The European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has confirmed its opinion for European marketing authorization of Pfizer's Xeljanz (tofacitinib citrate). Xeljanz is a novel, oral Janus kinase ...
American Regent, a subsidiary of a Daiichi Sankyo Group Company named Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, has won USFDA approval for Injectafer (ferric carboxymaltose injection) for the treatment of iron deficiency anemia (IDA). A parenteral iron ...
Tags: Iron Deficiency Anemia, Medicine
Zynex, a provider and developer of non-invasive medical devices for electrotherapy and stroke rehabilitation, neurological diagnostics and cardiac monitoring, has inked a strategic sales, marketing and distribution agreement with US-based ...
Life Care Medical Devices, a medical device maker, has inked an exclusive agreement with Malesa MD&D for the distribution of its Keyhole Cup Laparoscopic Access Device in Saudi Arabia. Malesa MD&D is a leading healthcare and consumer ...
HistoGenetics, a New York-based biotech firm specialized in Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing services and Sequenced-Based Typing (SBT), has selected Illumina's MiSeq sequencing system for use in its CLIA laboratory. Illumina's MiSeq ...
US-based medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific has introduced its next generation intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) catheter, called OptiCross, in the US, Europe and Japan following regulatory approvals. OptiCross is designed to be ...
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UK-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has postponed plans to increase its stake from 46.4% to 75% in GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria (GSK Nigeria), proposed under a scheme of arrangement. The minority shareholders considered the deal ...
Hologic, a developer of medical imaging systems and surgical products, has received approval for its Aptima HPV assay for use on its fully-automated Panther system from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The assay is a nucleic ...
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UK health and social care guidance body NICE has again rejected GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) belimumab (Benlysta) as an add-on therapy in adults with active, autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Commenting on the second ...
AbbVie's Humira (adalimumab), a rheumatoid arthritis drug, has been rejected by the US FDA advisors for use in the treatment of a spinal inflammatory disease, non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis. The FDA's Arthritis Advisory ...
Scientists from two different fields – textile research and neurosciences – are working together to understand how we perceive, feel or evaluate clothing on our skin. The researchers use special measuring devices in the ...
Tags: Textiles, textile research
IMRIS has secured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510K approval to market its VISIUS iCT, a ceiling-mounted intraoperative computed tomography (iCT). VISIUS iCT serves a surgical theater, providing personalized dose management along ...
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Biopharmaceutical development company Chelsea Therapeutics has announced the US FDA acceptance of Northera (droxidopa) new drug application (NDA) resubmission to treat symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension (NOH). The company is ...
US-based Cook Medical has introduced Biodesign ENT Repair Graft, which acts as an adjunct to help in the healing process following nasal and sinus mucosal surgery. The latest Biodesign offering from Cook Medical's Otolaryngology-Head and ...
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WuXi AppTec (WuXi), a supplier of R&D services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries, has selected Instem, a provider of IT solutions to the global early development healthcare market, for Provantis Portal ...
Tags: Monitoring Solution, Medicine