US-based Aquavit Pharmaceuticals has inked a definitive licensing agreement with U-Bio Med, a South Korea-based medical technology device firm, for the global commercialization of its microneedle device technology. The agreement offers ...
Tags: Aquavit Inks, U-Bio Med, Microneedle Device Technology
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Board of Directors approved the launch of a new food traceability center designed to protect and improve the global food supply. The Global Food Traceability Center will serve as an authoritative, ...
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Clinical-stage pharmaceutical company Adynxx has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) fast track designation for its AYX1 injection, which is used for prevention of chronic pain. In a five-cohort, dose-escalating study ...
Israeli Drug discovery company Compugen is developing a Predictive Structural Biology (PSB) infrastructure platform to identify the functional interaction sites of proteins, which are useful in the rational design of novel drugs. Intended ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the imports of salmon produced in Chile by Norwegian multinational firm Marine Harvest after a carcinogenic chemical known as crystal violet was detected in a shipment. Crystal violet ...
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Surgical device company Misonix has obtained clearance to market and sell its BoneScalpel, an ultrasonic osteotome system, in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of the PRC has granted ...
Tags: BoneScalpel, Health, Medicine
Specialty pharmaceutical company Iroko Pharmaceuticals has announced the FDA acceptance for New Drug Application (NDA) filing of lower dose submicron Indomethacin, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. The proposed indication of the ...
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Hagee Foods, dba Penny's Salsa, is recalling hummus products in the US as they may be contaminated Listeria monocytogenes. The retail hummus products come in 8 oz. and 12 oz. clear plastic packages and were distributed to retail stores ...
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Mylan Pharmaceuticals has introduced Norethindrone Tablets USP, 0.35mg, which is the generic version of Watson Laboratories' (now Actavis) Nor-Q.D. tablets, 0.35mg for 28-day cycle, for the prevention of pregnancy in the US. The ...
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Viennese biotech company Marinomed Biotechnologie has licensed the rights of five drugs to a global pharmaceutical firm for the Chinese market. The drugs include three antiviral nasal sprays against common cold, influenza and colds in ...
Steels know the parameters of the project announced in the spring of "Voronezhmedsteklo" for the construction of the Voronezh region in a full production cycle for the production of glass of the first hydrolytic class for the pharmaceutical ...
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Clinical stage biopharma company Rexahn Pharmaceuticals has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), for a novel drug delivery platform, which targets the delivery of chemotherapeutic ...
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Pathogenica and Illumina have entered into an agreement to co-market a new version of the former’s HAI BioDetection kit in the Asia Pacific region. Currently under development and compatible with Illumina's MiSeq benchtop sequencing ...
Tags: Biodetection Kit, Medicine
Mott Corp has appointed Boris Levin as the company's new president and CEO, replacing Roger Klene who is retiring after 18 years. Levin was previously group president of Nypro Healthcare, serving the drug delivery, diagnostics, and surgical ...
Tags: Processing Machinery, Health, Medicine
Oncology-focused drug development company Curis has obtained the conditional approval for Erivedge (vismodegib) to treat adult patients with symptomatic metastatic basal cell carcinoma (BCC) or locally advanced BCC inappropriate for surgery ...