Keyword: multiple sclerosis

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EU Approves Merck KGaA MS Tablets for Marketing

29.08.2017 - The European Commission has granted marketing authorization for Merck KGaA’s Cladribine tablets for treatment of highly active relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) in the EU 28, in...

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Breakthrough Drug Status for Roche and AstraZeneca

19.02.2016 - Major drug makers Roche and AstraZeneca have been granted breakthrough therapy designations (BTD) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatments in multiple sclerosis...

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Biogen to Cut Staff, Focus on Oral MS Drug

27.10.2015 - Biogen has announced a corporate restructuring scheme that will lead it to terminate a number of drug pipeline programs while cutting the workforce by 11% up to the end of this...

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Chances and Hurdles for Biosimilars

07.10.2015 - With biosimilars the pharmaceutical industry and health-care business move into a relatively young discipline with high sales potential. The follow-up drugs of biopharmaceuticals...

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Celgene Offers $7.2 Billion for Receptos

17.07.2015 - US biotech firm Celgene has agreed to pay $7.2 billion, or $232 per share, to acquire compatriot Receptos, a biotech company that makes a potential blockbuster drug to treat...

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Novartis’s Gilenya Fails on Primary Progressive MS

02.12.2014 - In a late-stage study involving 970 people with primary-progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS), the Novartis drug Gilenya (fingolimod) failed to show any significant advantages over...

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Merck Serono Extends Italian Alliance for Neurodegenerative Diseases

25.07.2014 - Merck Serono, the biopharmaceuticals arm of Germany's Merck KgaA, is extending by two years its 10-year R&D cooperation with San Raffaele University & Research Hospital for...

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Biogen's New MS Drug Maintains Efficacy Long Term -Study

07.10.2013 - Biogen Idec's hot-selling new multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera remained effective for patients taking the medicine for at least four years with no new safety problems, according...