Costco’s El Camino Real store, based in San Francisco, California, is recalling about 39,755 pounds of rotisserie chicken products over concerns of Salmonella Heidelberg contamination, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food ...
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued an alert on Foster Farms' raw chicken products over concerns that they are linked to illness caused by strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. The ...
US-based biopharmaceutical company NovaRx will present the results from the Phase III trial of Lucanix (belagenpumatucel-L) post-frontline maintenance therapy in non-small cell lung cancer at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) ...
Tags: Novarx, Therapeutic Vaccine Trial
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 ...
Tags: Breast Cancer Drug
Cancer Research Technology (CRT), Cancer Research UK's technology development arm, has signed a multi-project alliance agreement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA) to research and develop new cancer drugs, which will help in ...
ICU Medical has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its ChemoLock needlefree closed system transfer device (CSTD). The CSTD is approved for pharmacy applications (product code ONB), as well as patient ...
Tags: ICU Medical, FDA Approval
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 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the third drug to be offered in the new BD Simplist line of ready-to-administer prefilled generic injectables. The third BD Simplist product to be introduced includes Ondansetron ...
GeneDx, a US-based genetic testing laboratory, has introduced a new suite of genetic tests for inherited cancer, including breast and colon cancer. To be marketed under OncoGeneDx brand, the new suite of genetic tests include a 26-gene ...
Tags: Genetic Tests, Inherited Cancer
Clearance, an AngioDynamics company, has received the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its BioFlo Port with Endexo technology, Clearance to the accumulation of platelets and thrombus. The BioFlo Port is a ...
The European Commission has granted additional indication for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Tyverb (lapatinib) in combination with trastuzumab for adult patients with overexpress HER2 (ErbB2), with hormone receptor-negative (HR-) metastatic ...
Tags: European Commission
The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries' Lonquex (lipegfilgrastim) to commercialize in all twenty eight countries of the European Union plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. ...
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has submitted an application seeking approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of a variation for Votrient (pazopanib). The approval is for additional indication for Votrient as the maintenance treatment of ...
Specialty pharmaceutical company Sagent Pharmaceuticals has introduced an antineoplastic agent, Docetaxel Injection Concentrate, in three preservative-free vial presentations. Designed to help reduce medication errors, the product ...
Tags: Sagent, Medicine errors
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 ...
Tags: Rexahn Pharma, Oncology Drug