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15 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Patients are set to benefit from more rapid access to the most cost-effective treatments after proposed changes to the NICE drug evaluation process were approved...
15 March 2017 | By Steve Bremer, Managing Editor
Tumour therapy, particularly in the case of multidrug resistant cancers, could be significantly enhanced by using siRNA to down-regulate the production...
15 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
This collaboration is aimed at jointly developing and commercialising new liquid biopsy RAS biomarker tests for metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)...
15 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Moderate-to-severe psoriasis patients treated with Cosentyx (secukinumab) rapidly regain clear skin following relapse during a treatment pause...
14 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
A new health economic analysis of two Phase 3b trials has demonstrated that Novo Nordisk's Tresiba is a cost-effective option for diabetes...
14 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Junior Editor
Sandoz, a Novartis division, presented data for its proposed biosimilar adalimumab, GP2017, showing that their Phase III study met its primary endpoint...
13 March 2017 | By Wickham Labs
Wickham Laboratories Ltd will exhibit on Stand 309 at the Making Pharmaceuticals Conference on the 25th – 26th April 2017...
10 March 2017 | By Steve Bremer, Managing Editor
Representatives from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) met with medicines regulators from Africa last week to discuss how to improve the availability of high quality, safe and effective medicines to patients in countries beyond Europe. One of the tools discussed was the scientific assessment of medicines or vaccines for use…
9 March 2017 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
EFPIA, EBE and IFPMA issue joint guidance for prescribers on switching between original reference biologics and biosimilars...
8 March 2017 | By GBI Research
A substantial number of first-in-class products in the head and neck cancer pipeline will reach the market over the coming decade, which could potentially transform the clinical and commercial landscape, according to business intelligence firm GBI Research.
Newest spectrometer from Ocean Optics offers Ethernet operation, speed, sensitivity and spectral buffering...
7 March 2017 | By Steve Bremer, Managing Editor
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is half way through a review of drugs approved and still available only through the old Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). In all cases so far where NICE has been able to make recommendations for routine NHS use, companies have reviewed and…
7 March 2017 | By Watson-Marlow
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) the world leader in peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, will be unveiling a host of products at INTERPHEX 2017 including a new bioprocessing pump. Visitors to booth 2833 will witness a step change in tangential flow filtration (TFF), virus filtration (VF) and high-performance…
7 March 2017 | By Steve Bremer, Managing Editor
The PwC report, commissioned by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and supported by the Association of the British Healthcare Industry (ABHI), the BioIndustry Association (BIA), and the British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA), shows that the average productivity of UK life sciences employees, expressed as gross value…
2 March 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
The European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted a positive opinion for Abbvie’s shorter, eight-week treatment of Viekirax (ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir tablets) + Exviera (dasabuvir tablets) as an option for previously untreated adult patients with geotype 1b chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)…
