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 ...
Janssen Research & Development is seeking US FDA approval for the use of Simeprevir (TMC435) in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin to treat genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C in adults. The company submitted a new drug ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, pegylated interferon
Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer has decided to discontinue the development of filibuvir, an experimental hepatitis C drug, following a strategic review and capital allocation. The drug, which is in mid-stage clinical testing, is facing ...
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US-based biopharmaceutical company Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals has closed a $10.5m Series A financing round from Brock Securities with Gilford Securities as a participator. The firm is planning to invest the fund in its Phase I clinical ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved labeling changes to Bristol-Myers Squibb's Reyataz (atazanavir), an antiretroviral medication. The label will now include warnings about kidney and gall stones in addition to updated ...
Inovia Pharmaceuticals will move its hepatitis C DNA vaccine into a phase 1/11a clinical trial by the end of 2013. The advancement of this work is based on exceptional results of a preclinical study, which showed for the first time that a ...
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bioMérieux has recently launched the new CE-marked VIDAS® Anti-HCV test for the detection of antibodies to the hepatitis C virus (HCV), extending the Company’s current product range to provide a complete test menu for ...
Tags: Anti HCV Test, Viral Hepatitis, immunoassay platform, fluorescent assay
The adverse side effects of some medications for hepatitis C can now be observed and studied in laboratory conditions, using petri dishes and test tubes, thanks to the development of a new method by US researchers. A team led by Craig ...
Tags: anti-HCV treatments, hepatitis, disease, PLOS Pathogens
The Israel's Ministry of Health (MOH) has granted approval to Medgenics to initiate two Phase I/II clinical trials of a subcutaneous autologous tissue implant, INFRADURE, in patients with hepatitis C. The objective of the trials is to ...
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Health Canada has approved Roche's fully automated test, designed to assess a patient's viral load of cytomegalovirus (CMV). The COBAS AmpliPrep / COBAS TaqMan CMV assay is the first approved test, which is standardized to the WHO ...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Ligand Pharmaceuticals' partner, has gained FDA priority review status for the supplemental new drug application for Promacta to treat thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection. ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation for Idenix Pharmaceuticals' IDX719 to treat chronic hepatitis C infection (HCV). IDX719 is an NS5A inhibitor that demonstrated pan-genotypic activity in a recent ...
Tags: IDX719, HCV, chronic hepatitis C infection
Bristol-Myers Squibb, a biopharmaceutical company, has terminated the development of BMS-986094, an investigational NS5B nucleotide for the treatment of hepatitis C. Based on an ongoing assessment of patients in a Phase II study that the ...
Tags: BMS-986094, Bristol-Myers, hepatitis C, NS5B nucleotide
Hemispherx Biopharma has filed an amended NDA with ANMAT (Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica) for the use of Alferon N injection to treat Hepatitis C patients in Argentina. ANMAT has previously approved ...
Tags: Hemispherx Biopharma, Amended NDA, Alferon N Injection, ANMAT
Ansell, a developer of surgical products, has introduced GAMMEX non-latex antimicrobial surgical glove in Canada. The non-latex surgical glove is coated with antimicrobial chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG), which shows effectiveness against ...
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