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3 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
NICE has said eribulin, which is also called Halaven and made by Eisai, should be an option for people with locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer...
31 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche’s PD-L1 assay as a diagnostic to identify PD-L1 expression levels in patients considering treatment with Tecentriq (atezolizumab) for previously treated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The PD-L1 (SP142) assay is also indicated to identify patients with urothelial cancer (UC)…
20 October 2016 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
In this issue: Biosimilars, Informatics, Ingredients, PAT, HPLC, Microbiology, Product Showcase, Regulation, and much more...
20 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The recent $55M Series C financing will allow MicuRx to complete this Phase 3 study, and at a vital time with antibiotic resistance at an all time high...
12 October 2016 | By Particle Works
Particle Works – the nano- and microstructured material specialist – provides microencapsulation services for drug development applications, including controlled drug release, solubility enhancement or targeted drug delivery...
10 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
An immunotherapy drug has been hailed as a ‘game changer’ after being found to greatly improve survival for patients with relapsed head and neck cancer...
23 September 2016 | By BBI Solutions
BBI Solutions has launched Morffi™, a novel conjugate blocking technology that enhances signal intensity and improves the sensitivity of lateral flow immunoassays, at the Lateral Flow Test Development seminar in Seattle, USA, on the 20th September...
15 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
European Pharmaceutical Review caught up with Destiny Pharma’s CEO, Dr Love, for an exclusive interview to discuss why the pharmaceutical industry needs to radically change its approach to antibiotics in order to combat the threat of bacterial resistance…
13 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Following an article about the worrying presence of E.coli in UK supermarkets, our sister title New Food caught up with Emma Rose from Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics for an exclusive interview discussing the latest issues facing antibiotic resistance…
5 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The two-stage clinical trial studied the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of intra-nasally applied exeporfinium chloride gels. Part 1 yielded safety data in eight volunteers and allowed progression to Part 2 in 48 healthy volunteers with colonised nasal Staphylococcus aureus (SA) bacteria. Part 2 was double-blinded, placebo controlled, and investigated two…
1 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Roche’s study for tecentriq (atezolizumab) met its co-primary endpoints and showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) compared with docetaxel chemotherapy in people with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease progressed on or after treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy. Adverse events…
In this issue: Regulation, Environmental Monitoring, Drug Delivery; Microbiology, Track & race, Spectroscopy, HPLC, Mass Spectrometry, and much more...
Since the 1970s, the advent of biotechnology has resulted in the development and commercialisation of many therapeutic proteins, including antibodies and antibody fragments, for the treatment of human diseases. Examples include antibody treatments for autoimmune diseases (for example, adalimumab [Humira®] for rheumatoid arthritis), cancers (such as trastuzumab [Herceptin®] for breast…
16 August 2016 | By University of Florida
Scientists have found that using magnetic resonance imaging reveals areas where Parkinson’s disease causes progressive decline in brain activity, a biomarker discovery which will help to evaluate new experimental treatments to slow or stop the disease’s progression...
25 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The positive opinion is based on a pivotal Phase 3 study showing that Onivyde combined with chemotherapy significantly increased overall survival in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer...
