The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Nplate (romiplostim), the first product that directly stimulates the bone marrow to produce needed platelets in patients with a rare blood disorder that read more »
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AstraZeneca and Abbott announced today that they have entered into an agreement for Abbott to promote AstraZeneca's CRESTOR® (rosuvastatin calcium), a medication used along with diet to reduce high read more »
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Pfizer Inc announced that, in patients with heart disease, type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, Lipitor® (atorvastatin calcium) 80 mg significantly reduced the risk of major cardiovascular eve read more »
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Roche announced that the Arthritis Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by a near unanimous (10-1) vote recommended approval of Actemra (tocilizumab), a novel interleukin read more »
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Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of China has approved Nexavar® (sorafenib) tablets for the treatment read more »
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Finalising a review of the safety of moxifloxacin-containing medicines for oral use, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has concluded that these medicines should only be prescribed in the treatment read more »
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Bayer HealthCare AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that The New England Journal of Medicine published landmark results of a Nexavar study in liver cancer. The data of the Phase III trial sh read more »
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Pfizer announced that new statin users who took Lipitor® (atorvastatin calcium) were significantly more likely to stay on their medication compared to those who took simvastatin, according to an obse read more »
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GlaxoSmithKline provided the following update regarding its application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval of Cervarix®, its vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. read more »
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GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix TM, was confirmed as the UK Department of Health's vaccine of choice for its national human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme. Th read more »
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