Keyword: drug approval

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Trump Discusses Issues With Drugmakers

01.02.2017 - In a meeting at the White House on Jan. 31, new US president, Donald Trump, held out both a carrot and a stick to pharmaceutical producers. The industry will “have to “get prices...

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A New Pathway

12.09.2016 - Reducing nitro groups to amines is a well-known and frequently applied method, which is useful in the synthesis of various classes of compounds of interest in the pharmaceutical...

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UK Health Agency Blesses Merck Cancer Drug

10.09.2015 - UK drug cost-effectiveness agency National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE, has approved the use of US drugmaker Merck’s Keytruda for treatment of certain cases of...

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Amgen Gets Nod for New Cholesterol Drug

31.08.2015 - Amgen has won US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Repatha, the second medicine in a new class of biologics recently greenlighted by the agency and claimed to reduce...

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FDA Approves new Boehringer COPD Drug

01.06.2015 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim's Stiolto Respimat (tiotropium bromide and olodaterol) once-a-day inhalation spray for...

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EU Approves Sales of Sanofi’s New Diabetes Drug

29.04.2015 - The European Commission has granted marketing authorization in Europe for Sanofi's Toujeo, a next-generation basal insulin for the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus...

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Japan’s Eisai Gets EU Nod for Thyroid Cancer Drug

31.03.2015 - The EU's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the use of Eisai's Lenvima (Lenvatinib mesylate) drug for treating adults with progressive, locally...

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New J&J Anti-depressant Related to "Special K" Party Drug

23.05.2013 - Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a new type of treatment for patients with depression that have failed to benefit from standard...