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 data management solutions company MediSwipe has filed for a registered trademark for its new secure medical packaging concept ‘Mello Meal.’ The Mello Meal box packaging concept will be used at medicinal dispensaries ...
Tags: Mediswipe Files, Medical Packaging
Life science company Factor Bioscience has received the first patent for the reprogramming cells using RNA from the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), which is widely used in biological research and personalized medicine. Factor ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new regulation, under which products labeled gluten-free must contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten. The regulation has been issued in order to provide a uniform ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new regulation defining the term gluten-free for voluntary food labeling, in order to provide a uniform standard definition to help up to 3 million Americans who have celiac disease. ...
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Canada's Methanex is "making solid progress" on its plans to increase its global methanol production capacity by up to 1 million mt/year by the end of this year, CEO John Floren said in a statement late Wednesday. In New Zealand, the ...
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Pfizer’s Wyeth has consented to pay $491m in fine for unlawful marketing of its kidney drug Rapamune, an FDA-approved immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection in organ transplantation. In order to boost Rapamune sales, the ...
Tags: Pfizer Unit, Medicine
Perrigo Company has received final FDA approval for abbreviated new drug application for generic equivalent to cutivate lotion, 0.05% and begins immediate shipment of the product. Cutivate Lotion 0.05% (fluticasone propionate lotion, ...
Pharmaceutical research and development company Serina Therapeutics has partnered with the Scripps Research Institute to jointly develop polymer-antibody drug conjugates (Polymer-ADCs). Terms and financial details of the deal have not ...
Tags: Polymer-Antibody Drug, Medicine
The US FDA Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee (NDAC) has recommended approval of Sanofi's Nasacort AQ nasal spray (triamcinolone acetonide) for over-the-counter use in the country. Nasacort AQ Nasal Spray is indicated to treat the ...
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The National Development and Reform Commission is pestering and probing 60 foreign drug makers regarding the prices at which they sell their wares in China. Scrutiny of the foreign drug sector in China made headlines in June when ...
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US generics drug maker Actavis has rolled out new formulations of Fioricet (butalbital, acetaminophen and caffeine capsules, USP) and Fioricet with Codeine (butalbital, acetaminophen, caffeine and codeine phosphate, USP). Both medicines ...
PTS, a manufacturer of the CardioChek family of point-of-care diagnostic products, has unveiled its new analyzer called CardioChek Plus, designed to check lipids and glucose in blood simultaneously. The CardioChek Plus provides rapid ...
Tags: Blood Simultaneously, Medicine
The European Commission has granted orphan drug designation to BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ stem cell therapy NurOwn to treat Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. NurOwn consists of autologous ...
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Depomed has acquired US and Canadian rights to Archimedes Pharma’s Lazanda (fentanyl) nasal spray for $4m in cash for pain management in cancer patients (BTPc) 18 years of age and older. Leveraging Archimedes patented PecSys drug ...
Tags: Pharma's Lazanda, Medicine