assays. The assays are designed to detect Norovirus GI and Norovirus GII, Hepatitis A, and ...
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Abbott has introduced FDA-approved hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotyping test for patients in the US. The completely automated RealTime HCV Genotype II test determines the specific type or strain of the HCV virus present in the blood of an ...
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Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) has become the first clinical reference laboratory to offer Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan HCV Test, v2.0, a viral load assay for hepatitis C virus. Designed with enhanced ...
Biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has obtained priority review status for Sofosbuvir new drug application (NDA) from the FDA for the treatment of hepatitis C infection (HCV). The investigational product is an oral nucleotide ...
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Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) has acquired all the assets of Evivar Medical (Evivar), which includes its Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and C (HCV) web-based decision support tools and the associated viral genome analysis systems (SeqHepB ...
Yes. Acetaminophen (Tylenol and generic) is actually a better choice than Advil, Motrin, or related drugs for people who take a daily aspirin but need relief for minor aches and pains. While a daily low-dose aspirin can slash the risk of ...
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has acquired a Switzerland-based vaccines company, Okairos, for €250m in cash to boost its existing vaccine platform technology expertise and to continue developing the next generation of vaccines. Under the ...
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Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceuticals unit Janssen is planning to submit more than 10 new products for regulatory approval and extend the brand pipeline of 25 existing drugs by 2017. The late stage products to be submitted for approval ...
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Yes. Not all pharmacies offer the full array of vaccines recommended for overseas travel. But if one in your area provides that service, it's certainly a safe, convenient way to get the immunizations you need to help you stay healthy on ...
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Roche Group recently declared cooperation with Ascletis in joint developing Danoprevir that is used for curing Hepatitis C, marking beginning of cooperative research and development, production and sale of new drugs in China with local ...