Keyword: cancer

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UK Rejects Keytruda as First Lung Cancer Option

06.03.2017 - Britain's health agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which has responsibility for assessing the cost-effectiveness of medical treatments, has decided...

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Cancer Research UK and HitGen in Pact

03.03.2017 - Cancer Research UK, its commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT) and Chinese life science company HitGen have entered into a license agreement to develop a novel class of...

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China Gets its First Generic Geftinib Drug

22.02.2017 - Chinese drugmaker Qilu Pharmaceutical has introduced a new targeted therapy generic cancer medicine, geftinib, which is claimed to be effective against non-small cell lung cancer...

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AstraZeneca Sells North American Zoladex Rights

21.02.2017 - AstraZeneca has agreed to sell the commercial rights for its cancer treatment Zoladex in the US and Canada for $250 million upfront to private equity-backed TerSera Therapeutics –...

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Tusk in UK Cancer Collaboration

16.02.2017 - The UK’s Tusk Therapeutics is joining Cancer Research Technology (CRT) and University College London (UCL) to research, develop and commercialize an antibody-based therapeutic...

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Q BioMed in Liver Cancer Collaboration

10.02.2017 - US biomedical company Q BioMed has entered into an agreement with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) and India’s Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology to develop a...

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ACC Launches Website Critical of IARC

06.02.2017 - American Chemistry Council (ACC), the association representing US chemical producers, has launched a public campaign aimed at debunking claims made by the Lyon, France-based...

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UK Said Cutting Costs for Expensive Drugs

30.01.2017 - About 20% of all new drugs will be rationed under tighter cost-cutting plans in the UK’s National Service (NHS), according to reports, which suggest that patients who suffer from...